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.
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.
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.
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.
The drug warriors of today are armed with a whole new set of talking points designed to reboot marijuana prohibition with a veneer of concern for addicts and children. We disarm the Top Five.
The Top Five Marijuana Stories of 2012; Ganja Jon and Wiz Kaliko join us for 2012 flashbacks and Cannabis Cup-winning dabs; music by Ian Lloyd
Charges have been dropped against the driver for vehicular manslaughter after he hits and kills a careless pedestrian who stepped into traffic in the middle of the road in Vancouver, Washington.
NORML’s Erik Altieri interview Gov. Gary Johnson; Cannabis Cure UK on Vietnamese “gang” in slave conditions at “cannabis factory”; Marine jailed in Mexico; Why State Welfare Drug Testing Laws Are Stupid, Expensive, Ineffective, and Cruel; music by Jacob Miller.
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.
A crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the base of the iconic Seattle Space Needle to openly smoke marijuana at 12:00am this morning. The revelers had come to celebrate the moment marijuana possession became legal in Washington State, thanks to last month’s passage of Initiative 502.
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.
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.
Dr. Mitch Earleywine answers live questions on Alzheimer’s and cannabis and reveals latest epilepsy study data; “Radical” Russ “Dances With Trolls”; music by Los Tucanes de Tijuana.
This presents a troubling development for American officials, because the United States has a long history of never violating any treaty it signs.
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.
60 percent of those surveyed in the West support the legalization of marijuana, with only 37 percent opposed.
D.A.R.E.’s not going to stop trying to teach kids to abstain from marijuana and they are not going to avoid discussing what marijuana is and what effect it has on children.
So how does Washington legalization pass by a margin of 11%, Colorado legalization pass by a margin of 10%, and Oregon legalization lose by a margin of 7%?
“Radical” Russ reveals the Seattle Police Department’s clarification of marijuana legalization; Jon Stewart’s and Bill Maher’s show call media to task for belittling marijuana legalization issue; Which states will be the next to pass marijuana legalization; music by MelodySheep.
It looks to me as if California is on the fast-track for marijuana legalization in 2014. But don’t discount Oregon. Our state’s largest newspaper is calling on our legislature to legalize and regulate marijuana.
