January 2012
3 posts
Marijuana And Lungs: Study Finds Drug Doesn't Do... →
CHICAGO — Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn’t harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn’t do the kind of damage tobacco does.
December 2011
1 post
Does Newt Gingrich want you executed for smoking... →
Republican Presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to throw you in jail for smoking pot – he wants to execute you! As Speaker of the House back in 1996 – Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996” – a bill calling for the execution of anyone convicted more than once of carrying two ounces of marijuana across the border.
November 2011
5 posts
California and New Mexico Uniting on Legalization
It is rare for a politician to openly advocate the legalization of drugs as the solution to the country’s drug problem. But that’s just what California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson did this week at the four-day International Drug Policy Reform Conference in downtown Los Angeles.
As the Los Angeles Times remarks, with reggae music blasting and people...
October 2011
7 posts
Barney Frank (D) Boston
“The argument that federal policy should not be changed because no one actually enforces marijuana laws usually comes from older white people. No one enforces it against them, but there were more than 50,000 marijuana possession arrests in New York City last year,” Frank said. “Some say it’s a good way to go after potential criminals and cuts the murder rate. But the notion that you can justify...
Legalization in California gains major endorsement...
Reporting from Sacramento— The state’s largest doctor group is calling for legalization of marijuana, even as it pronounces cannabis to be of questionable medical value.
Trustees of the California Medical Assn., which represents more than 35,000 physicians statewide, adopted the position at their annual meeting in Anaheim late Friday. It is the first major medical association in the nation...
September 2011
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Oakland to host nation's 1st marijuana street fair... →
Oakland — Oakland has stayed at the forefront of the cannabis legalization movement, with advocates and city government working hand in hand for more than 15 years.
Now, folks will finally get the chance to light up outside City Hall. Legally, that is.
A cannabis street fair touted as the first in the nation is set for this weekend, featuring speakers, music, booths and vendors. But...
August 2011
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July 2011
1 post
June 2011
7 posts
On 40th Anniversary Of War On Drugs, Cops Decry...
WASHINGTON — Forty years after President Richard Nixon first declared a war on drugs, the officers who fought in it are calling for a truce.
Former law enforcement officials gathered in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to announce their new report. It details the failures of the government’s long battle against illegal drugs and denounces the Obama administration’s current...
states that have decriminalized
The following states have passed laws decriminalizing marijuana. Typically, decriminalization means no prison time or criminal record for first-time possession of a small amount for personal consumption. The conduct is treated like a minor traffic violation.
Alaska
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nebraska
Nevada
New York
North...
Connecticut decriminalizes Cannabis!
The state has decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Last week, the Senate narrowly approved the legislation that supporters call a common sense reform to the judicial system. On Tuesday, it passed the House, 90 to 57.
Gov. Dannel Malloy supports the measure, which would eliminate the misdemeanor offense from possession of less than a half-ounce of marijuana. Rather than a...
“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a...”
– Bill Hicks (via zeitgeistmovement)
Political leaders and public figures should have...
NEW YORK — The global war on drugs has failed and governments should explore legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances, according to a commission that includes former heads of state, a former U.N. secretary-general and a business mogul.
A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy argues that the decades-old “global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences...
May 2011
1 post
Bill to legalize medical marijuana in Delaware... →
DOVER, Del. — All that’s left to make medical marijuana legal in Delaware is the signature of the governor who has said he would make it law.
The bill would allow people 18 and older with certain serious or debilitating conditions that could be alleviated by marijuana to possess up to six ounces of the drug.
The state Senate on Wednesday by at 17-4 vote gave its approval to the bill that...
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
4 posts
Federal agency proclaims medical use for marijuana →
sexisold:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a division of the National Institute of Health, which is itself one of the 11 component agencies that make up the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Last week, the NCI quietly added to its treatment database a summary of marijuana’s medicinal benefits, including an acknowledgment that oncologists may recommend it to patients for...
February 2011
1 post
Legalizing Pot -- Is It Just a Matter of When? →
January 2011
3 posts
Watchmarijuanaisgoodforyou:
Colors of the Wind: Stoner Edition
December 2010
3 posts
WatchCue the video to about 3:02 and you will hear the head of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson, the guy who agreed with Falwell about “feminists, pagans, abortionists” and such causing the 9/11 attacks, the guy who claimed God sent Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for an upcoming gay pride festival, the former presidential candidate, endorse the legalization of “a couple of...
November 2010
16 posts
Willie Nelson Pot Bust: Singer Arrested For...
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.
Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.
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Arizona!
PHOENIX — A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona pulled ahead for the first time Friday, with both supporters and opponents saying they believed the proposal that went before voters on Election Day would pass.
Proposition 203 was ahead by 4,421 votes out of more than 1.63 million votes counted. The measure started out losing by about 7,200 votes on Nov. 2 and the gap...
Legalizing marijuana in 2012
Proponents of Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that would have legalized recreational use and possession of small amounts of marijuana, have vowed they will get pot back on the ballot in 2012.
“We have a debate that was just heard around the world and the conversation has only begun,” Dale Jones, a spokeswoman for Prop 19, said at a Wednesday news conference....
Watchmarijuanaisgoodforyou:
Stylish Legalize Marijuana promotion video!
