Items tagged with legalization
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| Will Obama's 'war on weed' really ride roughshod over American voters? [10.01.2013] | The cry of "states' rights" is not often associated with progressive causes, but with the "war on drugs" comprehensively declared a $1tn failure by t ... |
| Schritte zur Legalisierung von Cannabis [09.01.2013] | Zusammen mit dem Bund und der Stadt Basel will Zürich ein breit angelegtes Forschungsprojekt anstossen, um offene Fragen rund um Handel und Konsum vo ... |
| Why marijuana should be legal for adults [08.01.2013] | Forget the antiquated dogma and judge pot prohibition on its own merits. If you still believe that cannabis should be illegal, then you must logicall ... |
| Zurich calls for study on legalizing marijuana [07.01.2013] | The Swiss city of Zurich's parliament voted to call on the government to commission a national study on legalizing marijuana, local media said. The v ... |
| U.S. marijuana laws ricochet through Latin America [06.01.2013] | Leaders from across Latin America responded within days of the Colorado and Washington vote, demanding a review of drug-war policies that have mired ... |
| Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado [04.01.2013] | Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its ... |
| Mexico considers marijuana legalization after ballot wins in U.S. [04.01.2013] | The success of legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington has sparked a new conversation in a nation that is one of the world's top marijuan ... |
| Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories [29.12.2012] | After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with victories in Washington state and Colorado, its energized and deep-p ... |
| Parts of Colorado's pot legalization strategy exported to other states [29.12.2012] | The sequential strategy will look familiar to Coloradans: first, pass a medical-marijuana law; then put dispensaries in place; then go for recreation ... |
| Canada could learn from Colorado and Washington on pot [25.12.2012] | The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana represents a seismic shift in public attitudes. This historic reform will onl ... |
| Uruguay postpones vote on 'state as dealer' approach to drug regulation - but not for long? [23.12.2012] | Uruguay has been on the vanguard of drug policy reform in the Americas, proposing a state regulatory market for the cultivation and consumption of ma ... |
| Reefer Madness Revisited [20.12.2012] | Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has co-authored most of the medical marijuana laws on the books. ... |
| The next seven states to legalize pot [18.12.2012] | By legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As man ... |
| Task force created to regulate legalized marijuana in Colorado [16.12.2012] | It has been a little over a month since Coloradans approved a groundbreaking law legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. Now that ... |
| President's pot comments prompt call for policy [14.12.2012] | President Barack Obama says he won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use. But ... |
| Federal government should allow states to sanction marijuana businesses [14.12.2012] | President Obama’s statement of tolerance toward legalized marijuana is welcome. The real question is not whether federal agents will go after users. ... |
| Marijuana not high Obama priority [14.12.2012] | President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a "top priority" of federal law enforc ... |
| Recreational marijuana should not be top federal priority: Obama [14.12.2012] | In an interview with ABC News President Barack Obama said federal authorities should not target recreational marijuana use in two Western states wher ... |
| Nick Clegg and David Cameron clash over drug law reforms [14.12.2012] | Divisions between David Cameron and Nick Clegg over Britain's "war on drugs" emerged on Friday after the Liberal Democrat leader said that current po ... |
| Colorado pot legalization: 30 questions (and answers) [12.12.2012] | The passage and governor's proclamation of Amendment 64 on Monday, which makes Colorado one of the first two states to legalize limited possession an ... |
| Poll: Keep feds out of state pot laws [12.12.2012] | Most Americans want the federal government to stop enforcing anti-marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington state, according to a Gallup Poll. Sixty- ... |
| Former president Jimmy Carter OK with legalizing marijuana [12.12.2012] | Former President Jimmy Carter said he is in favor of legalizing marijuana during a public panel that CNN aired Tuesday. “I’m in favor of it. I think ... |
| Plenty of smoke clouds the future of legalized pot in Washington [10.12.2012] | The law setting up the US's first legal regulatory system for retail pot won't allow sales until next year. And the federal government still consider ... |
| Marijuana legalization low-key by design in Colo. [10.12.2012] | Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday quietly removed the final barrier to legalization by declaring that an amendment passed by voters in November was of ... |
| David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [09.12.2012] | David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation ... |
| Administration weighs legal action against States that legalized marijuana use [05.12.2012] | Senior White House and Justice Department officials are considering plans for legal action against Colorado and Washington that could undermine voter ... |
| Pot is now legal in Washington state. Should we do the same? [05.12.2012] | Although Canada has long toyed with decriminalizing marijuana, that idea was shelved when Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper took office. Ear ... |
| Smokers celebrate as Wash. legalizes marijuana [04.12.2012] | The crowds of happy people lighting joints under Seattle's Space Needle early Thursday morning with nary a police officer in sight bespoke the new re ... |
| With I-502, will more young adults use pot? [01.12.2012] | Some researchers think marijuana use among 18- to 25-year-olds will increase when Initiative 502 goes into effect, but college students say the drug ... |
| 8 Visions for the future of legal pot [30.11.2012] | Some drug policy reform leaders, fearing an official backlash, are urging a cautious, go-slow, approach: make it as easy as possible for the feds to ... |
| Investors see profit potential in new pot law [30.11.2012] | Votes in Washington and Colorado last month to legalize pot for recreational use turbocharged marijuana as a legitimate business opportunity. Busines ... |
| Turning over a new leaf [30.11.2012] | Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his ... |
| Noureddine Mediane, “Il faut dépénaliser le cannabis” [29.11.2012] | Le président du groupe de l’Istiqlal à la Chambre des Représentants, Noureddine Mediane, évoque la nécessité pour l’Etat de revoir son système répres ... |
| Can Obama and Peña Nieto Clear the Marijuana Smoke? [27.11.2012] | Like a growing number of Latin American leaders, Peña, who takes office Dec. 1, says it may be time to reassess the drug war. In an interview with TI ... |
| More states ponder legal marijuana as feds loom [26.11.2012] | The battle over the legal recreational use of marijuana heads to several more states, as officials in Colorado and Washington wait to see how the fed ... |
| Marijuana’s foot in the door [26.11.2012] | The Washington Post’s View: we favor decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, assessing civil fines instead of locking people up. Also, fo ... |
| Following win, Colorado marijuana activists debate how hard to push [24.11.2012] | Colorado marijuana activists, empowered after backing a successful legalization effort in the state, are in the midst of a dialogue about how far to ... |
| The truce on drugs [24.11.2012] | Something unexpected has happened in the past five years. The condemnations of the war on drugs - of the mechanized imprisonment of much of our inner ... |
| Give Pot a Chance [22.11.2012] | In two weeks, adults in this state will no longer be arrested or incarcerated for something that nearly 30 million Americans did last year. For the f ... |
| Jensen rejects Swedish fear of free cannabis [22.11.2012] | Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen rejects the Swedish concern about regulation of cannabis in Copenhagen. He emphasizes that the aim of the experiment is ... |
| Uruguay government aide defends marijuana plan [22.11.2012] | Juan Vaz, an Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, says it's time to end a contradiction that ... |
| Sweden urges city not to legalise cannabis [22.11.2012] | In a letter to the mayor, elected officials from 19 local councils in southern Sweden told Jensen they “were against all measures that involve a rela ... |
| Study shows legalizing pot could earn billions for B.C. [20.11.2012] | Legalizing marijuana in B.C. could generate $2.5 billion in government tax and licensing revenues over the next five years, according to a study publ ... |
| New England marijuana legalization bills coming [19.11.2012] | In the wake of this month's marijuana legalization victories in Colorado and Washington, legislators in New England are ramping up efforts to be the ... |
| Time to end the war on drugs [19.11.2012] | Since its launch in 1971, when President Nixon successfully branded drug addicts as criminals, the war on drugs has resulted in 45 million arrests an ... |
| Marijuana legalisation in the US: Five burning questions [19.11.2012] | The 6 November votes in Colorado and Washington left a lot of marijuana users happy and a lot of police officers nervous. And they set the two states ... |
| Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'? [16.11.2012] | One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for adul ... |
| DeGette files bill to require feds to respect marijuana law [15.11.2012] | In an effort to ensure new voter-approved amendments that legalize limited use of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not overrun b ... |
| Denver joins Boulder in dropping prosecution of limited pot possession [15.11.2012] | Denver prosecutors will no longer charge those 21 and older for carrying less than an ounce of marijuana, and will review current cases that fit unde ... |
| Uruguay lawmakers consider legalization of marijuana with goal of outselling pot dealers [15.11.2012] | Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framewor ... |
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