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New York State Assembly Passes Bill to Fix Marijuana Decriminalization Law
In Last Decade, Police Spent 1 Million Hours Arresting Nearly 500,000 People for Possessing Small Amounts of Marijuana, Costing Taxpayers $600 Million ALBANY, NY — The New York State Assembly passed a marijuana arrest reform bill Wednesday that could end the state’s racially biased, costly and unlawful marijuana arrest crusade. The legislation, Assembly Bill 6716, fixes
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Groups Seek to Legalize Pot Possession in Portland
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ Supporters of legalizing marijuana possession in Maine’s largest city say they’ve collected more than twice the number of signatures needed to put the question up for a vote. Organizers say they’ll submit petitions with more than 3,000 signatures to Portland city officials on Thursday to get a question on the ballot
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Colorado becomes world’s first legal, fully regulated market for recreational marijuana
Call it the mile-high state. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper made history Tuesday, signing two bills that make his state the first place in the world to fully regulate the recreational use of marijuana for adults. Flanked by legislators and pot legalization activists at the Colorado State Capitol, Hickenlooper signed two bills that lay out the framework
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Aging Baby Boomers Could Help Florida Medical Marijuana Effort
Florida lawmakers made it clear this session that they are not interested in legalizing marijuana. A bill to allow medical marijuana never got a hearing, and the state enacted a new ban on certain smoking pipes to further crack down on illegal marijuana use. But recent polling shows Florida citizens are seeing through the haze. In a
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Recreational marijuana: How Colorado plans to regulate the pot market
Colorado made history Tuesday when Governor John Hickenlooper signed six billsinto law that will govern the cultivation, sale, and taxation of recreational marijuana, creating the first legal framework in the U.S. for recreational marijuana use. Last November, Coloradans voted to approve a constitutional amendment on recreational marijuana. The measure, Amendment 64, will allow Colorado adults–21 and
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Colorado governor to sign a series of new marijuana laws on taxes, regulations, more on Tuesday
DENVER – Colorado’s governor is scheduled to sign a series of bills to regulate and tax legal marijuana. Gov. John Hickenlooper planned a Tuesday morning signing ceremony for six measures related Amendment 64, passed by voters last year. Amendment 64 allows adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. It also would
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Cannabis Crisis
Medical Pot Purveyors Protest Amendment They Claim Could Put Them Out of Business The state legislature enters a special session this week to finish the work of passing a budget bill. But this year, the nuts-and-bolts legislation has become a flash point for medical marijuana activists, some of whom oppose a budget rider that would
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Govt to ban more substances found in synthetic cannabis
The Government has moved to ban two more substances found in samples of K2 synthetic cannabis, which has been linked to serious medical conditions including psychotic episodes. Synthetic cannabis is being sold at dairies and stores throughout New Zealand. Photo / Dean Purcell Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne today said a Temporary Class Drug Notice
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Marijuana Cannon Not Needed, Florida To Legalize Medical Pot
Tallahassee, FL – A marijuana cannon may soon be unnecessary to get illegal drugs into Florida. A new Florida bill seeks to legalize medical marijuana for those suffering from debilitating medical conditions. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, efforts to legalize marijuana, or cannabis, for medical purposes has been picking up steam in recent years. Washington State and Colorado saw marijuana
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Senate Committee To Vote On Industrial Hemp Bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee will vote Monday on a bill that would allow Kentucky farmers to grow industrial hemp. A number of high-profile supporters are expected to testify in support of Senate Bill 50. U.S. Senator Rand Paul and Representatives John Yarmuth and Thomas Massie and former CIA director James Woolsey will testify in front
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State Sen. Leach makes an economic case for legalizing marijuana in Pennsylvania
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO This Jan. 26, 2013 photo taken at a grow house in Denver shows a marijuana plants ready to be harvested. Last fall, voters made Washington and Colorado the first states to pass laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and setting up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where
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We must get it right on implementation of legal marijuana
In the 2012 election, voters took a historic step towards changing the war on drugs in Washington state in regards to marijuana. As the Liquor Control Board began to examine how to implement this new system, some advocates have said that Washington needs to do this right, and quickly. The state must get it right,
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Marijuana Breaking News: Can Pot Save Nevada?
Senior Assemblyman Joseph Hogan and freshman Andrew Martin both from Las Vegas, will introduce Marijuana Legalization Bill in Nevada Stephen H Frye, M.D., a long time drug reform activist, and author of “Monumental Fiasco, Our Drug War!,” today secured a commitment from two Nevada Assemblymen to submit a bill to the Nevada legislature to legalize
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California Medical Marijuana Ban: State Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Cannabis Clubs
These are trying times for California’s medical marijuana dispensaries. Not only has a zealous U.S. Attorney launched a significant crackdown, but pot clubs across the state are increasingly being targeted by blanket bans from local municipalities looking to keep their cities and towns drug free–or, at least, force patients and their caretakers to grow their marijuana
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Two House Dems on recreational marijuana: Legalize it
When voters in Colorado and Washington state voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use last November, some wondered how the new statewide statutes would square with federal law, which still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act. But Rep. Jared Polis, D-Col., believes that a legal confrontation can be avoided: on
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Will Washington Legalize Weed?
In California, marijuana was legalized for medicinal use in 1996, and now in Washington State, a new initiative, I-502, will make the drug legal for persons over 21. Its biggest advocates are Seattle’s elite and members of law enforcement, reports Time magazine, because they say the war on drugs has failed. “We’ve tried criminalization. It’s an abject
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Op-ed: Rick Steves on why he is co-sponsoring Initiative 502 to legalize marijuana
MARIJUANA use is a serious, expensive and persistent challenge in our society. And it’s time for a new approach. That’s why I’m co-sponsoring Initiative 502 on the Nov. 6 ballot, which will legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, allowing adults 21 and over to buy up to one ounce from state-licensed stores. Initiative 502 is not
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Up in smoke: How Gary Johnson and a Colorado marijuana initiative could cost Obama the election
BOULDER, Colorado—Dressed in a sports jacket, a faded peace-symbol T-shirt and blue jeans, the Libertarian presidential candidateGary Johnson was playing to a rapturous overflow crowd at the University of Colorado. The man who could be the Ralph Nader of 2012 beguiled his largely male, mostly student audience with his views on the second-biggest issue on the Colorado ballot this
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Legal marijuana backers raise $3 million in two US states
Aug 25 (Reuters) – Campaigns to become the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Washington and Colorado have raised $3 million ahead of a November vote, far outpacing the opposition. Proponents of pot legalization in Washington state have raised nearly $2 million since the initiative qualified for the ballot in January,
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Medical marijuana on ballot
A Fayetteville-based group has taken one big step toward legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes only, bringing the measure to popular vote in the November general election. Arkansans for Compassionate Care (ACC), the proposed law’s sponsor, began its campaign to collect the needed 62,507 signatures from registered voters after Attorney General Dustin McDaniel certified the initiative
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Ballot language approved for marijuana proposal in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – City Commission this morning approved ballot language for a marijuana proposal that voters will consider in November. A city charter amendment sought by Decriminalize GR would make possession and use of marijuana a civil infraction enforced with a ticket, and prohibit Grand Rapids authorities from referring violations for criminal prosecution under
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Legalizing marijuana could bring windfall to state, if feds don’t object
The initiative to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana in Washington was estimated on Friday to raise up to $1.9 billion in new tax revenue over five years — or zero. The wild swing, included in an analysis by the state Office of Financial Management, reflects broad uncertainty about the potential federal intervention in an initiative
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Bill to stop medical cannabis dispensary seizures introduced in Congress
With recent federal crackdowns on medical cannabis dispensaries across California, a bill that would stop the federal government from seizing lawful dispensaries — such as the one that was closed down in Berkeley in May — was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives last week. The legislation — introduced by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, D-Oakland,
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