Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Cannabis industry, advocates trying to find right balance on marijuana legalization [08.12.2015] | Business and advocates both play a key role in furthering marijuana legalization, but finding the ideal balance is proving difficult. That was partic ... |
| Decriminalizing drugs: When treatment replaces prison [07.12.2015] | Cities all over the US are copying Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program, in which police officers put low-level drug offenders into t ... |
| Big Marijuana is coming — and even legalization supporters are worried [02.12.2015] | Ohioans rejected a very unusual marijuana legalization proposal. Beyond legalizing pot, the ballot initiative would have given campaign donors direct ... |
| Heroin, survivor of War on Drugs, returns with new face [21.11.2015] | United States military operations in Afghanistan, now in their 15th year, are routinely described as America’s longest war. For overseas combat, that ... |
| Two months after Oregon legalization, pot saturation sends profits up in smoke [20.11.2015] | Along North-east Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon, there’s a stretch known as the “Green Mile”. Here, medical marijuana dispensaries are budding. ... |
| Govt urged to secure share of international ganja market [15.11.2015] | President of the Westmoreland Hemp and Ganja Farmers Association Ras Iyah is urging the Government of Jamaica to "align" with other countries to secu ... |
| US endorses Mexico’s marijuana legalization ruling [08.11.2015] | The United States has backed a decision made by Mexico’s Supreme Court that paves the way for the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes ... |
| Ohio vote was against monopoly not marijuana, say campaigners [03.11.2015] | Marijuana legalization advocates in Ohio are turning their attention to 2016, after voters rejected a constitutional amendment to legalize recreation ... |
| After Ohio’s vote, these states will determine the future of legal marijuana [02.11.2015] | Drug law reformers in at least 16 states have already got ballot measures in the works for next year, according to vote-tracking site Ballotpedia. Tw ... |
| On ballot, Ohio grapples with specter of marijuana monopoly [31.10.2015] | Ohio lawyer Don Wirtshafter has fought for decades to make marijuana legal, calling it “my life’s work.” But when Ohio voters go to the polls to cons ... |
| As prohibition crumbles, cannabis consumers are less apt to abuse it [21.10.2015] | Contrary to what prohibitionists assume, the increase in marijuana-related problems following legalization may not be proportional to the increase in ... |
| In U.S., 58% back legal marijuana use [21.10.2015] | A majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the United States, with 58% holding that view, tying the high point in Gallu ... |
| Canada's newly elected Liberals may legalize marijuana [19.10.2015] | With the Liberal Party's electoral victory in Canada, the US's northern neighbors could soon undertake an enormous change in drug policy: marijuana l ... |
| Cannabis research 'being stifled' by US government, says think tank [19.10.2015] | In a new report, Ending the U.S. government’s war on medical marijuana research, researchers at the Brookings Institution call on the federal governm ... |
| Oregon legalizes pot, and nobody cares [12.10.2015] | Oregon is the third American state to legalize recreational marijuana sales, following neighboring Washington, where legal pot debuted in the summer ... |
| Oregon marijuana legalization challenges US drug policy [02.10.2015] | Oregon joined Colorado and Washington in implementing a commercial cannabis market. Alaska, which also legalized marijuana through a ballot initiativ ... |
| Oregon becomes third U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales [01.10.2015] | Marijuana sales for recreational use began in Oregon on October 1 as it joined Washington state and Colorado in allowing the sale of a drug that rema ... |
| Cannabis regulation in Colorado [30.09.2015] | The core argument made by opponents of legal regulation is that any regulated market for cannabis would inevitably fuel a significant rise in use and ... |
| Bolivia stands up to US with coca-control policy [29.09.2015] | The Habeas Coca report, published by Open Society Foundations in July, found that Bolivia slashed its illicit coca production by 34 percent over the ... |
| The White House blacklisted Bolivia for growing coca while US states sell legal weed [15.09.2015] | The US has "decertified" Bolivia over what it calls a failure to comply with the UN drug control conventions, despite recent data showing the country ... |
| Young hands in Mexico feed growing U.S. demand for heroin [29.08.2015] | As heroin addiction soars in the United States, a boom is underway south of the border, reflecting the two nations’ troubled symbiosis. Officials fro ... |
| Drug sentences rise, while time served for other crimes falls [26.08.2015] | A Pew study shows that sentences for Americans convicted of federal drug crimes rose 36% — an average of 20 months — in 30 years, while sentences for ... |
| Mexico lost its war on drugs 75 years ago, author claims [25.08.2015] | Mexico’s drug trade is synonymous with violence, corruption and cartel bosses battling for territory. But it could have been so different, it’s claim ... |
| Pioneer pot states have collected more than $200 million in marijuana taxes [25.08.2015] | The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana have collectively raked in at least $200 million in marijuana tax revenue, according to the l ... |
| Ohio prepares to vote on marijuana legalization: which states will be next? [16.08.2015] | Thus far, Ohio is the only state where voters will consider pot legalization in the 2015 election. But that’s not because many states aren’t already ... |
| Ohio's legal weed proposal could create the world’s first 'pot grower oligarchy' [15.08.2015] | Ohio voters will have the opportunity to legalize the commercial cultivation and sale of cannabis this November, including for medical marijuana pati ... |
| Obama calls for shorter sentences for nonviolent convicts [13.07.2015] | Calling it an issue America can’t afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision for fixing the criminal justice system. “In f ... |
| It's official: Marijuana is medicine [30.06.2015] | The nation's top medical organization released a major series of papers on medical cannabis last week in the Journal of the American Medical Associat ... |
| So you want to legalize weed? [27.06.2015] | Up and down the Western Hemisphere, marijuana policy is a growing topic of discussion, and laws are starting to change. In 2014, retail marijuana sto ... |
| Using pot to be legal in Oregon — but not selling it [27.06.2015] | Pot stashes in Oregon are legal — up to 8 ounces. So is the homegrown, up to four plants a household. The legalization of recreational marijuana July ... |
| US marijuana legalisation has not led to rise in use by adolescents, study finds [16.06.2015] | Legalising the medical use of cannabis has not led to a surge in the numbers of adolescents using it in the USA, according to new research that surpr ... |
| Drug warriors are still crying 'reefer madness.' The facts don't support them [14.06.2015] | In their op-ed article against cannabis legalization, former drug czar William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn yearn for a time when fear-mongering, not ... |
| Budget bill outlaws pot sales in D.C. for 2 years [10.06.2015] | House Republicans advanced a budget plan that would prevent legal sales of marijuana in the District until at least 2017. Advocates for legalization, ... |
| Monitoring legal pot: How do we know if it works? [09.06.2015] | Dozens of government officials and researchers from a half-dozen U.S. states and a few countries that have legalized marijuana or are at least thinki ... |
| Marijuana incorporated: cannabis eases into a billion-dollar business high [22.05.2015] | Now legalised in 23 states and the District of Columbia for medical use and four states – Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska – and DC for recrea ... |
| How America overdosed on drug courts [18.05.2015] | Drug courts celebrated their 25th anniversary last year. Hailed as the most compassionate way for the criminal justice system to deal with addicts, d ... |
| Defying U.S., Colombia halts aerial spraying of crops used to make cocaine [13.05.2015] | The government of Colombia rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign — ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country’s v ... |
| Obama asked to weigh in on legal marijuana [04.05.2015] | The US Supreme Court has asked President Barack Obama's administration to take a stance on legal marijuana as it considers a lawsuit seeking to ban C ... |
| Legislature considering plans to regulate medicinal pot shops, growers [02.05.2015] | California lawmakers are wading into the politically sticky issue of regulating medical marijuana, laying groundwork for state control of the sale an ... |
| New England states racing to legalize recreational pot [02.05.2015] | Propelled by successful campaigns in Western states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, some advocates and legislators say a marijuana leg ... |
| The painful price of aging in prison [01.05.2015] | In recent years, federal sentencing guidelines have been revised, resulting in less severe prison terms for low-level drug offenders. But tens of tho ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [28.04.2015] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| Why are politicians still referring to marijuana as a gateway drug? [20.04.2015] | With states legalizing marijuana by popular vote, some politicians, including Boston mayor Marty Walsh and New Jersey governor Chris Christie, are st ... |
| In debate over legalizing marijuana, disagreement over drug’s dangers [13.04.2015] | Public opinion about legalizing marijuana in the US, while little changed in the past few years, has undergone a dramatic long-term shift. A new surv ... |
| US president cautions against hopes of ganja legalisation [10.04.2015] | President Barack Obama cautioned persons who have hopes of marijuana being legalised, as he explained the difference between legalisation and decrimi ... |
| U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades [07.04.2015] | For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA ... |
| Big need for marijuana banking, yet Congress has ‘no appetite’ to fix issue [03.04.2015] | Congress doesn’t have the appetite to deal with the conflict between federal and state laws that has caused a banking crisis for the burgeoning marij ... |
| Marijuana cultivation in California is sucking streams dry, says new report [27.03.2015] | With its dense forests, foggy climate and rugged coastline, California’s Humboldt County has long been synonymous with its biggest cash crop: marijua ... |
| D.C. hosts nation’s biggest legal marijuana giveaway [26.03.2015] | With D.C. police officers looking on, hundreds of city residents lined up and then walked away from an Adams Morgan restaurant carrying baggies conta ... |
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