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,...
As backwards and archaic as America’s cannabis prohibition may be, there’s one thing that will always be true: it could be worse. Indonesia is infamous for their harsh penalties for drugs – including marijuana – and vacationing Australians have a habit of falling prey to their strict system.
On Tuesday one Australian began his harrowing journey through the courts,...
I wrote the other day that support for the legalization of marijuana is higher than support for Barack Obama with nearly half of all adult Americans in favor of ending the criminal penalties for personal use that further overcrowd our prisons.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Shortly after taking office, the new president — himself a pot smoker as a teenager — asked that...
If there one universal way to qualify the multi-faceted battle for marijuana reform, it is the remarkable resilience of the movement and its dedication to carry on the fight regardless of how many disappointments and setbacks get in the way. Most recently, activists in Colorado and California have shown why the marijuana issue will never go away and why prohibition always comes...
What if I told you there is a secret weapon that, if understood and utilized by the cannabis reform community, could fairly quickly and very decisively decide the issue of marijuana legalization once and for all?
Everybody knows that cannabis legalization is very, very near the tipping point in the United States. Even the folks at Gallup, not exactly known for wild-eyed...
Despite warnings from opponents of medical marijuana, legalizing the drug for medical purposes does not encourage teens to smoke more pot, according to new research that compared rates of marijuana use in Massachusetts and Rhode Island after the latter state changed its laws.
Rhode Island legalized medical marijuana in 2006. But since Massachusetts did not, Dr. Esther Choo,...
On Saturday the White House issued its official response to the marijuana petition on their We The People website. This petition not only beat out all others by gathering over 70,000 signatures, it was accompanied by 4 other marijuana-related petitions in just the top ten submissions. While nobody was particularly optimistic about the marijuana petition’s potential for real...
In the wake of the major federal crackdown on California medical marijuana, most of the focus has been on the injustice of the action and the various components of the attacks; however, an interesting dual narrative has been developing over the issue of who is to blame. This is actually unusual, as in most cases that do not involve some inter-government scandal federal actors try...
It is common knowledge among marijuana smokers that the herb has a noticeable effect on short-term memory and generally leaves users in a very slight cognitive fog, which many find enjoyable. Now, a team of UK scientists from the University of Bristol have conducted tests and developed a theory for the cause of this effect.
The marijuana researchers performed experiments on rats...
Florida’s recent law forcing welfare applicants to submit to a drug test has been blocked by a federal judge. In perhaps the perfect storm of unexpected characters, a 35 year old Navy veteran and a judge appointed by former president George W. Bush are at the helm of this crusade.
Luis Lebron is a single father who was seeking some benefits while he finished his schooling. He...
Seems like the federal attack on California dispensaries have, predictably, created a chilling effect on medical marijuana reform across the nation. Last week, municipal authorities in Maple Shade, New Jersey decided not to allow Compassionate Sciences (one of the 6 companies allowed to grow medical marijuana in the state) to operate in their community. Now, more news of a medical...
We Can’t Wait. This is the new slogan that President Obama has chosen to symbolize his decision to pass a number of policy initiatives by executive order, bypassing Congress. So far reports have revealed a program to help homeowners deal with “underwater” mortgages and an upcoming attempt to tackle the student loan crisis. Already, some people with a poor grasp of...
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