by Michel Comte. Justin Trudeau raised eyebrows when he admitted to having dabbled in marijuana while a member of parliament, but his pledge as prime minister to legalize pot has been broadly cheered. He said in a policy speech on Friday that his Liberal government would introduce legislation as early as 2016 to legalize marijuana, making Canada ... MORE
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Going To Pot? Canada Leads Way In Legalizing Marijuana
by Michel Comte. Justin Trudeau raised eyebrows when he admitted to having dabbled in marijuana while a member of parliament, but his pledge as prime minister to legalize pot has been broadly cheered. He said in a policy speech on Friday that his Liberal government would introduce legislation as early as 2016 to legalize marijuana, making Canada ... MORESome Members Of Congress Want To Stop Squandering Tax Money On The DEA's Failed Marijuana Eradication Program
by Christopher Ingraham. The Drug Enforcement Administration is not having a great year. The chief of the agency stepped down in April under a cloud of scandal. The acting administrator since then has courted ridicule for saying pot is "probably not" as dangerous as heroin, and more recently he provoked 100,000 petition-signers and seven ... MOREJustin Gardner: Colorado Juries Keep Letting People Go for Driving on Weed; The Prosecutors And Cops Are Furious
When the state is arbitrary and capricious. Colorado prosecutors are getting frustrated at jurors for daring to
exercise rationality instead of blindly following the will of the State.
A growing number of juries are acquitting people of driving under the influence of cannabis, even when tests show they are over the state’s legal blood-THC limit. ... MORECharles Seeburger: 10 Facts About The Economics Of Weed
From black market to free market. From the legal markets thriving in states like Colorado and Washington, to the underground trade that generates billions of Mexican cartels, the economics of weed are crazy. Ganja. Smoke. Dro. Chronic. Spliffage. The names are as varied as the opinions about it: from rather innocuous plant, to cure all, to ... MOREHell's Angels Say Canada’s Plans To Legalize Marijuana Will Deal Massive Blow To Their Organized Crime Operations
by Emily Gray Brosious. Canada’s newly elected Liberal government has promised to legalize marijuana “right away,” and that’s not sitting well with thousands of Hells Angels members who say the move would cost the organized crime outfit hundreds of thousands of jobs, as reported by World News Daily. Thousands of members of the organized ... MOREJacob Sullum: Pot Pleasure, Pot Problems
As prohibition collapses, abuse is less likely. It stands to reason that legalizing marijuana, by making it easier, cheaper, and less risky to obtain, would encourage consumption. That is mostly a positive development, since it implies greater consumer satisfaction as more people enjoy a product that prohibition made harder to get. ... MOREPoll Says Marijuana Legalization Support Nears 60%
by Trevor Hughes. More Americans than ever are smoking, eating and drinking marijuana, and they now overwhelmingly support full legalization of the long-banned plant, a new study and poll show. A Gallup poll released Wednesday shows 58% of American adults think marijuana should be legal, up from 51% a year ago, with just 40% believing it ... MOREFederal Court Orders The DEA To Stop Harassing Medical Marijuana Providers And Instead Start Obeying The Law
Enforcement zealots must learn to obey the law. In a scathing decision, a federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration's interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill "defies language and logic," "tortures the plain meaning of the statute" and is "at odds with fundamental notions of the rule of law." The ruling ... MORENullification In Effect: Oregonians Defy Feds, Spend Millions On Marijuana In First Week Of Legal Sales
59 Million More Americans Could Access Marijuana In 2016
by Todd Campbell. California and Florida could both be liberated by next year. Marijuana advocates have been gaining momentum in states that have yet to legalize marijuana, but supporters and those interested in the legalization efforts are undeniably watching most closely to see what happens in California and Florida. Those two states have different ... MOREJacob Sullum: Did Marijuana Make Him Do It?
What passes for the prohibitionist's cautionary tale. Between 1911, when Massachusetts became the first state to ban marijuana, and 1937, when Congress made pot prohibition the law of the land, cannabis acquired a reputation as a "killer drug" that drove people to irrational acts of violence. Since 2012, when Colorado became the first state ... MOREMarijuana Legalization: Disaster or Catastrophe?
by Jacob Sullum. Drug warriors are desperate to make repeal of pot prohibition look like a mistake. In 2012 Coloradans approved Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana for recreational use, by avote of 55 percent to 45 percent. Last February a Quinnipiac University poll found that 58 percent of Colorado voters supported that decision, while 38 ... MORELearn About Jury Nullification: Medical Marijuana Patient Could Spend Close To 100 Years In Prison For Pot Charges
by Maria Ines Taracena. The thought of possibly spending close to 100 years in prison terrifies Kyle Catlin. But he's mostly concerned about his mom. She's not in the best of
health. If something were to happen to her, "I may not even be allowed
to leave prison to go to my mom's funeral, and that's super fucked up,"
he says. "I'm probably not gonna ... MOREVIDEO FLASHBACK: War On Drugs Is A Failure (2013)
Featuring Ron Paul, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee.
Jacob Sullum: Where Can You Smoke Legal Pot?
Out from the shadows. When the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts unveiled the text of its 2016 legalization initiative this month, the group highlighted several features of the measure but omitted the most interesting one. The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act would allow consumption of cannabis ... MOREThese 17 States Could Have Legalized Marijuana Soon
by Kyle Jaeger. A marijuana legalization initiative in Ohio received enough signatures
to get on the November 2015 ballot, Secretary of State Jon Husted
announced on Tuesday, much to the excitement of the measure's pro-pot
supporters. If it passes, Ohio will become the fifth state (plus the
District of Columbia) to allow people 21 or older to ... MORE
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