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Drug Legalization 1970
Along with exhortation and warning, it might be good for our citizens to recall (or learn for the first time) that the United States was the creation of men who believed that each man has the right to do what he wants with his own life as long as he does not interfere with his neighbor’s pursuit of happiness (that his neighbor’s idea of happiness is persecuting others does confuse matters a bit). … Now one can hear the warning rumble begin: if everyone is allowed to take drugs everyone will and the GNP will decrease, the Commies will stop us from making everyone free, and we shall end up a race of Zombies, passively murmuring ” groovie ” ((sic – I’ve never seen the word spelled this way, but hey, it was published in the New York Times, so maybe a variant spelling?))
Illinois: First day of recreational marijuana sales begins
Cannabis is legal for adults to consume in Illinois as of this morning. Amazing. I’d visited Amsterdam for a week in early 1990s, so I knew it was theoretically possible for governments to allow consumption of plants, but I did not think it would happen in America in my lifetime. Happy to be proven wrong.
With Illinois medical pot market poised to expand, high-profile national chain is buying Oak Park dispensary
But to me the bigger story is that the upcoming gubernatorial race is about cannabis legalization in Illinois…
Canadian cannabis workers targeted by U.S. border guards for lifetime bans
As tensions between Canada and the U.S. have risen in recent months, a quieter, slower-burning conflict has been developing along the border: Canadians associated with the cannabis industry — even if they have never used the drug — can be banned for life from America.
Cook County Voters Give Firm Yes on Legalizing Recreational Marijuana
Cook County voters on Tuesday voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana use in Illinois
GOP Platform Hypocrisies 2016 Edition
Seems like Ted Cruz and his sour band of Christian Taliban won the primary after all. Sad!
Quick Hitters – 11-18-15
Some additional reading for you, because I care…
The Ridiculous Required White House Response on Marijuana
When the White House issued a statement last night saying that marijuana should remain illegal — responding to our pro-legalization editorial series — officials there weren’t just expressing an opinion. They were following the law. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is required by statute to oppose all efforts to legalize any banned drug.
Beer Baron John Hickenlooper Hates The Cannabis Competition
What nearly amuses me is that Beer Baron John Hickenlooper is so opposed, still, to citizens of his state taking positive steps towards ending the ridiculous drug war in the US. No, if Gov Hickenlooper had his way, only beer should be legal…
Reefer Roadshow Asks Seniors to Support Medical Pot
Then she attended a presentation at the local L’Dor Va-Dor synagogue in April put on by a group called the Silver Tour. The group aims to persuade seniors to support legislation to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes in Florida. A series of speakers, including a doctor, a patient and several advocates, argued that pot was just what the silver-haired set needed to combat conditions like chronic pain and insomnia.
Ms. Yeshion was sold. “I want to get some cannabis,” she said afterward, with a big smile. “I have pain in my back, so it would be nice. Damn it to hell, I want to try it once in my lifetime.”
A Battle With the Brewers on Pine Ridge
Second, and this is just wild speculation, what would happen if the Pine Ridge Reservation legalized booze sales, but vigorously controlled the sale? Stop selling to obviously intoxicated people, have a quota for how much beer a particular household could purchase in a month, and so on.
Free Willie
Why are police bothering Willie Nelson, anyway? Don’t they have anything better to do?
The Dude Abides – Reefer Gladness
A Rand Drug Policy Research Center study this summer found that the price for an ounce of pot could drop 90 percent — before a hefty tax — if it’s legalized in California. This is in part because the law would allow people to grow a small plot of their own weed, further cutting into the cartels — legal and illegal.
Green Taxes for Cannabis
On Wednesday, the California secretary of state certified a November vote on a ballot measure that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, a plan that advocates say could raise $1.4 billion and save precious law enforcement and prison resources.
…And I bet a lot of people have a similar response to this one, by Shelley Kutilek: Still, the idea of legal marijuana does not seem too far-fetched to people like Shelley Kutilek, a San Francisco resident, loyal church employee and registered California voter, who said she would vote “yes” in November.