Tag Archives: marijuana

From the news director of the Denver Post: Colorado will open the doors to legal recreational marijuana sales in the new year. We have been covering the medical marijuana industry for more than a decade. But last year, voters approved legalized recreational marijuana. We have written extensively about the research on marijuana, the regulation, the wrangling in the legislature, cooking …

Gallup reports: For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. And now for the first time, a clear majority of Americans (58%) say the drug should be legalized. This is in sharp contrast to the time Gallup first asked the …

Printed on the back of the bags is a listing of what is allowed under Washington state’s marijuana laws.

“The older brother was a marijuana smuggler, but the younger brother was a pothead and a dealer. The Boston Globe says three people admitted buying drugs from the 19-year-old. Perhaps if the drug laws were being vigorously enforced in liberal Massachusetts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could have been picked up by the authorities before joining his brother in the Boston bombing. Perhaps …

New York GOP Assemblyman Steve Katz, who is mostly known for his loud opposition to medical marijuana, has had a little run-in with the cops. In a mailing to constituents, the Yorktown Republican, who serves on the Assembly Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Committee, warned: “Our community has been stricken with an increase in drug use and drunk driving by our …

As the New York state legislature considers a bill to further decriminalize the possession of marijuana, New York City Major Michael Bloomberg has announced that those found with small amounts will no longer spend the night in jail. “I personally am not in favor of legalizing marijuana or any other drugs, I think it’s a dangerous thing,” Bloomberg said Friday …

Openly gay Rep. Jared Polis today introduced a House bill that would decriminalize the possession of marijuana and allow states to collect taxes on legal sales. Polis said he expects his measure could draw bipartisan support from fellow Democrats and from Republicans, especially those with Libertarian leanings. “The more states lead the way, the more pressure it puts on Congress …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that one of his top priorities for 2013 will be the further decriminalization of marijuana possession. Raw Story reports: Even if the governor fails to convince the legislature to go along on decriminalization, marijuana arrests are already destined to begin falling dramatically thanks to a recent court decision barring so-called “stop and …

I’m not sure what “crystal weed” might be, but this makes pretty much as much sense as the secession petitions.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will today ask the state legislature to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The move is meant to thwart the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which has been shown to overwhelmingly target black and Latino men. Reducing the impact of the Bloomberg administration’s stop-and-frisk policy has been a top priority of lawmakers from minority neighborhoods, …

So far 50% have chosen the first answer. Surprising? Or evidence of blind allegiance to Pat Robertson?

Calling the crackdown “no joke,” The Atlantic has more on the DOJ’s move to close California’s biggest legal marijuana dispensaries. On Friday, the DOJ issued a press release outlining its recent enforcement actions, and it’s clear the feds mean business. In addition to the 38 letters they sent out on Thursday giving dispensaries a 45-day ultimatum to close, they’ve indicted …

The federal government is sending letters to California’s legal pot dispensaries ordering them to close within 45 days. The state’s four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are to announce their coordinated crackdown …

Released in honor of today’s date.(Via – Dan Savage)

Wait, WHAT?

California’s Prop 19, which would have decriminalized the possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, has failed by a wide margin. The initiative would have eliminated all criminal penalties for adults 21 and older who planted marijuana in a plot of up to 25 square feet or possessed up to an ounce for personal use. It also would have …

As California prepares to vote on Proposition 19, which would decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana to the level of a parking ticket, NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) provides this snapshot of pot laws around the country. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)