To open the New Year, I was presented with a bouquet of reefer madness so pungent it compelled me to write it up three days before the end of my vacation. Oregon State Senator Doug Whitsett wrote “Marijuana: more potent now and unquestionably addictive” in the Oregon Catalyst. I retort and debunk.
To open the New Year, I was presented with a bouquet of reefer madness so pungent it compelled me to write it up three days before the end of my vacation. Oregon State Senator Doug Whitsett wrote “Marijuana: more potent now and unquestionably addictive” in the Oregon Catalyst. I retort and debunk.
The latest Monitoring the Future survey is out. Like any collection of statistics about marijuana, the drug warriors will spin them to advance the agenda of drug-testing, discriminating against, locking up, and re-educating adults who choose marijuana over martinis, Marlboros, Midol, or morphine.
“Steven Crowder destroys pretty much every pro-marijuana argument” and that “Stoners lie. Or they’re just too stupid to know the truth.”
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.
We shouldn’t regulate drugs because they are safe, we should regulate them because they are potentially harmful.
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.
The opponents of Oregon’s Measure 80 to legalize marijuana have taken to plagiarizing each other’s reefer madness essays in local newspapers.
The “Protect Our Society” group that brought us the “Meth Girl” Billboard in Oregon just can’t stop lying about it.
In the case of Americans for Safe Access vs. Drug Enforcement Administration it might be one of those “be careful what you wish for” scenarios. In winning the recognition of medical marijuana at the federal level, medical marijuana at the state level may become something we don’t recognize.
I’m Russ Belville, I’m one of over a half-million Oregon cannabis consumers and we will no longer accept being treated as criminals and second-class citizens. We applaud Clear Channel for removing these offensive billboards. Please visit OregonLawReform.com to get involved with the serious, honest debate on ending marijuana prohibition in Oregon.
Putnam County School District in West Virginia drug tested 1,072 6th-to-12th graders last year at a cost of over $50,000, according to the Charleston Daily Mail. The drug testing, performed via a cheek saliva swab, uncovered less than 1% of those students as drug users.
Over 16 million voting-age American adults will use marijuana monthly, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use & Health for 2011, released today by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Administration. In 2010, the survey estimated 15.6 million Americans aged 18 and older had used marijuana in the past month, a figure that has increased by 498,000 to now 16.1 million regular cannabis consumers. This represents 6.77% of all American adults who are considered criminals every month under state and federal law, or one out of every fifteen citizens aged 18 and older.
Lady Gaga has been no shrinking violet when it comes to her personal use of marijuana. But the Mother Monster took it to a new level on Monday when she openly smoked a blunt on stage in Holland.
Opponents of Question 3 on the Massachusetts ballot to legalize medical use of marijuana are being seriously out-funded by supporters. According to reports from the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance, medical marijuana advocates have raised $512,860 since January.
A new study published in the journal of the American Cancer Society claims young men who smoke marijuana have twice the risk of aggressive testicular cancers, reported today by CBS News.
The list includes three current or former Presidents of the United States, a Vice President and a Vice Presidential candidate, a Speaker of the House, a Supreme Court Justice, three state governors, a mayor, and numerous actors, musicians, and athletes.
Enforcing laws against the personal possession of marijuana cost the Washington county of Thurston, home to the capital city of Olympia, $18.5 million over a ten-year period.
Frank Cervo, president of UCONN SSDP, on the changes in campus drug policies through student activism; debunking Kevin Sabet’s latest Huffington Post piece against marijuana legalization; Bruce Lee remix from Melody Sheep.
If Dr. Sabet’s reasoning makes your head hurt, try working through it backwards. He says legalization of marijuana would increase abuse, thereby increasing arrests, thereby leading to more costs. So, then, if we went returned to a strict new alcohol prohibition where anyone caught with a beer can be arrested and jailed, fewer people would abuse alcohol, we’d make fewer arrests for alcohol, and we’d have lower criminal justice costs for alcohol.
A thorough debunking of the playbook the prohibitionists are going to use in the face of three states attempting legalization (Colorado, Washington, Oregon) and four states attempting medicalization (Massachusetts, North Dakota, Arkansas, and Montana’s referendum to restore medical marijuana).
