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Featured image: Green Beer By: Kara 78 SOURCE: Clker.com (Public Domain). Pot Leaf added by THEI. SOURCE: umsl.edu. (Public Domain)
From youtube uploaded by IAMHEMP420 on Jul 24, 2013
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From Hemp News
Texas: Activists Say Lone Star State Moving Towards Marijuana Legalization
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
Optimism is a good thing, don’t you think? Some activists say FBI crime statistics will help move Texas closer to legalizing marijuana.
Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) points to new crime stats showing African Americans, while only making up about 12 percent of Texas’ population, are arrested far more often than whites for marijuana possession, reports CBS DFW.
“There is no logical reason why law enforcement officials should be spending their time arresting and prosecuting adults simply for possessing a product that is objectively less harmful than alcohol,” Tvert said. . . . Read Complete report
From Houston Press By Casey Michel Wed., Jul. 3 2013 at 7:00 AM
Marijuana Legalization Could Come to Texas, and Law Students are Helping Figure How
Rehman Bhalesha was raised around marijuana. That’s not to say that he dealt, or that he pushed, or that he used. He didn’t have to. Weed, growing up, turned up wherever he went.
“Living in South Texas, you really see the substance flood high school and college campuses and neighborhoods, without any regulation, in a completely illicit market,” Bhalesha, set to be a third-year student at the South Texas College of Law, told Hair Balls. “I’ve spent my entire life seeing a strong need [for regulation].” . . . Read Complete Report
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Are All 50 States Headed Towards Legalization Of Marijuana?
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Civil Disobedience: Smoke Down Prohibition IV:20
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) vs the War on Drugs
UN Treaty Supersedes Marijuana Legalization Laws as US In Violation
By Shepard Ambellas
theintelhub.com
March 7, 2013
In a new move and a push from the UN backed International Narcotics Control Board along with a handful of former DEA administrators are now trying to halt the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado. The group plans to coax president Obama to block or reverse the laws in the states that have adopted them.
However, enthusiasts of the laws claim that the states our outside of the treaty and are responsible for their own laws within. . . . Read Complete Report
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The U.N. Deception – Full Documentary
Uploaded on Dec 26, 2010
http://jbs.org | The U.N. Deception (United Nations) Learn how top United Nations proponents exploit small arms, the enviroment, and justice to pressure Capitol Hill into quietly surrendering America’s heritage of freedom. The U.N. Deception reports what the nightly news does not: The UN’s creators intended that their organization would become a world government and that Americans would be subservient to it. Should these UN plans remain unopposed the consequences are ultimately grim.
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Published on Feb 14, 2013
Steve Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project — http://www.mpp.org — discusses the historic bills to regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol at the federal level. He explains how the successful 2012 marijuana legalization initiatives approved by voters in Colorado and Washington have built significant momentum behind efforts to end marijuana prohibition.
From reason.com
Oregon came relatively close to legalizing marijuana in 2012. Measure 80, which would have allowed licensed commercial sales and unlicensed personal cultivation, had very little financial backing and no support from major legalization groups, yet nevertheless garnered 46.5 percent of the vote.
What would happen if Oregon legalization advocates had the financial and policy support that went into Colorado and Washington? According to the Marijuana Policy Project’s Steve Fox, we may find out in 2016: . . . Read Complete Report
From Cannabis News
Author: Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Staff Reporter
EXCERPTS
“A strange gap year in Washington’s grand experiment with marijuana legalization begins Thursday, when personal possession of pot becomes legal, but criminal laws banning marijuana growing and sales remain in effect.” . . .
“Jenny Durkan, the U.S. Attorney for Western Washington, sent out a statement Wednesday” . . ….”The Statement:
“The Department of Justice is reviewing the legalization initiatives recently passed in Colorado and Washington state. The Department’s responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged. Neither States nor the Executive branch can nullify a statute passed by Congress. In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance.
“Regardless of any changes in state law, including the change that will go into effect on December 6th in Washington state, growing, selling or possessing any amount of marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Members of the public are also advised to remember that it remains against federal law to bring any amount of marijuana onto federal property, including all federal buildings, national parks and forests, military installations, and courthouses. . . . Read Complete Report
The States currently considering legalization are: Hawaii, Maine, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont.
Prediction: More to Come in 2013. Let you legislatures know: YOU want YOUR state to be on that list! . . . EDITOR
From NORML
by Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director
January 22, 2013
Representative Joseph Souki, Chair of the Hawaiian House Committee on Transportation and House Speaker Emeritus, hasintroduced legislation that would make Hawaii the third state to legalize and regulate the adult use of marijuana.
House Bill 150 would legalize the possession of up to an ounce or less of marijuana by adults over the age of 21, in addition to allowing for the licensing and regulation of marijuana retail stores, as well as cultivation and manufacturing centers.
Polling conducted this month by the ACLU of Hawaii found that 57% of Hawaiians support taxing and regulating marijuana and only 39% were opposed. . . . Read Complete Report
From Denver Post
Posted: 12/29/2012 12:01:00 AM MST
Updated: 01/04/2013 12:16:15 PM MST
By John Ingold
The Denver Post
Just days after guidinga Colorado marijuana-legalization initiativeto an unprecedented victory, longtime Denver marijuana activist Mason Tvert scored another win: a new job.
Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group that is the parent organization for Tvert’s SAFER Colorado and was the main funder for Colorado’s Amendment 64. . . . Read Complete Report
January 4, 2013, 6:54 p.m.
Mexico, which has fought a long war against drug cartels that supply U.S. users, is rethinking its marijuana policy after Colorado and Washington approved legalization.
MEXICO CITY — Forgive the Mexicans for trying to get this straight:
So now the United States, which has spent decades battling Mexican marijuana, is on a legalization bender?
The same United States that long viewed cannabis as a menace, funding crop-poisoning programs, tearing up auto bodies at the border, and deploying sniffer dogs, fiber-optic scopes and backscatter X-ray machines to detect the lowly weed? . . . Read Complete Report