Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Decriminalize pot, aldermen urge — but mayor says not so fast [02.11.2011] | Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he would not be rushed into decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana because doing so creates its o ... |
| Viewpoints: Patient safety is priority in medical pot policy [01.11.2011] | Recently, the California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians, the largest statewide physician organization in America, bold ... |
| Congress on Speed [01.11.2011] | If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by pre ... |
| California Medical Assn. support of marijuana legalization has doctors talking [31.10.2011] | The California Medical Assn.'s recent decision to support marijuana legalization has drawn mixed opinions from physicians and others. At the same tim ... |
| Rep. Sam Farr, House members question California pot club crackdown [31.10.2011] | Several members of California's congressional delegation are taking their concerns about a federal crackdown on the state's medical marijuana dispens ... |
| Justice Dept. memo writer is mum on pot crackdown [26.10.2011] | A high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official who wrote a memo saying state medical marijuana laws do not provide immunity from federal prosecution ... |
| Federal judge blocks Florida’s new law requiring that welfare applicants pass drug test [24.10.2011] | A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits on Monday, sayin ... |
| Obama's misguided crackdown on medical marijuana [24.10.2011] | Why is the U.S. government cracking down on medical marijuana, a $1.7 billion business — and one of the few that seems to be thriving in a moribund ec ... |
| Medical marijuana - lost in the haze of state law [23.10.2011] | Californians need to be honest with themselves: The marijuana industry that is flourishing in plain sight is not really about medicine. No question, ... |
| Editorial: Feds' pot crackdown bad medicine [21.10.2011] | In the design of America's founders, the states are supposed to be centers of democratic experiment. They're not supposed to be uniform. For example, ... |
| In a Strange About-Face, the President Tries to Hack Medical Marijuana Off at the Knees [20.10.2011] | The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by California's four U.S. Attorneys sent chills through the industry. It was a ... |
| Legalizing drugs isn’t the answer [20.10.2011] | Most of us can agree that current drug policy in North America is a disaster. The global war on drugs can’t be won. Locking up addicts in jail is bot ... |
| Backlash to Crackdown Grows [19.10.2011] | Marijuana activists in California are gearing up this week for a flurry of statewide protests during President Obama's October 25 visit to the Bay Ar ... |
| California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It? [19.10.2011] | Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that ... |
| 50% of Americans support legalizing marijuana: poll [18.10.2011] | An unprecedented 50 percent of Americans think it's high time that marijuana should become legal in the United States, according to a Gallup poll. Th ... |
| Federal crackdown on medical pot sales reflects a shift in policy [07.10.2011] | The Obama administration's crackdown on California's highly profitable medical marijuana industry represents a dramatic departure from the low-key app ... |
| Feds escalate efforts to close California pot shops [07.10.2011] | Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California, sending letters that warn landlords to stop sal ... |
| U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed [30.09.2011] | A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to ... |
| Four pot smokers get their stash from U.S. government under little-known program [28.09.2011] | For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around as part of a little-known program t ... |
| Cocaine's becoming king in Peru [24.09.2011] | For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That h ... |
| US teens smoke more pot than Dutch [21.09.2011] | A new study, What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System?, published in the journal Addiction earlier this month challenged the Unite ... |
| Medical pot OK in Seattle, in trouble in Spokane [18.09.2011] | The largest federal crackdown in the 13-year history of the state medical-marijuana law has sent Spokane's once-open medical-marijuana businesses div ... |
| America’s prisons: A catching sickness [03.09.2011] | Harsh laws for selling or possessing of drugs are a public-policy disaster. Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examine ... |
| Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm u ... |
| With few rules, pot dispensaries try policing themselves [26.08.2011] | In the absence of government regulation, the local medical-marijuana industry increasingly is trying to professionalize the industry with such self-po ... |
| Majority of Americans ready to legalize marijuana [09.08.2011] | Many Americans continue to believe that marijuana should be legalized, but are not supportive of making other drugs readily available, a new Angus Re ... |
| Medical marijuana: The Justice Department speaks – again [08.08.2011] | Medical marijuana suppliers complain that the Justice Department is tightening the federal government's approach to enforcement. That's a disingenuou ... |
| A miscarriage of justice on marijuana [04.08.2011] | As if America's highly-publicised "war on drugs" were not already facing a credibility gap, two US superior court judges – one in Washington, DC, ano ... |
| Federal judge rules Florida drug law unconstitutional [29.07.2011] | A federal judge has declared Florida's drug law unconstitutional, potentially throwing thousands of criminal cases into jeopardy. U.S. District Judge ... |
| Obama’s Drug Policy: Yet Another Broken Promise [28.07.2011] | When Obama first took office in 2009, he promised a drug policy more focused on public health. However, recent statements from the DEA and raids on m ... |
| The Pot Republic [26.07.2011] | The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it i ... |
| New California marijuana ballot measure starts circulating [25.07.2011] | A new marijuana legalization ballot measure was cleared Monday to start seeking petition signatures. But its proponents aren't affiliated with the Oa ... |
| Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging [24.07.2011] | Four decades ago, on 17 July 1971, President Richard Nixon declared what has come to be called the "war on drugs". Nixon told Congress that drug addi ... |
| Legal Marijuana in Arizona, but Not for the Sellers [22.07.2011] | Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative last November allowing medical marijuana in the state, but the result has been just the opposite of an o ... |
| New medical pot law in Wash. brings uncertainty [21.07.2011] | The uncertainty comes after lawmakers worked for months on a plan that would help clear up the state's medical marijuana laws. The Legislature approv ... |
| Seattle's Marijuana-Garden Ordinance: The New Don't Ask, Don't Tell [21.07.2011] | Like every section that's left of the mostly vetoed medical-marijuana-reform law that passed in April, section 403 is vague, confusing, and inadequat ... |
| New federal memo on medical marijuana stirs angst [18.07.2011] | In October 2009, medical marijuana advocates celebrated a U.S. Department of Justice memo declaring that federal authorities wouldn't target the lega ... |
| Seattle to license, tax medical marijuana gardens [18.07.2011] | The Seattle City Council unanimously passed rules Monday requiring that medical marijuana operations be licensed, obtain food-handling permits if the ... |
| Despite Legalization in New Jersey, Medical Marijuana Remains Out of Reach [17.07.2011] | In the last few months, officials in New Jersey, as well as several other states, have said that mixed signals from the Obama administration have lef ... |
| Medical Marijuana: A Science-Free Zone At The White House [15.07.2011] | President Obama came into office promising to reverse George W. Bush administration practices and elevate science over politics. He explicitly applie ... |
| Defending providers of medical marijuana [13.07.2011] | A committee of the Seattle City Council grappled Wednesday with a proposed ordinance for medical-marijuana cooperatives. It would be much easier for ... |
| U.S. rules that marijuana has no medical use. What does science say? [11.07.2011] | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruled that marijuana has "no accepted medical use" and should therefore remain illegal under federal la ... |
| U.S. decrees that marijuana has no accepted medical use [09.07.2011] | Marijuana has been approved by California, many other states and the nation's capital to treat a range of illnesses, but in a decision the federal go ... |
| Let states enact their own marijuana policies [06.07.2011] | Let's be clear: HR 2306, the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011, proposed by Reps. Barney Frank and Ron Paul, does not "legalize drugs" ... |
| Medical-pot shops feel heat amid new laws, federal prosecution warning [04.07.2011] | Colorado's medical-marijuana industry took a battering from all sides, as new laws restricting the businesses took effect and the Obama administratio ... |
| California medical marijuana growers face pressure [02.07.2011] | A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if ... |
| Beneath the underdog [01.07.2011] | The United States has exported a counter-productive and destructive model to Latin America through the drug war. This is made clear in Systems Overlo ... |
| Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You [01.07.2011] | For a few weeks now, medical marijuana activists have been waiting for Attorney General Eric Holder to "re-clarify" exactly what the Justice Departme ... |
| The Way Forward [30.06.2011] | Since time immemorial, Mexicans have argued that were it not for U.S. demand for illicit substances, Mexico would have a manageable drug problem. Mor ... |
| Let the states decide their own marijuana policies [28.06.2011] | The bipartisan measure -- H.R. 2306, the 'Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011' and sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank and ... |
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