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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Flawed Ohio Marijuana Legalization Initiative Defeated
by Ilya Somin. An anti-marijuana or anti-monopoly vote? Ohio Issue 3 – the seriously flawed marijuana legalization referendum initiative that I nonetheless defended because of its superiority to the status quo, has gone down to defeat. While not all of the votes have yet been counted, it is likely that it will lose by a large margin (currently 65-35, ... MORE
Hell'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 ... MORE
Jacob 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. ... MORE
Poll 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 ... MORE
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Nullification In Effect: Oregonians Defy Feds, Spend Millions On Marijuana In First Week Of Legal Sales
$3.5 million of sales on first day. In the first week of limited marijuana sales in Oregon, dispensaries sold a staggering $11 million of weed – more than double the numbers from Colorado’s first week – proving state laws legalizing cannabis truly do nullify federal prohibition in practice. The Free Thought Project reported on the first week ... MORE
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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 ... MORE
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Bruce Wright: Marijuana Legalization 2015 - US Pot Arrests Increased In 2014 With 1 Every 45 Seconds, FBI Data Show
It's easier than chasing down bad guys. Even as many U.S. states continue to reform and ease legislation
governing the use of marijuana, both medicinal and recreational,
enforcement of laws against the drug's use has apparently hardened.
Nearly 701,000 people were arrested in 2014 for marijuana-related
offenses, which means roughly one arrest ... MORE
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Marijuana 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 ... MORE
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Ian Lovett: California Legislature Approves Assisted Suicide
Individuals gain property rights over themselves. In a landmark victory for supporters of assisted suicide, the California State Legislature on Friday gave its final approval to a bill that would allow doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives. Four states — Oregon, Washington, Montana and Vermont — already allow physicians to ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: Outlawing Prostitution Is A Crime
Laws put sex workers in unnecessary danger. Banning things you don't like has a long history, though not a happy one. Americans have tried banning alcohol, marijuana, pornography and homosexuality. All of them persisted anyway. So we learned to not only tolerate but allow them. Nowadays, you can have a glass of Scotch in a gay bar while ... MORE
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These 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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G Bentley: Paper Explodes Feminist Myth That Women Are As Horny As Men And Calls For Legalization Of Prostitution
It is what it is. Men’s demand for sex far outstrips that of women and the gap is set to widen with major implications for laws surrounding prostitution, according to a new paper from the Institute of Economic Affairs. One of the key claims in the IEA paper is that there is a major gap between men and women in sexual desire. “Male sexual ... MORE
D.A.R.E. Published An Op-ed Calling For Pot Legalization
by Claire Landsbaum. It must unanimous now. The war on drugs is over, and weed won. D.A.R.E., the organization
designed to plant a deep-seated fear of drugs in the minds of every
late-20th-century middle schooler, published an op-ed calling for marijuana legalization. Written by former deputy sheriff Carlis McDerment in response to a letter ... MORE
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Pot Legalization Likely To Be On Michigan's 2016 Ballot
by Mara MacDonald. It looks like Michigan voters will be deciding whether they want to legalize marijuana in 2016. Nearly 40,000 signatures have been collected in just 12 days as part of a push to get the issue on the ballot. There are two ballot proposals which have seen language approved by the state board of canvassers, but only one has ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: How Libertarian Is Rand Paul On Drug Policy?
More than the others, but there is room for improvement. Last week about 40 people paid at
least $2,700 each to hear Rand Paul talk about drug policy during the
National Cannabis Industry Association's conference at the Denver
Convention Center. That "private briefing" made the Kentucky senator the
first major-party presidential candidate ... MORE
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Cautious Effort To Legalize Marijuana In California In 2016
by Steven Greenhut. By ballot initiative. Regardless of one's take on the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision on
Friday forbidding states from banning same-sex marriage, it's clear the
ruling didn't come in a vacuum. Analysts said the court "created" a new
civil right, but public attitudes have shifted dramatically in recent
years. The court simply gave its blessing ... MORE
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Marijuana Legalization: Bad For The Cartels, Better For All
by Hillary Bricken. Marijuana legalization has already led to many benefits in the United States, ranging from increased tax revenues to decreased cannabis use by minors. Marijuana legalization is also putting a dent into what the Department of Justice calls the “greatest organized crime threat to the United States,” the Mexican drug cartels. ... MORE
Government Study Confirms Marijuana Impairs Drivers Less Than Alcohol, Casts Doubt on Stoned Driving Definitions
by Jacob Sullum. A new study by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) confirms that marijuana has a less dramatic effect on driving than alcohol does and casts further doubt on the standard that Colorado and Washington use for determining when someone is too stoned to drive. In the double-blind study, 18 occasional cannabis ... MORE
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