Pot Is Safer Than Booze: So Why Is Celebrating 4/20 a Crime, While It’s OK to Get Wasted on St. Paddy’s Day?
I spent last St. Patrick’s Day at the marijuana policy reform group NORML’s conference in Philadelphia.
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Pot Tourism In Colorado OK’d By Marijuana Task Force
Marijuana tourism is on the way to Colorado, under a recommendation made Tuesday by a state task force to regulate the drug made legal by voters last year.
Three Ballot Measures Would OK Pot Beyond Medicine
Marijuana legalization is back on the ballot this year. California voters defeated a legalization proposal in 2010, but now similar measures have cropped up in three more Western states.
States Consider Moving Beyond Medical Marijuana
Now that medical marijuana is permitted in about one-third of the nation, advocates hope to move beyond therapeutic uses with ballot questions in three states that could legalize pot for recreational use.
The Great Debate That No One’s Talking About
About 7 million Australians take recreational drugs but no one will talk about it openly.
Decriminalization of Drug Use in Greece
The Greek government made the first big step regarding decriminalization of drug use. Justice Minister Miltiadis Papaioannou presented to the Greek Parliament the basic ideas of a new law concerning drugs.
UK Liberal Democrats Move to Decriminalise All Personal Drug Use and to Allow Controlled Use of Cannabis
Liberal Democrats will vote to legalise cannabis and decriminalise all other personal drug use under plans put forward for approval at their party conference.
Western Australia Bans New Synthetic Cannabis
The Western Australian Government announced on Friday that 14 new substances linked to the manufacture of the synthetic drug Kronic would be banned from Friday midnight.
New Zealand Minister Peter Dunne Admits He Smoked Pot
The minister responsible for pushing a ban on synthetic cannabis through parliament has admitted to smoking the real thing in a live chat with nzherald.co.nz readers.
Missouri Marijuana Legalization Initiatives Filed
Twin initiatives that would regulate marijuana sales and production and legalize the possession of pot by adults were filed with the state Secretary of State's office Wednesday.
