Items tagged with cannabis
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| Former president Jimmy Carter OK with legalizing marijuana [12.12.2012] | Former President Jimmy Carter said he is in favor of legalizing marijuana during a public panel that CNN aired Tuesday. “I’m in favor of it. I think ... |
| Amsterdam to impose ban on smoking cannabis on school property [12.12.2012] | Amsterdam's mayor said he would formally ban students from smoking cannabis at school, making the city in the Netherlands the first to do so. Eberhar ... |
| Plenty of smoke clouds the future of legalized pot in Washington [10.12.2012] | The law setting up the US's first legal regulatory system for retail pot won't allow sales until next year. And the federal government still consider ... |
| Study: marijuana a susbstitute for prescription drugs and alcohol [10.12.2012] | Research being conducted by a former Victoria city councillor is poking holes in marijuana’s reputation as a gateway drug. According to an academic p ... |
| Marijuana legalization low-key by design in Colo. [10.12.2012] | Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday quietly removed the final barrier to legalization by declaring that an amendment passed by voters in November was of ... |
| Administration weighs legal action against States that legalized marijuana use [05.12.2012] | Senior White House and Justice Department officials are considering plans for legal action against Colorado and Washington that could undermine voter ... |
| Pot is now legal in Washington state. Should we do the same? [05.12.2012] | Although Canada has long toyed with decriminalizing marijuana, that idea was shelved when Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper took office. Ear ... |
| Smokers celebrate as Wash. legalizes marijuana [04.12.2012] | The crowds of happy people lighting joints under Seattle's Space Needle early Thursday morning with nary a police officer in sight bespoke the new re ... |
| With I-502, will more young adults use pot? [01.12.2012] | Some researchers think marijuana use among 18- to 25-year-olds will increase when Initiative 502 goes into effect, but college students say the drug ... |
| 8 Visions for the future of legal pot [30.11.2012] | Some drug policy reform leaders, fearing an official backlash, are urging a cautious, go-slow, approach: make it as easy as possible for the feds to ... |
| Investors see profit potential in new pot law [30.11.2012] | Votes in Washington and Colorado last month to legalize pot for recreational use turbocharged marijuana as a legitimate business opportunity. Busines ... |
| Turning over a new leaf [30.11.2012] | Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his ... |
| Noureddine Mediane, “Il faut dépénaliser le cannabis” [29.11.2012] | Le président du groupe de l’Istiqlal à la Chambre des Représentants, Noureddine Mediane, évoque la nécessité pour l’Etat de revoir son système répres ... |
| Can Obama and Peña Nieto Clear the Marijuana Smoke? [27.11.2012] | Like a growing number of Latin American leaders, Peña, who takes office Dec. 1, says it may be time to reassess the drug war. In an interview with TI ... |
| More states ponder legal marijuana as feds loom [26.11.2012] | The battle over the legal recreational use of marijuana heads to several more states, as officials in Colorado and Washington wait to see how the fed ... |
| Marijuana’s foot in the door [26.11.2012] | The Washington Post’s View: we favor decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, assessing civil fines instead of locking people up. Also, fo ... |
| Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California [25.11.2012] | Marijuana is one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and ... |
| Following win, Colorado marijuana activists debate how hard to push [24.11.2012] | Colorado marijuana activists, empowered after backing a successful legalization effort in the state, are in the midst of a dialogue about how far to ... |
| The truce on drugs [24.11.2012] | Something unexpected has happened in the past five years. The condemnations of the war on drugs - of the mechanized imprisonment of much of our inner ... |
| Give Pot a Chance [22.11.2012] | In two weeks, adults in this state will no longer be arrested or incarcerated for something that nearly 30 million Americans did last year. For the f ... |
| Jensen rejects Swedish fear of free cannabis [22.11.2012] | Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen rejects the Swedish concern about regulation of cannabis in Copenhagen. He emphasizes that the aim of the experiment is ... |
| Uruguay government aide defends marijuana plan [22.11.2012] | Juan Vaz, an Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, says it's time to end a contradiction that ... |
| Sweden urges city not to legalise cannabis [22.11.2012] | In a letter to the mayor, elected officials from 19 local councils in southern Sweden told Jensen they “were against all measures that involve a rela ... |
| Study shows legalizing pot could earn billions for B.C. [20.11.2012] | Legalizing marijuana in B.C. could generate $2.5 billion in government tax and licensing revenues over the next five years, according to a study publ ... |
| Dutch to classify super strong marijuana alongside heroin [20.11.2012] | The Dutch government is planning to classify strong strains of marijuana and cannabis as a Class A drug alongside heroin and cocaine. Coffee shops wi ... |
| Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol and other drugs [19.11.2012] | This article examines the subjective impact of medical cannabis on the use of both licit and illicit substances via self-report from 404 medical cann ... |
| New England marijuana legalization bills coming [19.11.2012] | In the wake of this month's marijuana legalization victories in Colorado and Washington, legislators in New England are ramping up efforts to be the ... |
| Time to end the war on drugs [19.11.2012] | Since its launch in 1971, when President Nixon successfully branded drug addicts as criminals, the war on drugs has resulted in 45 million arrests an ... |
| Marijuana legalisation in the US: Five burning questions [19.11.2012] | The 6 November votes in Colorado and Washington left a lot of marijuana users happy and a lot of police officers nervous. And they set the two states ... |
| Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17.11.2012] | Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costl ... |
| Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16.11.2012] | One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for adul ... |
| DeGette files bill to require feds to respect marijuana law [15.11.2012] | In an effort to ensure new voter-approved amendments that legalize limited use of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not overrun b ... |
| Denver joins Boulder in dropping prosecution of limited pot possession [15.11.2012] | Denver prosecutors will no longer charge those 21 and older for carrying less than an ounce of marijuana, and will review current cases that fit unde ... |
| Uruguay lawmakers consider legalization of marijuana with goal of outselling pot dealers [15.11.2012] | Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framewor ... |
| INCB President voices concern [15.11.2012] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in th ... |
| Seattle police produce a user's guide to pot [15.11.2012] | When Washington state voters legalized the recreational use of marijuana on Nov. 6, Seattle police knew they'd be getting a lot of questions. And whi ... |
| Mexico lawmaker introduces bill to legalize marijuana [14.11.2012] | A leftist Mexican lawmaker on Thursday presented a bill to legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana, adding to a growing chorus of Latin Am ... |
| Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [14.11.2012] | This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or al ... |
| Gregoire awaits federal decision on new pot laws [12.11.2012] | Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said Tuesday the federal government still hasn't decided whether to take action to block new laws legalizing marijuana ... |
| Mexican president says marijuana legalization votes leave U.S. with no 'moral authority' for drug war [12.11.2012] | Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country's "moral authority" ... |
| The will of the voters [12.11.2012] | Now that the voters in Colorado and Washington have approved marijuana legalization initiatives, attention has turned quickly to questions surroundin ... |
| Leaders in Latin America call for review of drug policy after 2 U.S. states vote to legalize marijuana [12.11.2012] | A group of Latin American leaders declared that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug ... |
| A more enlightened approach to intoxicants should legalise marijuana [12.11.2012] | With two US states - Washington and Colorado - voting to legalise the recreational use of marijuana, a similar liberal approach towards mild intoxica ... |
| As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war? [10.11.2012] | Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washingto ... |
| Legalized marijuana initiatives leave federal government wrestling with policy [09.11.2012] | Senior administration officials acknowledged that they are wrestling with how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, ... |
| The joint campaign: Should we not legalize recreational use of cannabis? [09.11.2012] | What two American states, Washington and Colorado, have decided to do - legalize recreational use of marijuana - was the norm in India until 1985. Al ... |
| Colorado, Washington await federal response to pot measure [09.11.2012] | Should marijuana be treated like alcohol? Or should it remain in the same legal category as heroin and the most dangerous drugs? Votes by Colorado an ... |
| The end of the war on marijuana [09.11.2012] | The historic measure to regulate and tax marijuana in Washington State deserves to be looked at closely as a model of how legalization ought to be de ... |
| Colorado and Washington legalise marijuana: what it really means [08.11.2012] | No sooner had the voters of Colorado and Washington passed measures to legalise marijuana than the predictions began: visions – both overexcited and ... |
| The American Public Is Doing a 180 on Marijuana Prohibition... [08.11.2012] | The election results this week from Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts and Arkansas demonstrate that public opinion about cannabis has moved much fa ... |
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