A local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is getting involved in the push to make Nevada the next state to legalize marijuana. Jeffery Blanck, president of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, sent a letter to all state lawmakers declaring, “It is time to end the failed …
Texas Girl Was Taken Away From Parents Because They Smoked Pot, Only to Be Killed in Foster Care Little Alex Hill would have been turned four-years-old last month. But rather than celebrating their child’s birthday, the toddler’s parents have only the bitter consolation of seeing a judge in Milam County …
Seattle Times Editorial Source: Seattle Times Seattle — The world is watching Washington’s historic experiment with marijuana legalization, and we’re screwing it up. A painstakingly slow launch of recreational marijuana stores, with their sky-high prices and scarcity in Seattle, gets most headlines. But the truth is that experiment is utterly …
By Marsha Rosenbaum Source: Huffington Post USA — Last month Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia joined Colorado and Washington as voters approved initiatives to legalize marijuana. Other states,including California, are likely to follow in 2016. Voters passed these initiatives not as an endorsement of marijuana per se, …
PRO (yes) CON (no) The Office of National Drug Control Policy stated in a Dec. 30, 1996 policy titled “The Administration’s Response to the Passage of California Proposition 215 and Arizona Proposition 200”: “[A] practitioner’s action of recommending or prescribing Schedule I controlled substances is not consistent with the ‘public …
The state of Colorado has been enjoying recreational cannabis from the flowers to the food, but the Marijuana Enforcement Division wants to make sure things don’t get carried away — particularly when it comes to children and young adults under the legal cannabis consumption age of 21. According to reports from …
Smoking Stems Re “Repeal Prohibition, Again” (editorial, July 27): Consumers have made marijuana a multibillion-dollar enterprise, as creative entrepreneurs will always provide for citizens’ desires, regardless of government approval. We should legalize marijuana, and add a sales tax. Revenues will cover the social costs of any abuse. Citizens have more …
America’s four-decade war on drugs is responsible for many casualties, but the criminalization of marijuana has been perhaps the most destructive part of that war. The toll can be measured in dollars — billions of which are thrown away each year in the aggressive enforcement of pointless laws. It can …
Medical marijuana bottled for patients in Los Angeles.Credit Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Politicians who don’t want to take a clear position on marijuana legalization often say more research is needed on the effects of consuming the drug. Hillary Clinton called for more research just last month on …
Prospective medical marijuana growers in Florida are struggling to figure out a legal way to obtain starter cannabis plants under a new state law allowing for limited medical use, the bill’s sponsor and other experts say. Florida lawmakers failed to address how growers licensed by the state would acquire a …