Items tagged with legalization
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| Portland legislator pushes bill to legalize, tax marijuana in Maine [19.04.2011] | Imagine walking into a neighborhood store to buy beer, wine, liquor and cigarettes. But on your way home you make one more stop – to buy marijuana, l ... |
| Ruling brings optimism for medical marijuana users [14.04.2011] | The Ontario Superior Court in Canada declared the rules that govern medical marijuana access and the prohibitions laid out in sections 4 and 7 of the ... |
| A sensible approach to marijuana legalization that protects young people [27.03.2011] | The marijuana-legalization debate can too quickly become polarized. Guest columnist Roger Roffman argues that both sides need to tone down the rhetor ... |
| Washington state should lead on marijuana legalization [16.02.2011] | Marijuana prohibition is more than a practical failure; it has been a misuse of both taxpayer dollars and the government's authority over the people. ... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ... |
| Happy toking [10.02.2011] | This week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t ... |
| Wash. politician proposes selling pot in liquor stores [29.01.2011] | A Washington State Democrat has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana and sell it in liquor stores. Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson filed House Bill 1550 o ... |
| Marijuana advocates debate a new legalization effort [03.01.2011] | The campaign for Proposition 19, which lost 54% to 46% in November, wants to start drafting a new initiative in the spring and to complete it by July ... |
| Ex-minister Bob Ainsworth: Make drugs legally available [16.12.2010] | Bob Ainsworth, a Home Office minister under Tony Blair, said successive governments' approaches had failed, leaving criminal gangs in control. The MP ... |
| One toke over the line [16.12.2010] | After an annual survey of teen drug use nationwide found that marijuana smoking is on the rise among eighth- through 12th-graders, Kerlikowske attrib ... |
| Calif. Pot Proponents Gird for 2012 [28.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls this month, marijuana-legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for ... |
| Legal marijuana: Not if, but when [16.11.2010] | One might have expected the principals of the Proposition 19 campaign to partially decriminalize marijuana possession and use to be a little chagrine ... |
| Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate [16.11.2010] | Drug use and abuse are social and pubic health issues. But these drug laws started as purity laws in a progressive effort to stop pharmaceutical comp ... |
| Prop 19 was only the beginning… [15.11.2010] | An interesting blog on Calitics, a leading progressive community blog for California politics: California voters came out in droves to support Propos ... |
| Backers of Legal Marijuana Find Silver Lining in Defeat of California Measure [13.11.2010] | Proposition 19, which would have legalized in California, received more votes than the Republican nominee for governor. It also received untold news ... |
| U.S. appeals court judge endorses legal marijuana [10.11.2010] | A U.S. federal appeals court judge says the United States should consider legalizing marijuana. Judge Juan Torruella tells a law school audience in P ... |
| What should we do about cannabis? [09.11.2010] | No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential f ... |
| Pot legalization advocates are undeterred by the defeat of Prop. 19 [07.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls last week, marijuana legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for 2 ... |
| Colorado groups look to legalize marijuana in 2012 [06.11.2010] | Colorado marijuana activists, undaunted by California’s failure to legalize the drug, said last week they are launching two separate campaigns to leg ... |
| Voters in many Massachusetts communities back loosening of marijuana laws [06.11.2010] | Voters in more than a dozen state legislative districts backed dramatic expansions to legal access to marijuana in Tuesday’s elections, and advocates ... |
| Prop. 19 backers plan new marijuana legalization effort [04.11.2010] | Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and r ... |
| Despite rejecting Prop. 19, Californians lean toward legalizing marijuana, poll finds [04.11.2010] | California voters rejected Prop. 19, but a post-election poll found that they still lean toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use and, if you ... |
| California's Proposition 19 Falls Short, but Moves the Marijuana Policy Debate Forward [03.11.2010] | The California ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana under state law was defeated at the polls Tuesday, garnering about 46 percent of ... |
| Measure to legalize pot is defeated in Calif after feds issue warnings, young voters stay home [03.11.2010] | California voters weren't high on a ballot measure aimed at legalizing marijuana and appeared to heed warnings of legal chaos and a federal showdown ... |
| Prop. 19 supporters say win or lose they've sparked a debate [02.11.2010] | The campaign's message was, win or lose, the initiative has stimulated widespread debate and shown that the nation's ban on marijuana is destined to ... |
| How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America [31.10.2010] | What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Sa ... |
| All Eyes on California [29.10.2010] | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in q ... |
| FT Editorial: High time to legalise marijuana [27.10.2010] | Just say no, the slogan says. But on November 2, California has the chance to say yes, at least to marijuana. Proposition 19 would legalise the produ ... |
| Soros: Why I Support Legal Marijuana [26.10.2010] | Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely us ... |
| Latin American leaders question move to legalize marijuana [26.10.2010] | The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legaliz ... |
| Just say yes to common sense on pot policy [26.10.2010] | With all the hand-wringing over a Democratic "enthusiasm gap," one effort to turn out young people at the polls this November is showing real energy ... |
| The case for California's Prop 19 [26.10.2010] | Over a dozen US states have already decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, and Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California are already h ... |
| An economic perspective on the legalisation debate: the Dutch case [26.10.2010] | Understanding the consequences of drug legalisation versus prohibition is important for policy. Most recently this subject has gained much political ... |
| Marijuana law would propel California into unknown territory [25.10.2010] | Vote yes on Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, and the unofficial state weed and largest cash crop will be controlled like alcohol, p ... |
| What the Feds Can Do About Prop 19 [25.10.2010] | Assume for a moment that California voters approve Proposition 19 on Nov. 2. The state will have just enacted a process for legalizing, regulating, a ... |
| 19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal [24.10.2010] | Prop 19, the CA initiative legalizing marijuana, benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the n ... |
| Marijuana and Democracy – All Eyes on California [22.10.2010] | “Democracy is the worst form of government,” as Churchill once put it, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Whatever else it should i ... |
| A federal-state showdown over pot [21.10.2010] | Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge ... |
| The drug legalization debate [17.10.2010] | Foreign minister Maria Angela Holguín’s statement of last Sunday 10 October is of great importance. According to this statement, Colombia should take ... |
| Holder promises to enforce U.S. drug laws if Prop. 19 passes [16.10.2010] | Stepping up the Obama administration's opposition to Proposition 19, the nation's top law enforcement official promised to "vigorously enforce" feder ... |
| The promise of legalization [16.10.2010] | People on both sides of the marijuana legalization debate have strong feelings about Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that promises t ... |
| Mexican waves, Californian cool [14.10.2010] | If California votes in favour of legalisation, Mexico would be wise to follow suit (the bottom would anyway fall out of its marijuana business). The ... |
| An altered state [14.10.2010] | Proposition 19 has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed. Back in 1972 a proposition to legalise the ... |
| Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico [13.10.2010] | The United States’ demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. So ... |
| Legalizing pot in California would hardly dent cartels' revenue, report says [13.10.2010] | Proposition 19, which would partially legalize marijuana in California, would do little to curtail the violent Mexican organizations that smuggle it ... |
| Legalizing Marijuana in California Will Not Dramatically Reduce Mexican Drug Trafficking Revenues [12.10.2010] | Legalizing marijuana in California will not dramatically reduce the drug revenues collected by Mexican drug trafficking organizations from sales to t ... |
| New Report: U.S. Government Data Demonstrates Failure of Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report, Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on c ... |
| US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabi ... |
| California Pot Legalization Wouldn't Trump Federal Law [06.10.2010] | Even if Californians vote next month to legalize marijuana, possession of the drug will still be a criminal offense under federal law, which trumps s ... |
| Drugs are a development issue - which is why we should legalise them [05.10.2010] | If there is a "war on drugs", this is it. Mexico is undergoing worse violence than has been seen in Latin America in decades. President Felipe Calder ... |
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