Tag: legalization

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January 8, 2013
01/08/2013
Open Letter To Sasha and Malia Obama

Open Letter To Sasha and Malia Obama

Dear Sasha and Malia, I’m sorry to have to write you like this and get you involved in a national discussion and all, but it seems your...
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January 8, 2013
01/08/2013
NORMLIZE CONGRESS: Marijuana Law Reform Heating Up in 2013

NORMLIZE CONGRESS: Marijuana Law Reform Heating Up in 2013

The votes this past November in Colorado and Washington to regulate marijuana for adults have sparked a fire of change that seems to be spreading across the...
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January 8, 2013
01/08/2013
Cannabis Legalization: What Will It Take? (Part II)

Cannabis Legalization: What Will It Take? (Part II)

Can legal attempts to change Cannabis Policy survive in the modern Legal system? In my last post on Cannabis Legalization I began by saying there is a legal...
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January 8, 2013
01/08/2013
New Bermuda Attorney General Wants Marijuana Law Debate

New Bermuda Attorney General Wants Marijuana Law Debate

Newly-appointed Bermuda Attorney General Mark Pettingill is calling for a debate about reforming the island nation’s marijuana laws. But he has stopped short of advocating any particular...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Colorado Task Force Considering Anti-marijuana Tourism Regulation

Colorado Task Force Considering Anti-marijuana Tourism Regulation

Some prohibitionists on a 24 member Colorado task force setup to help the governor and Legislature implement Amendment 64 are now trying ignore the will of Coloradan voters...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Tell Obama To ‘Just Say No’ to Joe

Tell Obama To ‘Just Say No’ to Joe

A White House online petition telling Obama to listen to the voters of Colorado and Washington about the future of cannabis legalization, not the famously anti-cannabis/pro drug war architect...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Recreational MJ Sales in CO is Still Illegal – and Dangerous

Amendment 64 has already legalized possession and use of marijuana for all adults. Many people have gone further, assuming that selling marijuana is no longer going to...
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January 7, 2013
01/07/2013
Mexico Considers Marijuana Legalization After Ballot Wins in US

Mexico Considers Marijuana Legalization After Ballot Wins in US

Mexico’s new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, opposes marijuana legalization, but he also told CNN recently that the news from Washington and Colorado “could bring us to rethinking the...
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January 4, 2013
01/04/2013
Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado is About to Find Out

Do Alcohol and Marijuana Mix? Colorado is About to Find Out

In the debate over what marijuana legalization means for Colorado, the best drug-policy brains in the nation say there is one question getting short shrift: If people...
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Negatives of Cannabis Legalization?

Negatives of Cannabis Legalization?

As 2012 ends and 2013 begins, I reflect back and think how the world has changed from just a year ago. Cannabis legalization is at the forefront of...
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Massachusetts’ Medical Cannabis Law Takes Effect

Massachusetts’ Medical Cannabis Law Takes Effect

Question 3, ‘An Initiative Petition for a Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana,’ took effect on Tuesday, January 1. Sixty-three percent of state voters approved the measure...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

This is the time of year when I take some time to reflect over the past twelve months and prepare myself for the opportunities that lay ahead...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
World is Gone Mad, According to Fantasia Barrino

World is Gone Mad, According to Fantasia Barrino

Apparently “THE WORLD IS GONE MAD,” according to Fantasia Barrino, the singer who won her fame by winning the third season of American Idol. A recent article...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Advocates of Industrial Hemp Point to Kentucky’s Past As Top Producer

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and Republican US Sen. Rand Paul are among those pushing to revive industrial hemp in the state. It’s ironic, Comer said in a...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

First Private Marijuana Clubs Open in Colorado

05:51pm At least two members-only recreational marijuana clubs opened in Colorado Monday, one in Denver and one in the small southern Colorado town of Del Norte,...
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January 1, 2013
01/01/2013
Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

Who Will Legalize Marijuana Next?

With Washington and Colorado having passed legal marijuana legislation, it’s only a matter of time before more states follow suit. A recent article at the Huffington Post...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Book Review: Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee

Book Review: Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee

When I first got Smoke Signals to review, I have to admit, I let it sit for a while.  I looked at the cover, the length and...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

Barney Frank: “We should press our advantage.”

I attended a progressive event with MPP’s Morgan Fox in D.C. last Tuesday, where Congressmen John Conyers (D-MI) and Barney Frank (D-MA) both spoke. Unsolicited — in...
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December 28, 2012
12/28/2012
Timeline: A History of Marijuana in California and the U.S.

Timeline: A History of Marijuana in California and the U.S.

This illustrated marijuana timeline runs from 1911, when Massachusetts became the first state to outlaw marijuana, to just this month, when President Obama said the recent legalization of recreational...
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Civil Forfeiture Laws: State Sanctioned Theft

Civil Forfeiture Laws: State Sanctioned Theft

I have written before about how dangerous and corrupting Civil Forfeiture Laws are. The Institute for Justice reports Judge Dan Pelligrini in Pennsylvania has gone so far as to call them...
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