Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Former city Rep. Beto O'Rourke and city Rep. Susie Byrd's book offers new view on controlling pot market [21.11.2011] | Two prominent El Paso political leaders argue, in their new book, that the United States' war on drugs is not working despite a $1 trillion infusion ... |
| State's effort to legalize pot faces legal pitfalls [20.11.2011] | An effort to decriminalize and tax recreational marijuana sales for adults in Washington state has won some high-profile endorsements — including fro ... |
| Poll: Public supports medical marijuana, but not full pot legalization [18.11.2011] | According a recent CBS News poll conducted at the end of October, a slim majority of 51 percent continues to think that marijuana use should be illeg ... |
| Colorado's Marijuana 'Green Rush' [17.11.2011] | There are currently 16 states that allow some form of legalized medical marijuana, but only Colorado allows marijuana businesses to operate as such. ... |
| Will Marijuana Raids Be the New Normal if Pot-Legalizing I-502 Passes in Washington? [16.11.2011] | Cannabis-rights activists who oppose the marijuana-legalization initiative I-502 do so for many reasons, including the notion that should the bill pa ... |
| Pot measure is tough sell at cop conference [16.11.2011] | I-502 has about 230,000 signatures and almost certainly will qualify for the November 2012 ballot. If I-502 were to pass, the state Liquor Control Bo ... |
| Vet to Feds: Enough Stonewalling, Give Us Pot for PTSD [16.11.2011] | “My life went downhill from the moment I came back from Iraq,” Begin, now a 31-year-old veteran. “Doctors at Bethesda had me on so much, and on such ... |
| Cannabis crackdown threatens legal trade in 'medical marijuana' [14.11.2011] | The Internal Revenue Service, America's tax collecting agency, sent a letter demanding an initial $2.5 million in back taxes and characterised the Ha ... |
| California court rules cities, counties can ban pot stores [11.11.2011] | In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities ... |
| How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime [11.11.2011] | This contradicts one of the central tenets of the War on Drugs, which is that the psychopharmacological effects of drug use lead to criminal behavior ... |
| Sign Initiative 502 to put marijuana legalization before state Legislature [11.11.2011] | A former federal prosecutor and two former judges who have not only observed but also enforced marijuana laws at the federal, state and local levels ... |
| It's Only A Matter Of Time [08.11.2011] | GOP presidential candidate Gary Johnson drew headlines earlier this month when he said he would issue a full presidential pardon for anyone serving a ... |
| Reefer Madness [06.11.2011] | Marijuana is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American ... |
| Lawsuits filed to block federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries [04.11.2011] | Lawsuits were filed today in federal courts in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in a move to block efforts by U.S. attorneys to c ... |
| Integrative Medicine: Legalization and regulation of cannabis [04.11.2011] | The California Medical Association made news when it became the first state medical association to recommend the legalization and regulation of canna ... |
| Federal policy toward medical-pot businesses remains puzzling [04.11.2011] | Fifteen years after the first state legalized medical marijuana — and set up a confrontation with federal law that keeps cannabis illegal — federal l ... |
| Decriminalize pot, aldermen urge — but mayor says not so fast [02.11.2011] | Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he would not be rushed into decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana because doing so creates its o ... |
| Viewpoints: Patient safety is priority in medical pot policy [01.11.2011] | Recently, the California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians, the largest statewide physician organization in America, bold ... |
| Congress on Speed [01.11.2011] | If Congress were functioning properly, it would take the time to consider the many potential improvements in drug policy that could save lives by pre ... |
| California Medical Assn. support of marijuana legalization has doctors talking [31.10.2011] | The California Medical Assn.'s recent decision to support marijuana legalization has drawn mixed opinions from physicians and others. At the same tim ... |
| Rep. Sam Farr, House members question California pot club crackdown [31.10.2011] | Several members of California's congressional delegation are taking their concerns about a federal crackdown on the state's medical marijuana dispens ... |
| Justice Dept. memo writer is mum on pot crackdown [26.10.2011] | A high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official who wrote a memo saying state medical marijuana laws do not provide immunity from federal prosecution ... |
| Federal judge blocks Florida’s new law requiring that welfare applicants pass drug test [24.10.2011] | A federal judge temporarily blocked Florida’s new law that requires welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits on Monday, sayin ... |
| Obama's misguided crackdown on medical marijuana [24.10.2011] | Why is the U.S. government cracking down on medical marijuana, a $1.7 billion business — and one of the few that seems to be thriving in a moribund ec ... |
| Medical marijuana - lost in the haze of state law [23.10.2011] | Californians need to be honest with themselves: The marijuana industry that is flourishing in plain sight is not really about medicine. No question, ... |
| Editorial: Feds' pot crackdown bad medicine [21.10.2011] | In the design of America's founders, the states are supposed to be centers of democratic experiment. They're not supposed to be uniform. For example, ... |
| In a Strange About-Face, the President Tries to Hack Medical Marijuana Off at the Knees [20.10.2011] | The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by California's four U.S. Attorneys sent chills through the industry. It was a ... |
| Legalizing drugs isn’t the answer [20.10.2011] | Most of us can agree that current drug policy in North America is a disaster. The global war on drugs can’t be won. Locking up addicts in jail is bot ... |
| Backlash to Crackdown Grows [19.10.2011] | Marijuana activists in California are gearing up this week for a flurry of statewide protests during President Obama's October 25 visit to the Bay Ar ... |
| California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It? [19.10.2011] | Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that ... |
| 50% of Americans support legalizing marijuana: poll [18.10.2011] | An unprecedented 50 percent of Americans think it's high time that marijuana should become legal in the United States, according to a Gallup poll. Th ... |
| Federal crackdown on medical pot sales reflects a shift in policy [07.10.2011] | The Obama administration's crackdown on California's highly profitable medical marijuana industry represents a dramatic departure from the low-key app ... |
| Feds escalate efforts to close California pot shops [07.10.2011] | Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California, sending letters that warn landlords to stop sal ... |
| U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed [30.09.2011] | A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to ... |
| Four pot smokers get their stash from U.S. government under little-known program [28.09.2011] | For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around as part of a little-known program t ... |
| Cocaine's becoming king in Peru [24.09.2011] | For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That h ... |
| US teens smoke more pot than Dutch [21.09.2011] | A new study, What Can We Learn from the Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop System?, published in the journal Addiction earlier this month challenged the Unite ... |
| Medical pot OK in Seattle, in trouble in Spokane [18.09.2011] | The largest federal crackdown in the 13-year history of the state medical-marijuana law has sent Spokane's once-open medical-marijuana businesses div ... |
| America’s prisons: A catching sickness [03.09.2011] | Harsh laws for selling or possessing of drugs are a public-policy disaster. Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examine ... |
| Mexico's Narco-Epiphany: Is Calderón Suggesting the U.S. Legalize Drugs? [30.08.2011] | The central statistic of Mexico's violent drug war – 40,000 gangland murders in the past five years – is repeated so often it almost fails to alarm u ... |
| With few rules, pot dispensaries try policing themselves [26.08.2011] | In the absence of government regulation, the local medical-marijuana industry increasingly is trying to professionalize the industry with such self-po ... |
| Majority of Americans ready to legalize marijuana [09.08.2011] | Many Americans continue to believe that marijuana should be legalized, but are not supportive of making other drugs readily available, a new Angus Re ... |
| Medical marijuana: The Justice Department speaks – again [08.08.2011] | Medical marijuana suppliers complain that the Justice Department is tightening the federal government's approach to enforcement. That's a disingenuou ... |
| A miscarriage of justice on marijuana [04.08.2011] | As if America's highly-publicised "war on drugs" were not already facing a credibility gap, two US superior court judges – one in Washington, DC, ano ... |
| Federal judge rules Florida drug law unconstitutional [29.07.2011] | A federal judge has declared Florida's drug law unconstitutional, potentially throwing thousands of criminal cases into jeopardy. U.S. District Judge ... |
| Obama’s Drug Policy: Yet Another Broken Promise [28.07.2011] | When Obama first took office in 2009, he promised a drug policy more focused on public health. However, recent statements from the DEA and raids on m ... |
| The Pot Republic [26.07.2011] | The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it i ... |
| New California marijuana ballot measure starts circulating [25.07.2011] | A new marijuana legalization ballot measure was cleared Monday to start seeking petition signatures. But its proponents aren't affiliated with the Oa ... |
| Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging [24.07.2011] | Four decades ago, on 17 July 1971, President Richard Nixon declared what has come to be called the "war on drugs". Nixon told Congress that drug addi ... |
| Legal Marijuana in Arizona, but Not for the Sellers [22.07.2011] | Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative last November allowing medical marijuana in the state, but the result has been just the opposite of an o ... |
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