Now, a new poll released in Oregon shows that the locals do seem to know more about the political climate for legalization here, with an astounding 57% of likely 2014 voters supporting a specific tax and regulate proposal for marijuana legalization.
Now, a new poll released in Oregon shows that the locals do seem to know more about the political climate for legalization here, with an astounding 57% of likely 2014 voters supporting a specific tax and regulate proposal for marijuana legalization.
For years now, we have been lobbying for marijuana legalization with frames like “treat marijuana like alcohol” and “tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol” and “marijuana is safer than alcohol”. Setting marijuana in a frame alongside alcohol has molded the public’s understanding of the drugs to think of them similarly.
KTVB has followed up on the story after being contacted by Patrick J. Kennedy of Smart Colorado – better known here as Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), the brainchild of drug czar acolyte Kevin A. Sabet.
How tragically absurd. If your child has access to a lethal machine that kills someone, it’s just an accident. If your child has access to a non-lethal plant that heals someone, it’s child endangerment
Four young boys, ages 11, 10, 6, and 5, have been taken by the State of Idaho Child Protective Services from their families. Three prominent marijuana activists are now fighting for their children and their freedom. If you can help financially support these brave activists, please visit http://rad-r.us/IdahoFund to donate.
I was thrilled to see SWAT being used for its actual purpose for once! Not serving marijuana warrants and drug warrants to overwhelmingly peaceful people who will be flooding Denver this 4/20 to experience freedom!
The Illinois House just voted 61-57 to pass the nation’s strictest medical marijuana bill, which would make Illinois the nineteenth state to legalize the use of limited amounts of marijuana under strict medical conditions.
Growing 30,000 marijuana plants means Uriel won’t see the outside world again until close to 2031. While he’s in prison, perhaps he’ll get to meet Marquise Montgomery.
I guess citing your statistical improvement from 1979 counts as a “Recent Accomplishment” if our frame of reference is the history of the United States. Since the DEA was created in 1971, I should think that “recent” would have to be within at least this century.
I can’t help but go back to that June night in the hotel room in Slidell, Louisiana, and ask, “If it had been a case of beer instead of pot and a pipe, wouldn’t the Hakken family still be together?”
The editorial board of the Oregonian to call on the Oregon Legislature to put a reasonable marijuana legalization proposal on the table for the voters in 2014. The only question now is whether Washington DC-based Marijuana Policy Project will mess that up.
I am seeking sponsors for the 420RADIO Effin’ NORML Tour. I will be doing my live weekday shows from the road, interviewing the everyday tokers in the not-so-pot-friendly-or-downright-hostile-to-marijuana states.
Senate Democrats had better heed the demographic and voting realities of the marijuana legalization issue or Republicans, desperate for younger and minority voters, will turn this into a social wedge issue in their favor.
Kleiman answers my questions about the economic effects of marijuana legalization at the state level, expressing that the cost to the retail customer should be about $40 to $50 per ounce.
New Jersey isn’t banning something based on what it is. They’re now banning things based on what they do.
Sharon Ravert is the executive director of Peachtree NORML and Georgia Moms for Marijuana. This weekend, she hosted the 1st Southern Cannabis Reform Conference in Atlanta in an events center near the campus of Georgia Tech. The Thursday before, she organized a press conference at the State Capitol that put the issue of marijuana legalization on the local CBS, ABC, and FOX evening news.
Activists from a coalition of marijuana legalization groups in Georgia rallied today at the State Capitol in Atlanta to bring awareness to the cause on the eve of the first annual Southern Cannabis Reform Conference.
To summarize, the Longview Police spent an unknown amount of man-hours investigating and setting-up people who had well below the legal plant limit for a collective, well below the marijuana limit for a collective, because they were selling marijuana, an activity that will be legal next year and is somewhat legal now for medical users, to people who would smoke and possess it, which is legal right now.
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Obama Administation is “still considering” its reaction to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington State.
Who are these former DEA heads and why would they oppose legal marijuana?
