Cannabis was first legalized in 1937 and since then the world began suffering. Today we are destroying our forests, jailing more and more people every single day, bodies are piling up on the southern border and our fundamental right of choice was brutalized throughout the past seven decades.
Cannabis re-legalization could once more bring equality to the playing field and it might...
Cannabis has formed an intricate part of the evolution of man. Some evidence even suggest that it was the first crop to be cultivated by our ancestors and played a massive part in the development of medicine, food, construction and much more.
It wasn’t until 1937 that cannabis was made illegal and since then the world as a whole has witnessed the destruction that was associated...
Marijuana in Hawaii: Strong Public Support
New polling data on marijuana legalization in Hawaii was released in a joint press conference on Thursday by the Drug Policy Action Group, the ACLU and Q Mark Research. 81% of Hawaii state residents support medical marijuana with 78% supporting the issuance of licenses for dispensaries to facilitate access to the medicine.
Opinion on...
Marijuana Cards in Massachusetts
CannaMed, a medical marijuana recommendation evaluation center has opened its doors today, establishing the facility as the first of its kind in the state of Massachusetts. Voters in Massachusetts approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes on November 6th 2012, and the law went on the books January 1st, 2013. The Department of Health still...
Long Beach Medical Marijuana Dispensaries have been the target of increased pressure from the
California state, county and local authorities. Over the last 3 weeks, authorities have carried
out numerous operations resulting in 10 arrests at the local Long Beach Medical Marijuana
storefronts. The three raids carried out Tuesday bring the total amount of medicinal...
Supporters of the legalization of marijuana within North Dakota have now turned to a proposed initiative on Tuesday that will put the issue on the November North Dakota ballot. Originally, it was a Fargo state legislator who was the one who proposed the initiative to make using and growing marijuana for medicinal purposes legal.
With the approval of the voters of North Dakota, the...
The possession of fewer than fifteen grams of marijuana would carry no penalty in New Jersey under a new bill that won unanimous support from the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee today.
The Judiciary Committee approved the bill, entitled A1465, with very few objections from the jam-packed hearing room in the Statehouse. The bill would replace criminal penalties with fines...
Hash bars and marijuana dispensaries will not be popping up any time in the near future in Copenhagen after the Danish government rejected the city’s request to experiment with the legalizing of cannabis sales in the city.
Social Democratic Justice Minister Morten Bodskov wrote in a letter to the Copenhagen city council that the government was rejecting the city’s request...
Earlier this week, sixteen Washington state legislators announced their endorsement of Initiative 502 pertaining to marijuana reform. Republican Mary Lou Dickerson, the prime sponsor of the legislation upon which this initiative is based and Jeanne Kohl-Welles, are amongst some of the more notable names on the endorsement list for this Washington marijuana reform initiative.
I-502,...
By contrast, most countries take the view point that recreational drugs are considered detrimental to society. However, famous for its decades of laid-back attitude towards marijuana, the Netherlands will now require coffee shops in some regions to only sell marijuana to signed-up members or citizens who live in the country and not to foreign visitors.
Marijuana in the Netherlands...
After a premeditated threat to veto a medical marijuana bill, similar to one in 2009, Democrat Governor John Lynch says he vows to veto a bill to legalize home cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes once again in New Hampshire. However, threat of a veto occurring has not diverted the New Hampshire Medical Marijuana legislation mission, to pass a bill that relaxes laws...
Eight of the last ten years, the use of medical marijuana has been brought to Connecticut’s legislature’s attention but has only cleared the House of Representatives twice. One of these times being in 2004 and another in 2007. However, the fight for marijuana legalization in Connecticut has now taken a step closer into becoming a reality late Wednesday night.
After the State...
In 2012, the notoriously famous hacktivist group, Anonymous, was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine. Now this infamous group is turning it’s attention and focusing all of its superhero energy on waging a war against pot prohibition. Determined to unveil the mask off of marijuana, once and for all, Anonymous has launched a full-scale...
Potential operators of medical marijuana dispensaries have revived their plans to open East Valley locations now that a lawsuit to block the drug’s medical use has been dismissed.
People who want to open dispensaries have been checking with cities to make sure they can move quickly if they are issued licenses by Arizona this summer. They’re asking if they can transfer...
First California, then Washington and now it is apparently Montana’s turn to feel the heavy boot of the federal government when marijuana dispensaries in Missoula, Somers, Kalispel and Whitefish were raided over the past two days. A total of 12 search warrants and 4 civil seizures were executed, according to officials who claimed this was the culmination of a year-long...
Here we go again. On Tuesday, Washington medical marijuana dispensaries became the latest victims of the Obama administration’s escalating war on cannabis and the will of citizens. Agents of the federal government raided several state-sanctioned dispensaries with no regard for their actual compliance with local law. As usual, the feds claimed that this was all about drug...
Over the course of the first November weekend, the Drug Policy Alliance held its 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference at a sprawling LA hotel. Over 1200 activists from from across the globe attended to discuss the worldwide battle against prohibition and share the kind of information and know-how that will be necessary for the ultimate success of progressive drug law...
Eager for marijuana reform, voters across the country are affirming their support for change in measured steps aimed at keeping momentum strong into the pivotal 2012 elections. Both the cities of Tacoma in Washington and Kalamazoo in Michigan voted this past Tuesday to make marijuana possession the lowest priority offense for local law enforcement. While the practical effect of...
Even as the fight for medical marijuana rights heats up on the west coast in the wake of President Obama’s attack on California cannabis and the resulting lawsuits, activists in other states are still committing themselves to the cause of marijuana reform. While one cannot deny that the government’s actions have had a chilling effect on a number of medical marijuana...
While the Obama administration’s sudden escalation of war on marijuana has caused nothing but hardship on patients and thousands of lost jobs, it may ultimately become the catalyst for the final legal dismissal of federal cannabis prohibition. Since 2005 and Raich v Gonzales, when the Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could indeed enforce drug laws in the states,...
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