TIME FOR CALIFORNIA TO END THE UNWINNABLE MARIJUANA WAR ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #452 – Sunday, September 11th, 2010 Kevin Zeese, the president of Common Sense for Drug Policy www.csdp.org wrote the following for posting to various websites, including ours. The facts presented both in the article and the references […]
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Canada’s ‘Prince of Pot’ Sentenced to Five Years
Pubdate: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 Source: Seattle Times (WA) Webpage: http://drugsense.org/url/rxc0sghl Copyright: 2010 The Seattle Times Company Contact: opinion@seattletimes.com Author: Mike Carter Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?196 (Emery, Marc) CANADA’S ‘PRINCE OF POT’ SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS FOR SELLING MILLIONS OF CANNABIS SEEDS Marc Emery, Canada’s “Prince of Pot” and a powerful voice […]
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How is marijuana’s potency determined
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 9-6-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 9-6-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3052 Question of the Week: How is marijuana’s potency determined? The World Drug Report 2009 states, “The amount of THC in a cannabis sample […]
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Stop the Lies about Marijuana Legalization
Opponents of California’s Prop. 19 are already ramping up a misinformation campaign to scare voters with wild claims about the dangers of legalizing marijuana for adults 21 and up. Let’s fight back! Sign the petition below to tell the drug war fearmongers that the whole country is watching and their […]
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Marijuana Gateway Risk Overblown: Study
Ethnicity, employment better predictors of hard drug use Long-held fears that the use of marijuana will lead to harder drugs are overblown, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire. The research, in the September issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, found that other factors, […]
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Smoking Marijuana Relieves Some Pain: Study
Smoking marijuana does help relieve a certain amount of pain, a small but well-designed Canadian study has found. People who suffer chronic neuropathic or nerve pain from damage or dysfunction of the nervous system have few treatment options with varying degrees of effectiveness and side-effects. Neuropathic pain is caused by […]
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Six Drug Czars, and Between Them They Can’t Muster a Decent Argument for Marijuana Prohibition
By Jacob Sullum “Our opposition to legalizing marijuana is grounded not in ideology but in facts and experience,” say drug czar Gil Kerlikowske and his five predecessors in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece that urges Californians to vote against Proposition 19. They argue that voters should listen to them […]
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Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign
From the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facebook-blocks-ads-for-p_n_692295.html. Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign by Ryan Grim For a typical college student, if it didn’t happen on Facebook, it didn’t happen. That gives the social networking behemoth an out-sized influence on the confines of political debate, if that debate falls outside […]
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Who is for & against Proposition 19?
We have updated our list of who is for and against Proposition 19. FOR The International Longshore and Warehouse Union The National Black Police Association The United Food and Commercial Workers Union The California National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Law Enforcement Against Prohibition The Drug Policy Alliance […]