Items tagged with US drug policy
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| The California desert town that plans to be 'a Mecca for marijuana' [01.12.2016] | Desert Hot Springs is the first Southern California city to legalise large-scale cannabis cultivation. With the drug becoming legal for recreational ... |
| Donald Trump adds another marijuana opponent to his Cabinet [28.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, a position that could offer ... |
| Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
| Donald Trump’s attorney general pick could destroy the recreational pot industry [21.11.2016] | Attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is a fervent foe of marijuana legalization. But if he were confirmed as President-elect Trump’s ... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co ... |
| Jeff Sessions could reverse years of progress on marijuana policy [17.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump has nominated hardline drug policy reform opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be Attorney General of the United Stat ... |
| Marijuana reform went 8 for 9 on the ballot this week [10.11.2016] | Marijuana reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest signal to date that the public is ready to embrace ... |
| Silver linings [09.11.2016] | One of the most striking juxtapositions of the 2016 U.S. elections is that on the same day that the nation elected to the presidency a candidate who ... |
| California scrambles to implement new recreational pot law [09.11.2016] | Passage of marijuana-legalization initiatives in California and other states this week has given momentum to a national movement to decriminalize pot ... |
| Marijuana legalization won big on Election Day. It will keep winning [09.11.2016] | In California voters approved legalization. The country’s most populous state and biggest economy will allow people to buy marijuana for recreational ... |
| Marijuana wins big on election night [08.11.2016] | California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational marijuana initiatives, and other states passed medical marijuana provisions, in what is tu ... |
| Obama: Federal prohibition not ‘tenable’ after state marijuana votes [04.11.2016] | President Obama says that federal laws banning marijuana will likely have to change if new states vote to legalize the drug on Tuesday. “The good new ... |
| The trend toward legalizing recreational marijuana [04.11.2016] | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she plans to vote in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana in California. "I will vote for it, but ... |
| 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? [30.10.2016] | Candi CdeBaca voted to legalize the free sale of marijuana in Colorado four years ago because she thought it would be good for her Denver neighborhoo ... |
| Alaska's first retail marijuana store set to open at 'high noon' two years after vote [28.10.2016] | A store in Alaska is to be the first in the state offering retail marijuana sales, with a grand opening scheduled for what the operators were calling ... |
| Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [27.10.2016] | The Boston Archdiocese is pouring $850,000 into a last-minute effort to defeat a state ballot measure to legalize marijuana, calling increased drug u ... |
| Election may be a turning point for legal marijuana [23.10.2016] | To the red-and-blue map of American politics, it may be time to add green. The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit dru ... |
| Inside big pharma's fight to block recreational marijuana [21.10.2016] | In August, the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics cited concerns for child safety when, with a $500,000 contribution, it became the largest do ... |
| Why is support for marijuana legalization hitting record heights? [20.10.2016] | A record number of American citizens support marijuana legalization, according to two new national polls, in a continuation of multi-year trend. Sixt ... |
| How our tax dollars are used to fund opposition to marijuana legalization, in a clear violation of ethics [19.10.2016] | This year the pharmaceutical, alcohol and prison food industries have all weighed in to oppose marijuana legalization initiatives across the country. ... |
| What’s next for kratom after the DEA blinks on its emergency ban? [16.10.2016] | Researchers and users of kratom were stunned by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of its stated plan to place the Southeast Asi ... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t ... |
| The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant after the Internet got really mad [12.10.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration is reversing a widely criticized decision that would have banned the use of kratom, a plant that researchers say ... |
| Americans’ support for marijuana legalization is now higher than ever [12.10.2016] | Five states will vote on whether to fully legalize marijuana in November. Supporters of those initiatives got some pretty good news: Support for mari ... |
| Pot stock hits record high as more U.S. states press ahead with legalization [11.10.2016] | As polls indicate California, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Arizona are poised to approve referendums dramatically expanding legal U.S. cannabis u ... |
| Marijuana's Moment [10.10.2016] | Measures to legalize and regulate the sale of cannabis are on the ballot in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada, and recent polls s ... |
| Congress calls out DEA for unilateral move to expand the war on drugs [25.09.2016] | A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are asking the Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its decision to place the herbal supplement kratom ... |
| Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 [25.09.2016] | Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday b ... |
| Mexico president following California marijuana vote - state lawmaker [14.09.2016] | Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately asked California lawmakers visiting Mexico abo ... |
| The DEA wants to ban another plant [14.09.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration has received a torrent of backlash from patients with chronic pain and former opiate users after announcing plans ... |
| Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs [13.09.2016] | The Senate and House Judiciary Committees met to discuss the status of the fledgling commercial marijuana industry. One of the largest topics of disc ... |
| An unprecedented number of states will vote on marijuana this fall [01.09.2016] | More states than ever will consider easing restrictions on marijuana use this November: Voters in five states will decide whether to fully legalize r ... |
| DEA’s sudden 'herbal heroin' ban triggers stiff resistance from kratom community [31.08.2016] | An increasingly popular plant product called "herbal heroin" by detractors is about to become illegal in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Admi ... |
| Seattle’s potential solution for heroin epidemic: Places for legal drug use [24.08.2016] | A task force established to combat a heroin epidemic in the Seattle metropolitan area has endorsed a strategy of establishing places where addicts wo ... |
| California voters will most likely legalize recreational marijuana this November [18.08.2016] | California's Proposition 64 would legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. No disrespect to Colorado or Washington or Alaska, but California’s ... |
| These are the States that might legalize pot next [17.08.2016] | This November, voters in five states will decide whether to authorize recreational use: Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Anothe ... |
| What makes marijuana users different from everyone else [13.08.2016] | A massive study published this month in the Journal of Drug Issues found that the proportion of marijuana users who smoke daily has rapidly grown, an ... |
| Did the DEA just kick open the door for the pharmaceuticalization of pot? [11.08.2016] | While much ink has been spilled over the last few days regarding DEA’s refusal to recognize marijuana as a medicine and its unwillingness to reclassi ... |
| Activists furious over DEA's refusal to recognise medical benefits of marijuana [10.08.2016] | Campaigners have reacted with dismay after the Obama administration refused to stop classifying marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use - e ... |
| DEA rejects attempt to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana [09.08.2016] | The Obama administration has denied a bid by two Democratic governors to reconsider how it treats marijuana under federal drug control laws, keeping ... |
| Gallup: More than 33 million American adults currently use marijuana [07.08.2016] | A new Gallup poll finds that percent of American adults who say they currently smoke marijuana has nearly doubled over the past three years. In 2013, ... |
| Marijuana legalization might be fix to nation’s opioid problems [27.07.2016] | Proponents of marijuana prohibition have long alleged that experimentation with pot acts as a “gateway” to the use and eventual abuse of other illici ... |
| The pot law that could be 'deal-breaker for the drug war' [04.07.2016] | California's pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote t ... |
| Pot legalization added to Democratic Party platform [26.06.2016] | Democratic Party leaders agreed to a new party plank calling for cannabis law reform in the U.S. The plank calls for states to be labs of democracy, ... |
| Who's funding the US cannabis industry? [23.06.2016] | Funding is one of the biggest challenges for the cannabis industry, which still exists in a legal grey area. Cannabis has been legalised for medical ... |
| Teen marijuana use in Colorado found lower than national average [19.06.2016] | Marijuana consumption by Colorado high school students has dipped slightly since the state first permitted recreational cannabis use by adults, a new ... |
| Time to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act [16.06.2016] | A recent memorandum by representatives of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to several U.S. senators indicates that the agency is prepar ... |
| The first big company to say it’s serving the legal marijuana trade? Microsoft. [15.06.2016] | As state after state has legalized marijuana in one way or another, big names in corporate America have stayed away entirely. Marijuana, after all, i ... |
| Cannabis in the capital: Federal haze [10.06.2016] | Since 2015 it has been legal to own, grow and use cannabis privately in Washington, DC. Generous souls are allowed to give small amounts to whomever ... |
| A deadly crisis: mapping the spread of America's drug overdose epidemic [25.05.2016] | America is in the midst of an unprecedented drug overdose epidemic. Nationally, overdose deaths have more than doubled over the past decade and a hal ... |
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