CANNABIS CULTURE - A new campaign called Sensible BC aims to decriminalize cannabis possession in BC and create a provincial commission to study full regulation and taxation of cannabis.
Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today he is opposing Amendment 64, Colorado's marijuana legalization measure which seeks to regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol and will be on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Every former head of the DEA since it was created by Richard Nixon in 1973 has signed onto a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to speak out against the marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot in three Western states. The former top narcs warned that silence would be seen as acquiescence.
Two months out from election day, positions appear to be hardening in the battle over legalizing marijuana in Colorado. A new Public Policy Polling survey shows Amendment 64, which would legalize and regulate marijuana like alcohol, maintaining the same nine-point lead it held last month.
Four years ago, the election of Barack Obama, now battling hard for his second term as U.S. president, gave the drug-legalization movement in B.C. and else-where great hope for enlightened change in U.S. and Canadian government policy on illegal drug use.
Massachusetts voters are firmly in support of a November ballot initiative that would legalize the medical use of marijuana, according to recent poll results.
Another Presidential race and another disappointment in ending the war on drugs. The prohibition on cannabis, psychedelics, opiates, or whatever people want to put in their body, has really been a terrible policy for all Americans.