Recently, the Obama administration continued to focus on criminal justice reform by zeroing in on felony disenfranchisement and calling for the restoration of voting rights to former felons.
Voters in Los Angeles Tuesday approved one of two active initiatives aimed at ensuring that medical marijuana dispensaries will be allowed in California's largest city.
The Sensible BC campaign has been getting some of the amazing media coverage over the past few weeks!
This month alone, Sensible BC has been covered in over 40 newspaper articles, as well as many stories on the radio and TV.
We've even been covered in newspapers in Norwegian and Chinese!
You can see most of our media coverage at http://SensibleBC.ca/news
All of the stories have been supportive and friendly to our campaign. Indeed, we've had several high-profile endorsements!
By now you've heard about the amazing victories in Washington and Colorado, two states which voted to legalize cannabis at the state level on November 6.
In Washington, possession of up to an ounce of cannabis will become legal on December 6 when the law comes into force. Prosecutors have already begun dropping hundreds of possession charges across the state.
Washington state officials now have one year to figure out how to set up a state-run network of cannabis shops that will sell the herb to adults.
Today is Wednesday, October 3rd. In less than five weeks Americans will be voting candidates for President, Senate, the House of Representatives, their local statehouse representatives and senators, state attorney-generals, and their Mayor, City Council, sheriff, county commissioners, and possibly dozens of other elected offices at the state, county and local level.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson touted the government's omnibus crime bill Monday morning, which is scheduled for a final vote in the House of Commons later in the day.