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News and commentary on cannabis law and politics

December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

06:02pm The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, “On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans.” The author of...
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
LA Medical Cannabis Advocates Submit 70,000 Initiative Signatures

LA Medical Cannabis Advocates Submit 70,000 Initiative Signatures

A coalition of medical cannabis patients, providers, and organized labor submitted 70,000 signatures on Friday to qualify a voter initiative for the May ballot in Los Angeles. The Committee...
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012

AG Eric Holder Says Administration Will Announce Marijuana Policy Soon

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing the use of marijuana as “there is a...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Breaking the Taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo

Breaking the Taboo, Narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo

Breaking the Taboo, narrated by Morgan Freeman #BreakTheTaboo Breaking the Taboo is a must-see documentary arguing to end the failed War on Drugs (#BreakTheTaboo). Produced by Sam...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Austin Lawmaker Says Timing Right for Medical Marijuana Bill

Austin Lawmaker Says Timing Right for Medical Marijuana Bill

State Rep. Elliott Naishtat (D-Austin) has tried to pass legislation concerning medical marijuana in the past and plans on submitting a new bill in the upcoming 83rd...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

02:54pm A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, “Obama’s Pot Problem,” missed the mark on the federal preemption question — can the feds shut...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Feds Say City of Oakland Can’t Stop Medical Pot Crackdown

Feds Say City of Oakland Can’t Stop Medical Pot Crackdown

The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary. Harborside Health...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012

Medical Marijuana Moving in Czech Republic

11:21am The Czech Republic took a big step last week toward becoming the next European country to approve the use of medical marijuana. Last Friday, the...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Colorado Amendment 64 Signed Today by Governor Hickenlooper

Colorado Amendment 64 Signed Today by Governor Hickenlooper

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has quietly signed Amendment 64 into law today. Governor Hickenlooper has been unclear about when he will sign Amendment 64 into law, which...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Washington Could Become Pot Source for Neighbors

Washington Could Become Pot Source for Neighbors

As Washington state sets up a cannabis supply system (barring the Feds stepping in), it could become a greater source of pot for users in Oregon and...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top

Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top

At the dawn of the cannabis legalization epoch that was ushered in on election night when the commonsense-minded voters of both Colorado and Washington elected to end...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Obama’s Pot Problem

Obama’s Pot Problem

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed, or tell the DEA and DOJ...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Majority Says Feds Should Stay Out of Marijuana Legalization States

Majority Says Feds Should Stay Out of Marijuana Legalization States

10:42pm A slight majority of adults say the federal government should not attempt to enforce federal marijuana laws in states which have voted to legalize it,...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Sir Richard Branson: War on Drugs a Trillion-Dollar Failure

Sir Richard Branson: War on Drugs a Trillion-Dollar Failure

Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition; What do we have to...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Law Upheld

Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Law Upheld

Arizona’s medical marijuana law is not pre-empted by federal drug laws because it does not stop the federal government from enforcing its laws, a Superior Court judge...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Georgia Police Kill Armed Man During Marijuana Bust

Georgia Police Kill Armed Man During Marijuana Bust

04:35pm Police officers in Buford, Georgia, shot and killed a man who refused to drop his weapon after they encountered him as they investigated a report...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Is 12/6 the New 420? Reflections on Being Legal in Olympia, WA

Is 12/6 the New 420? Reflections on Being Legal in Olympia, WA

Cannabis is now legal for all adults over 21 in Washington State. I voted against Initiative 502 because I thought it was a bad law but I cannot...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Ithaca Mayor: Legalize Marijuana in New York

Ithaca Mayor: Legalize Marijuana in New York

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick has called on New York lawmakers to allow medical marijuana and consider legalizing marijuana in general.
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Cannabis Is Now Legal in Washington State

Cannabis Is Now Legal in Washington State

History was made in Washington on Election night when 55 percent of voters decided in favor of Initiative 502. And at 12am this morning, history was made once again. Today,...
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December 7, 2012
12/07/2012
Washington State’s Cannabis Legalization Explored in Detail on NPR

Washington State’s Cannabis Legalization Explored in Detail on NPR

On what sounded more like ‘National Pot Radio’ than good ol’ National Public Radio, a two-part series today on the morning and afternoon shows did a good...
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