Items tagged with US drug policy
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| The UN really wishes that voters in Alaska and Oregon hadn’t legalized weed [13.11.2014] | The director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, said that state-level marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. are ... |
| A top UN official is not happy about US states legalizing weed [13.11.2014] | The UN's top narcotics official said on Wednesday that recent votes by US states to legalize marijuana have put America in deeper violation of the in ... |
| Pot legalization: Gateway to what? [12.11.2014] | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to stay on the sidelines of future pot legalization campaigns – already supported by groups plotting ... |
| U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [12.11.2014] | Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said, adding he w ... |
| The dark-horse policy reform that has both Obama and some GOPers optimistic [09.11.2014] | With Democrats holding the White House and Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, it's been suggested that the odds are slim of any major ... |
| Marijuana may mean ticket, not arrest, in New York City [08.11.2014] | The New York Police Department, which has been arresting tens of thousands of people a year for low-level marijuana possession, is to stop making suc ... |
| The Marlboro of marijuana [07.11.2014] | Would household names really consider selling cannabis? They already have. In 1969 a Philip Morris executive wrote to the Justice Department, request ... |
| Support for legal pot down off its high [06.11.2014] | Even as the national experiment legalizing recreational pot spread this week to Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., a new poll suggests the enthusia ... |
| US vote refuels ganja debate [06.11.2014] | The local pro-ganja lobby in Jamaica is welcoming the vote for the legalisation of ganja in the American states of Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC. ... |
| Fear of cannabis commerce didn't, won't and shouldn't stop legalization [05.11.2014] | Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot this week, and all three won. That’s a better outcome than I was expecting. I was surpris ... |
| Marijuana legalization sweeps the 2014 midterm elections [05.11.2014] | On November 4, several states radically altered their approaches to a drug once known for Reefer Madness. In Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, DC, vote ... |
| 6 facts about marijuana [05.11.2014] | Attitudes about marijuana have undergone a rapid shift in public opinion, paralleled by few other trends in the U.S. Our recent data, along with hist ... |
| California next for pot proponents emboldened by election victories [05.11.2014] | Marijuana advocates, fresh off victories for legal recreational pot in Oregon, Alaska and the nation’s capital, are already preparing for their next ... |
| Oregon and Alaska vote to legalise recreational marijuana use [05.11.2014] | Oregon and Alaska have become the latest US states to legalise recreational marijuana in ballots hailed by supporters as evidence that a national cha ... |
| D.C. voters overwhelmingly support legalizing marijuana, joining Colo., Wash. [03.11.2014] | Washington DC followed Colorado and Washington state into a closely watched experiment to legalize marijuana, as voters overwhelmingly backed an init ... |
| Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds [29.10.2014] | If D.C. residents vote to legalize marijuana possession next week, it wouldn’t just mean a sea change in drug policy in the nation’s capital. It coul ... |
| Grow your own marijuana law [25.10.2014] | Retail marijuana sales for adults are now legal (at least at the state level) in Colorado and Washington. Next month, voters in Alaska and Oregon may ... |
| The marijuana industry could be bigger than the NFL by 2020 [23.10.2014] | A report from Greenwave Advisors, a "comprehensive research and financial analysis for the emerging legalized marijuana industry," projects that lega ... |
| Pushing treaty limits? [19.10.2014] | Suppose the United States government helps to negotiate, and subsequently champions, certain framework treaties – ones justly viewed as imposing sign ... |
| How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place [16.10.2014] | No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brooking ... |
| International Impacts of the U.S. Trend towards Legal Marijuana [16.10.2014] | For decades, the United States has been a champion of the global drug control treaty system, which limits the use of marijuana exclusively to medical ... |
| Marijuana legalization is an opportunity to modernize international drug treaties [14.10.2014] | Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Su ... |
| State Department official calls for 'flexibility' on drug control treaties [13.10.2014] | Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield called for "flexible" interpretations of international drug control treaties at the United Nations in ... |
| US signals shift in international drug policy [12.10.2014] | In a press conference at the United Nations in New York on October 9, US official William Brownfield laid the groundwork for a new US approach to int ... |
| Yes to marijuana ballot measures [05.10.2014] | The decision by California voters in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana produced a wave of similar initiatives around the country. Less than two deca ... |
| Major pot legalization group turns sights on California for 2016 [23.09.2014] | Marijuana legalization proponents are turning their attention to California and gearing up for a legalization campaign in 2016. The Marijuana Policy ... |
| State-licensed marijuana market expected to bring in about $636 million in taxes [18.09.2014] | The Washington state’s legal recreational marijuana market is expected to bring in about $636 million in taxes to state coffers through the middle of ... |
| A crucial election season for legalizing marijuana and ending the drug war [17.09.2014] | It may be an off-year election, but it's a big one for drug policy reform... voters across the country will have a chance to accelerate the unprecede ... |
| New York could legalize recreational marijuana in 2015 [15.09.2014] | The state of New York could legalize marijuana for recreational use as early as 2015. State Sen. Liz Krueger (D) will reintroduce the Marijuana Regul ... |
| Washington judge upholds small city’s pot shop ban [28.08.2014] | A state judge said that a small city can continue to ban state-licensed marijuana businesses, in a case with big implications for Washington’s experi ... |
| This is your federalism on drugs [27.08.2014] | Conservative Republicans often talk about the need to constrain the power of the federal government. On everything from environmental regulation to e ... |
| Leading anti-marijuana academics are paid by painkiller drug companies [26.08.2014] | As Americans continue to embrace pot—as medicine and for recreational use—opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policy ... |
| Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado’s marijuana market [19.08.2014] | That the black market in Colorado bustles in the emerging days of legalisation is not unexpected. By some reckonings, it will continue as long as res ... |
| Banks are slowly welcoming legal marijuana dealers [12.08.2014] | A top federal official said that 105 banks and credit unions are doing business with legal marijuana sellers, suggesting that federal rules giving fi ... |
| The federal marijuana ban is rooted in myth and xenophobia [28.07.2014] | The federal law that makes possession of marijuana a crime has its origins in legislation that was passed in an atmosphere of hysteria during the 193 ... |
| The White House tries, fails to explain why marijuana should remain illegal [28.07.2014] | No sooner had the Times published its opening editorials advocating legalization of marijuana than the White House fired back with an unconvincing re ... |
| The injustice of marijuana arrests [27.07.2014] | America’s four-decade war on drugs is responsible for many casualties, but the criminalization of marijuana has been perhaps the most destructive par ... |
| Repeal Prohibition, Again [27.07.2014] | It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citiz ... |
| The Guardian view on overdue overhauling of US and global drug laws [27.07.2014] | The war on drugs has been a losing fight for 40 years. The response to unending failure has always been to demand more law enforcement and more priso ... |
| Drug courts, meant to aid addicts, now a battlefield of pot politics [25.07.2014] | Many longtime supporters of drug courts have become dismayed by the extent to which the courts now reach into the lives of people whose only infracti ... |
| Let states decide on marijuana [25.07.2014] | Repealing the Controlled Substances Act would allow the states to decide whether to permit marijuana use and under what conditions. Nearly three-four ... |
| Recreational marijuana qualifies for Oregon ballot [22.07.2014] | Oregon voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use after state elections officials said the measure qualified for the Novem ... |
| FDA to review marijuana safety [20.07.2014] | The United States federal government is considering easing its position on marijuana, reclassifying it as a less dangerous drug in what marijuana adv ... |
| DEA may be losing the war on marijuana politics [11.07.2014] | The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found itself under attack in Congress as it holds its ground against marijuana legalization while the r ... |
| The great pot experiment [11.07.2014] | On July 8th Washington became the second state after Colorado to offer recreational pot-smokers a chance to buy weed legally at a local store. Mariju ... |
| Washington state retail marijuana shops to open Tuesday [08.07.2014] | Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday, a day ahead of the start of legal sales. And 21 hours before the only store licen ... |
| Canada's 'Prince of Pot' to be released from U.S. prison [06.07.2014] | When the poster child for marijuana legalization is released from a U.S. prison later this week, he'll be re-entering a world where many of his ideas ... |
| Infographic: Legal weed's consequences [30.06.2014] | When recreational marijuana stores first opened their doors in the US state of Colorado on January 1, opponents predicted dire consequences: an influ ... |
| The real reason pot is still illegal [30.06.2014] | The Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest anti-legalization organizations in the US has a curious sponsor: Purdue Phar ... |
| Colorado recreational marijuana industry begins major transformation [29.06.2014] | Only six months old, Colorado's recreational marijuana industry starts a transformation that could add hundreds of new pot businesses to the state an ... |
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