Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Legal marijuana: US defends decision not to challenge two states' laws [12.09.2013] | Deputy Attorney General James Cole told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that federal prosecutors and agents are prepared to focus aggressiv ... |
| Senate Hearings Reveal Marijuana Businesses May Get Banking [09.09.2013] | Today, the United States Senate did something for the first time in history. It held a hearing on how the federal government could draw a roadmap tow ... |
| John McCain: ‘Maybe we should legalize’ pot [09.09.2013] | Drug war hawk John McCain is turning pot dove. McCain appears open to making a dramatic shift on marijuana policy, saying during a town-hall meeting ... |
| Obama administration will not block state marijuana laws, if distribution is regulated [28.08.2013] | The Obama administration said that it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as long as those states maintain ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas (Version 2) [15.08.2013] | At the root of the drug policy debate in Latin America is growing recognition that present policies have failed to achieve the desired objectives, th ... |
| Justice Dept. seeks to curtail stiff drug sentences [13.08.2013] | In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to om ... |
| The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy [28.05.2013] | Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. This figure shows that street drug price ... |
| How to Legalize Pot [19.05.2013] | The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. “A ... |
| Fate of LA pot shops left to voters [18.05.2013] | Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighb ... |
| Wash. set to release draft rules for pot industry [16.05.2013] | They've spent nearly eight months visiting marijuana grow houses, studying the science of getting high and earning nicknames like "the queen of weed. ... |
| Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering [15.05.2013] | In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counte ... |
| Colorado Senate gives final approval to historic marijuana bills [08.05.2013] | The Colorado Senate gave final approval to two new bills to implement marijuana legalization, inching the state legislature closer to becoming the fi ... |
| Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom? [06.05.2013] | Many Washington residents are looking to cash in on the newly legal and potentially lucrative marijuana market, which they hope will give them a new ... |
| In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04.05.2013] | Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles ag ... |
| Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03.05.2013] | There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Obama’s visit to Mexico. That’s because Mexican President Peña Nieto is ... |
| Maine panel hears case for marijuana legalization [03.05.2013] | With other states already starting to allow the legal use of marijuana, Maine needs to get ahead of the issue and legalize, regulate and tax the sale ... |
| A rising marijuana reform tide at the Statehouses [30.04.2013] | In the wake of the marijuana legalization victories in Colorado and Washington last November, and buoyed by a series of national public opinion polls ... |
| DEA: Warning letters to 11 pot dispensaries don’t signal war on state law [30.04.2013] | The Drug Enforcement Administration sent cease-and-desist letters to 11 medical-marijuana dispensaries because they are within 1,000 feet of schools ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Colorado lawmakers discussing marijuana-legalization repeal effort [26.04.2013] | A proposal that could lead to the repeal of marijuana legalization in Colorado has gained momentum at the state Capitol. The repeal would be linked t ... |
| The Next Step in Drug Treatment [25.04.2013] | The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New ... |
| New law’s pot definition impairs criminal cases [23.04.2013] | Prosecutors and crime-lab scientists say a little-noticed provision in Washington’s new law legalizing recreational marijuana has jeopardized their a ... |
| The Issue: Discord between state, federal marijuana laws just crazy [20.04.2013] | In 21 states, consumers can legally buy marijuana for legal or recreational use even though the substance still is illegal under federal law. New law ... |
| Colorado legislature unveils long-awaited marijuana regulation bills [19.04.2013] | Lawmakers introduced a long-awaited bill of proposed regulations for recreational marijuana, moving Colorado one step closer to a legal pot marketpla ... |
| Wash. delays pot grower, processor licenses [16.04.2013] | Washington state is delaying its timeline for granting marijuana growing and processing licenses - and that means legal marijuana sales likely won't ... |
| Alaska voters on track to decide in 2014 whether to legalize pot [15.04.2013] | Alaska voters likely will get a chance next year to make their state the third in the country to approve the recreational use of marijuana by adults ... |
| Bill introduced in Congress would fix conflict between state, federal marijuana laws [12.04.2013] | A bill introduced in Congress would fix the conflict between the federal government’s marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recr ... |
| State pot-growing licenses may be delayed [09.04.2013] | Washington state may delay issuing licenses to grow pot by a couple months, according to state Liquor Control Board Deputy Director Rick Garza. In it ... |
| Colorado lawmakers may let pot growers and sellers operate separately [09.04.2013] | Colorado lawmakers stood the state's current model for marijuana businesses on its head, endorsing a proposal that would allow recreational pot store ... |
| A map that shows the dramatic spread of legal weed in the US [07.04.2013] | Looking at the recent spread of liberalized marijuana laws across the United States, it's hard not to think we're entering some kind of Weed Spring. ... |
| Is the war on drugs nearing an end? [07.04.2013] | For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguing that the ... |
| Majority of Americans support legalization of marijuana [05.04.2013] | Public support for legalizing marijuana has never been higher, but the latest studies show recreational use is linked with prescription drug misuse. ... |
| Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure [31.03.2013] | "Since declaring a war on drugs 40 years ago, the United States has spent more than a trillion dollars, arrested more than 45 million people, and rac ... |
| Consultant: Tax revenues on pot won’t be half of what’s projected [29.03.2013] | Washington’s new pot consultant has one overarching, discouraging message for lawmakers and state budget writers: don’t look at weed as an ATM. Poten ... |
| Yes we cannabis [26.03.2013] | Last November ballot initiatives legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational marijuana use passed for the first time ever in Colorado and Washing ... |
| Pot is legal in Washington: Q&A with the man who is making weed legit [25.03.2013] | Washington state gets ready to regulate legal marijuana with the help of one of America’s top drug policy analysts. Mark Kleiman is professor of publ ... |
| Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana [22.03.2013] | A number of businesses in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry are trying to enlist Wall Street's help. Some entrepreneurs see marijuana heading dow ... |
| Shafer Commission Report on Marijuana and Drugs, issued 40 years ago, was ahead of its time [22.03.2013] | Forty years ago, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse said in its final report: "A coherent social policy requires a fundamental alter ... |
| No consensus on changes to Washington marijuana law [21.03.2013] | House Bill 2000, the bill by Rep. Chris Hurst, D-Enumclaw, to modify Initiative 502, marijuana legalization, offers a mix of changes that could help ... |
| Federal bill to legalize marijuana gains support in Congress [21.03.2013] | Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) joined the effort to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating marijuana like alcohol at the federal ... |
| Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules [20.03.2013] | Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to his c ... |
| Portland groups push to legalize pot possession in the city [19.03.2013] | A coalition of political groups and activists say marijuana possession should be legalized in Maine’s largest city, in part because they say the drug ... |
| State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization [19.03.2013] | Washington state’s chief pot consultant remains a bit mysterious, but Mark Kleiman's views on legalizing pot are no mystery. He lays them out in “Mar ... |
| UCLA expert’s team to advise state on new pot rules [17.03.2013] | Washington has tentatively chosen professor Mark Kleiman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be its official marijuana consultant ... |
| Support for marijuana legalization drags among state’s congressional delegation [15.03.2013] | Washington voters acted boldly last November to begin reforming our nation’s failed policy on marijuana. It was an act of leadership, in stark contra ... |
| Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol [15.03.2013] | An ad-hoc committee of 10 House and Senate members started work reviewing 165 pages of recommended regulations from a task force that worked for more ... |
| Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores [14.03.2013] | A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the stat ... |
| Meet state’s ‘go-to guy’ on marijuana [14.03.2013] | Randy Simmons might have the most interesting job in Washington state. He is the ganja guru for the state agency charged with implementing the new le ... |
| Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S. [13.03.2013] | The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Cont ... |
| Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [05.03.2013] | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and W ... |
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