Every once in a while I find a piece of writing that I like so much all I want to do is lead you to it. Sadly, I can’t make you read, but I hope you will. The work is from the New Yorker on-line magazine; it’s by Hendrick Hertzberg and titled Obama and Marijuana: [...]
The Government Accountability Office is the watchdog (supposedly) on how tax money is spent. The GAO has some issues with federal anti-drug efforts. “The public health, social, and economic consequences of illicit drug use, coupled with the constrained fiscal environment of recent years, highlight the need to ensure that federal programs efficiently and effectively [...]
The prohibition of cannabis is coming to an end. For the last ten years we have seen an increasing pace of cities, municipalities, counties and the like making cannabis prosecution the “lowest priority” of their always overworked and underfunded law enforcement organizations. Each of these was a stinging body blow. They add up. Then came [...]
After Washington and Colorado re-legalized, my thinking was full re-legalization would come state-by-state. But take a look at this coalition which is forming to try and speed the process along. Attend to what’s going on in Congress. The “Respect State Marijuana Laws Act” introduced in the House last week would immunize anyone acting legally under [...]
Oh Canada, indeed. A new study conducted by UNICEF on child well-being found that Canadian kids smoke more marijuana than kids from any other developed country. UNICEF’s “Report Card 11″ found that Canada ranked first out of 29 countries for the percentage of of youths who smoke pot. According to the findings, 28 percent of [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled last week 5 to 4 to limit law enforcement’s use of drug sniffing dogs in situations where police did not possess probable cause or a warrant. The ruling upheld a Florida Supreme Court decision finding that police violated the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution when they [...]
Just so it gets said, this is not an endorsement. But it sure is interesting. How much more mainstream can our efforts become? Super PACs, independent-expenditure committees that can raise unlimited campaign contributions, conjure up images of political heavyweights like Karl Rove and the Koch brothers. But two marijuana-growing brothers from Eugene, Ore., have [...]
A majority of Americans are in favor of legalizing the use of marijuana, a national survey finds, a shift in attitude after more than four decades of polling on the issue. Fifty-two percent of Americans say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 45 percent say it should not, according to a Pew [...]
The legalization of recreational cannabis in Washington and Colorado could mean large amounts of tax revenue.
Marijuana legalization is at an all time high with 52% of Americans supporting the legalization. Only 45% disagree with supporting the herb. Shame on them. 72% of the people also so that the “cost of federal law enforcement efforts are not worth it.” Even if everybody isn’t in support of marijuana, about 3/4 of the [...]
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