By Jacob Sullum Matt Labash has an amusing, informative, and frequently astute report on Michigan’s medical marijuana industry in the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. As in California, he finds, it’s not hard to qualify as a patient who is permitted to use cannabis under state law, and many […]
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California Braces for an Unstoppable Onslaught of Stoned Drivers and Employees
By Jacob Sullum Opponents of Proposition 19, California’s marijuana legalization initiative, are falsely claiming it would allow people to drive while stoned. In a June Sacramento Bee op-ed piece, Bishop Ron Allen of the Greater Solomon Temple Community Church warned: If this proposed initiative passes, California drivers will be able […]
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Sooner Or Later, Marijuana Will Be Legal
By Bill Piper, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Bill Piper is the director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance. (CNN) — It’s as predictable as the sun rising and setting. Even though police made more than 850,000 marijuana arrests last year, a recent government report shows youth marijuana […]
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How many people are arrested for possessing marijuana?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 9-29-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 9-29-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3083 Question of the Week: How many people arrested just for possessing marijuana? The Federal Bureau of Investigation compiles arrest data through a system […]
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Is today’s marijuana more potent?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 9-19-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 9-19-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3070 Question of the Week: Is today’s marijuana more potent? The DEA states on it’s website that, “Although marijuana grown in the United States […]
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Just Say Now! – NORML Conference 2010 Footage Now Available
The leaves are starting to change color, harvest season is upon us, and fall has officially begun. As the days grow shorter and the temperature gets a bit cooler it is a good time to reflect on the year that was in cannabis law reform. 2010 turned the steady momentum […]
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Federalism and Medical Marijuana
Let the states serve as experimental laboratories. By Patri Friedman Since medical marijuana was legalized in California in 1996, use has been widespread. And once the Obama administration reduced the harassment, the number of dispensaries has grown rapidly. Not that pot was ever that hard to get out West, but […]
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Public Forum: Where is Marijuana Reform Heading?
The ACLU-WA presented a discussion on the history, current status, and future of marijuana-law reform in Washington and the United States. Local and national panelists included travel writer Rick Steves; Keith Stroup, founder of, and legal counsel to, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws; Washington state Sen. […]
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Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire: Michael Pollan
Contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan delivers this Avenali Lecture on Cannabis Forgetting and the Botany of Desire [1/2003]