The voters of Oregon in 2014 demanded that marijuana be treated like alcohol. Given the success we’ve had at keeping teenagers from purchasing legal marijuana, maybe it is time we started treating alcohol like marijuana.
Talking about the “Greed & Evil” of the anti-marijuana lobby with author Robert “Bobby Tuna” Platshorn; Latest Monitoring the Future data shows the lowest teen drug use rates have all occurred since marijuana legalization; Rebuking policy pundit Jonathan Caulkins assertion that fighting for marijuana freedom is “juvenile.”
A concern of opponents of legalization was the effect marijuana would have as a “gateway drug.” Since most heroin, cocaine, and meth users started with marijuana, their flawed reasoning goes, increased marijuana use will lead to increased drug use.
Marijuana not only doesn’t interfere with my life, it enhances my life. Given that I have dedicated my research and broadcasting skills to legalizing marijuana, marijuana is my life.
John J. Hudak from Brookings Institute discusses the new report he’s co-authored on the successes and failures of Uruguay’s national marijuana legalization; Serra Frank from Boise Hempfest on the upcoming event and the fight to legalize in America’s only CBD-veto state; Rant: Anti-pot millionaire Julie Schauer has three radically insane ideas about marijuana and guns.
In almost half the states, the people can gather signatures on a petition to put an initiative before the voters to become law or amend their state constitution. Why should they have greater rights of self-determination than the rest of the country?