The Denver alt-weekly WestWord picked up on my article about Dr. Christian Thurstone, worried that the kids are getting “Higher and Higher” these days and before we know it, they’ll be shooting up THC.
The Denver alt-weekly WestWord picked up on my article about Dr. Christian Thurstone, worried that the kids are getting “Higher and Higher” these days and before we know it, they’ll be shooting up THC.
Older readers will remember the parody PSA on Saturday Night Live around 1976 where Chevy Chase rolls up a doobie, takes off his belt, ties of his arm, and repeatedly stabs the joint at his veins, as Dan Aykroyd intones “Why do you think they call it dope?” Dr. Christian Thurstone thinks it’s soon to be real.
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.
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.
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.
Patients that have cancer, glaucoma or HIV/AIDS in Oregon represent 6.7% of all patients or 4.6% of all conditions. But certainly, having those conditions could also result in some pain. So how many of these patients are qualifying only for pain, in absence of any other condition?
Increased blood THC concentrations are strongly associated with increased crash risk, but there is no direct correlation between driving impairment and THC concentration.
Denver activist uncovers editing by FOX affiliate to make marijuana driving simulator appear worse than it was; tactical advice on defeating the push for per se DUIDs; music by Jet Baker, Josh Belville.
Per se DUID is not going away and it will eventually pass. Give them something we like now or wait til the first big freeway wreck that can be tied to someone’s newly-legal recreational use and watch a standard we really hate get rammed through the legislature.
Colorado governor signs marijuana legalization into law; Paul Armentano from NORML opines on federal response to legalization efforts; Washington bar opens up to pot smokers; music by Louis Armstrong; Benny Goodman with Gene Krupa
Today, Gov. Hickenlooper officially proclaimed the Amendment to be law, so there was no way supporters could know when they would gather to celebrate the law going into effect like we did in Washington.
The Box Canyon isn’t just that medical marijuana gets stricter and that we’re driving our issue into the hands of Big Pharma. It’s also that we’ve intentionally divided our political base and created an interest group vested in keeping us in the medical marijuana canyon.
Oregon activists can’t wait four years and thousands of marijuana arrests later to legalize and there are now more deep pockets than just Peter Lewis who want in on the legal marijuana game.
According to the Drug Czar, if we legalize marijuana, pot smokers who didn’t smoke pot before because it was illegal and expensive will bypass the less-expensive, taxed, inspected, potent weed of multiple varieties sold in a professional, secure, legal store and buy it instead from a criminal with a limited supply who’ll give them a few bucks off the store price.
This presents a troubling development for American officials, because the United States has a long history of never violating any treaty it signs.
This morning a former narcotics cop delivered a letter signed by 73 current and former police officers, judges, prosecutors and federal agents to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him not to interfere with the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington State to legalize and regulate marijuana.
Rebecca Forbes from North Carolina describes her life’s journey from marijuana grower to imprisoned felon to soccer mom to medical marijuana patient in our Listen to Your Mother segment; Behind the Headlines on sales of “Colorado: First to Legalize” gear by opponents of Amendment 64; Rant: Drug Free Workplaces do NOT have to test for marijuana!; music by Dizzy Gillespie.
Amendment 64 legalization foe Kathleen Chippi has failed in her attempt to punish the campaign that legalized marijuana in Colorado.
60 percent of those surveyed in the West support the legalization of marijuana, with only 37 percent opposed.
The Cannabis Therapy Institute, whose members opposed Colorado’s Amendment 64, are now profiting by selling “First to Legalize” merchandise.
