What Will It Take For New York To Legalize Medical Marijuana?

 Posted by at 12:33 PM on June 16, 2013  Medical Marijuana Policy  5 Responses »
Jun 162013
 
What Will It Take For New York To Legalize Medical Marijuana?

New York has been in the news a lot lately regarding efforts to legalize medical marijuana. Recent polling shows that an overwhelming majority of voters in New York support such a proposal. There’s legislation that is working it’s way around the halls of the capital that would legalize marijuana. Politicians are supposed to be carrying out the will of the people, so what is the hold up? I have always felt that if the will of the people shows overwhelming support for something, then politicians should follow suit by giving [Continue Reading]

What Is The Best Marijuana Song Of All Time?

 Posted by at 12:21 PM on June 16, 2013  Marijuana Entertainment  10 Responses »
Jun 162013
 
What Is The Best Marijuana Song Of All Time?

What Is Your Favorite Marijuana Song? If there is one thing that goes well with marijuana, it is music. I think that just about everyone can agree on that. However, that’s where the agreement ends for most marijuana consumers. There are so many different styles of music and so many different preferences from person to person that it’s almost impossible to determine what is ‘the best’ of all time. Many rap fans will argue until they are blue in the face that it has to be a Cypress Hill song, [Continue Reading]

Moving Toward Legal Marijuana Commerce In Washington State

 Posted by at 4:39 PM on June 15, 2013  Ending Marijuana Prohibition, Marijuana Business  3 Responses »
Jun 152013
 
Moving Toward Legal Marijuana Commerce In Washington State

By Phillip Smith Voters approved the marijuana legalization initiative I-502 in Washington state last November, and it is now legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, but a full-blown marijuana commerce industry doesn’t just happen overnight. The state is still months away from having a functioning system of state-taxed and -regulated marijuana cultivators, processors, and retailers, but the process is well underway, and by most accounts, it is going relatively smoothly. Last month, the Washington Liquor Control Board (LCB), the state agency charged with setting up the state’s [Continue Reading]

The Drug War’s Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down

 Posted by at 1:22 PM on June 15, 2013  Ending Marijuana Prohibition  2 Responses »
Jun 152013
 
The Drug War's Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down

The Drug War’s Berlin Wall Is Down And So Is My Local Forest:  Here’s The Connection I’m on my yucca-framed porch swing sipping an organic Orange Julius and watching an 8,500-acre wildfire creep towards me here on my Funky Butte Ranch near the Mexican border. Shrug. Just more climate change era chaos. I can smell and in fact feel the heat from the blaze already. Its light ash snowfall accumulating on my napping dog rather powerfully conveys the message that I’m on 41 acres surrounded by a huge ponderosa pine [Continue Reading]

‘Dear Dad’ By The Marijuana Policy Project

 Posted by at 9:09 AM on June 15, 2013  Ending Marijuana Prohibition  No Responses »
Jun 152013
 
'Dear Dad' By The Marijuana Policy Project

By Mason Tvert, Director of Communications, Marijuana Policy Project Just before Mother’s Day, we released a video titled “Dear Mom,” which portrayed a young woman writing a note to her mother to let her know how she feels about marijuana. The goal was to demonstrate how easy it is to start a conversation about the issue with loved ones who might still have qualms about making marijuana legal for adults. With Father’s Day coming up tomorrow, we’re launching a similar web video, aptly titled “Dear Dad,” which depicts a son [Continue Reading]

Does Marijuana Make You Stupid?

 Posted by at 10:13 AM on June 14, 2013  Ending Marijuana Prohibition, Marijuana Science  27 Responses »
Jun 142013
 
Does Marijuana Make You Stupid?

One of my biggest pet peeves is when non-marijuana consumers assume that I am less intelligent than they are, simply because I consume marijuana and they don’t. It’s a stereotype that I have dealt with for more than half of my life. Do readers have to deal with this as often as I do? For what it’s worth to readers, I graduated from college, and was selected as ‘student of the year’ for my program, and I smoked marijuana everyday. Below is an article that deals with this very issue, and [Continue Reading]

Prohibition Hurts Science According To Researchers

 Posted by at 10:01 AM on June 14, 2013  Ending Marijuana Prohibition, Global Drug War, Marijuana Science  No Responses »
Jun 142013
 
Prohibition Hurts Science According To Researchers

By Phillip Smith In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a group of leading scientists argue that global drug prohibition has not only compounded the harms of drug use, but also produced the worst censorship of research in centuries. They likened the banning of psychoactive drugs and the subsequent hampering of research on them to the Catholic Church banning the works of Copernicus and Galileo. The paper, Effects of Schedule I Drug Laws on Neuroscience Research and Treatment Innovation (abstract only), was written by Professor David Nutt of [Continue Reading]

Obama Has Already Outspent Bush By $100 Million On Medical Marijuana Enforcement

 Posted by at 9:55 AM on June 14, 2013  Medical Marijuana Policy  3 Responses »
Jun 142013
 
Obama Has Already Outspent Bush By $100 Million On Medical Marijuana Enforcement

By Steph Sherer, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access Did you know that the Department of Justice has already spent nearly a half a billion dollars fighting medical cannabis? Did you know that the Obama Administration spent over half of that money on medical cannabis investigations, paramilitary-style raids, prosecutions, incarceration, and civil asset forfeiture lawsuits? Most Americans do not know these things, but what is worse is that most Members of Congress don’t know that either. Can you help Americans for Safe Access (ASA) let them know? Make a donation [Continue Reading]

Records Show Nearly 500 Years In Prison Time For Medical Marijuana Offenses

 Posted by at 9:50 AM on June 14, 2013  Medical Marijuana Policy  3 Responses »
Jun 142013
 
Records Show Nearly 500 Years In Prison Time For Medical Marijuana Offenses

In spite of growing public support for medical marijuana, concern about overreach by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies, and cutbacks in federal spending, the U.S. government’s war on medical marijuana is raging unabated according to a survey of court records by Cal NORML. On Tuesday, Michigan medical marijuana grower Jerry Duval, a kidney and pancreas transplant patient with severe medical problems, began serving a ten-year sentence in the same prison as the Boston bomber. Duval joins a growing list of defendants in states that allow medical [Continue Reading]

Southern Oregon Medical Marijuana Raids Were A Waste Of Tax Payer Resources

 Posted by at 9:41 AM on June 14, 2013  Medical Marijuana Policy  1 Response »
Jun 142013
 
Southern Oregon Medical Marijuana Raids Were A Waste Of Tax Payer Resources

Recently, I blogged about the recent wasteful and harmful raids in Southern Oregon and am happy to update NCC readers with the news that all of those accused have finally been released from jail.  The judge that set bail for David Bond and Lori & Lee Duckworth at over a half a million dollars a piece recused himself and a new judge reduced their bail.  Unfortunately, Lori and Lee Duckworth are unable to have any contact with each other, the first time they have been apart for any significant amount of time in over [Continue Reading]

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