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New York Times Editorial Board Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana
July 26th, 2014 – By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished. It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban…
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Marijuana makes the ballot in Oregon
July 17, 2012 – Oregon voters will have a chance to make marijuana legal. The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, also known as Initiative 9, will appear as Measure 80 on the Oregon ballot in November. The official Twitter feed of the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division was used to make the announcement late Friday…
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Canada: Legalize Marijuana, former B.C. Attorneys-General say
February 15th, 2012 – Four former B.C. attorneys-general — Colin Gabelmann, Ujjal Dosanjh, Graeme Bowbrick and Geoff Plant — are calling for the legalization of cannabis. “No, I’m not smoking anything,” Dosanjh cracked when contacted. “It’s just time – 77 per cent of Canadians are telling us it’s time to change the law.” The former…
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Canada: Liberal Convention 2012: Federal Grits Vote To Legalize Marijuana
January 15, 2012 – The Liberal Party of Canada has voted to legalize pot. Seventy-seven per cent of delegates at the Liberals’ biennial convention told their party’s leadership Sunday morning that they want a future Liberal government to legalize marijuana. Their interim leader Bob Rae acknowledged the war on drugs hasn’t worked, but told reporters…
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Law Enforcement and Prohibition: Two Sides to Every Coin
June 18, 2011 – On its most basic level, the war on drugs is the constant confrontation between law enforcement and “illicit drug” users. While politicians make the policy, police and attorneys and judges must enforce laws that are often unenforceable at best, and get law enforcement officials killed at worst. While it can be…
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U.S. Can’t Justify its Drug War Spending, Reports Say
June 9, 2011 – As drug cartels wreak murderous havoc from Mexico to Panama, the Obama administration is unable to show that the billions of dollars spent in the war on drugs have significantly stemmed the flow of illegal narcotics into the United States, according to two government reports and outside experts. The reports specifically…
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Would Legalizing Pot be Good for the Environment?
May 16, 2011 – It is well known that legalizing pot could have great economic benefits in California and elsewhere by allowing the government to tax it (like it now does on liquor and cigarettes), by ending expensive and ongoing operations to eradicate it, and by keeping millions of otherwise innocent and non-violent marijuana offenders…
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Kentucky and Beyond: A Culture Tough on Marijuana makes a Hard Fight for Hemp
Lexington, KY – In the previous installment of this series on the potential of industrial hemp cultivation in Kentucky, I took issue with gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett’s indirect association with a local head shop, Botany Bay. Some consider the concept of guilt by association to be unfair in this case, but to me, such questions…
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Happy 420: Walk Hard Pot Smoking Scene-Video
