Items tagged with US drug policy
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| The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences [31.10.2013] | The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ... |
| Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture? [29.10.2013] | The growing societal acceptance of cannabis in the U.S. has sparked what some call a "green rush" of people trying to cash in on what is already a mu ... |
| New high: Majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana [22.10.2013] | For the first time, a majority of Americans, 58%, favor legalizing marijuana, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. That number was just 12% i ... |
| New laws chart course for marijuana legalization [19.10.2013] | Nearly a year after Colorado and Washington State voted to become the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the detailed rules governing h ... |
| Cannabis taxes will wind up too low, not too high [18.10.2013] | Legal cannabis will naturally be much, much cheaper than illegal cannabis. A joint is the same sort of item as a teabag: the dried flowers of a plant ... |
| California is poised to legalize marijuana in 2016 [16.10.2013] | According to a Tulchin Research poll a "solid majority" of nearly two-thirds (65%) in California supports legalizing, regulating and taxing adult rec ... |
| Washington approves rules for marijuana industry [15.10.2013] | Washington adopted rules for the recreational sale of marijuana, creating what advocates hope will be a template for the drug's legalization around t ... |
| Colorado faces historic challenge in regulating marijuana stores [14.10.2013] | As Colorado prepares for the opening of historic recreational marijuana stores, state officials are preparing for something equally as unique — a reg ... |
| After legalizing marijuana, Washington and Colorado are starting to regulate it [09.10.2013] | Nearly a year ago, Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana sales. Now it’s time to regulate them. The two states have taken slightly ... |
| Majority of Texas voters want to legalize marijuana [08.10.2013] | A majority of Texas voters support marijuana legalization, according to a recent survey. Public Policy Polling found that 58 percent of Texans "suppo ... |
| Cabinet to consider changes to ganja laws [06.10.2013] | Justice Minister Mark Golding says international events and changes in the United States - the chief opponent of Jamaica's decriminalisation efforts ... |
| Towards an International Drug Peace: A Perspective from Mexico [17.09.2013] | Jorge Hernández Tinajero, president of Mexico City’s Collective for a Holistic Policy Towards Drugs (CUPIHD), shares an international perspective on ... |
| 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 ... |
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