Legalize marijuana

Port Orchard Police Chief Al Townsend is not particularly fond of a new state legislative effort to legalize marijuana, as written about last week in the Kitsap Sun. That’s putting it mildly. “If the goal of the bill is to legalize marijuana for the purpose of generating tax revenue, that ridiculous,” said Townsend, pictured, in an email [...]  

Supporters say they've got enough signatures to get a pot-legalization measure on next November's ballot, the Los Angeles Times reports. The measure would let cities and counties there pass laws that legalize marijuana production and sales. Polls suggest that a...  

Beginning January 1, ordinary Czechs can grow up to five marijuana plants or have several marijuana cigarettes in their pockets without fear of criminal prosecution.  Previously what constituted a small amount was not specified and the police and courts loosely interpreted the penal code case by case, often resulting in incarceration of home growers, says the Wall Street Journal.The government's approval of a table specifying what amounts of...  

MADISON Advocates for medical marijuana hope a Democratic-controlled Legislature will make Wisconsin the 14th state in the country to legalize using the drug to help ease the pain of cancer treatments and other serious diseases.  

New Jersey is poised to become the next U.S. state to allow residents to use marijuana, when recommended by a doctor, for relief from serious diseases and medical conditions. The state Senate has approved the bill and the state Assembly is expected t...  

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cannabis Science Inc. (NASD OTCBB: CBIS), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, is pleased to announce today that it has launched an Educational Series of Television commercials designed to inform its viewers about the importance of groundbreaking cannabis-based medicines. The Company is producing 10-15 different public service announcements in the series. Each one will cover a different topic...  

Yesterday, I once again made the argument for legalizing marijuana and taxing the hell out of it. Today, Publicola reports that Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson is collecting co-sponsors on a bill that would do exactly that. How’s this for a magical pot of revenue to help fix the state’s $2.6 billion shortfall? Seattle state Rep. Mary [...]  

Medical Marijuana, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MJNA (stock.jsp?Ticker=MJNA)) announces today the purchase of 20 acres of prime mountain valley property in Southern California intended to be used within strict governmental guidelines as a research facility targeting medical Cannabis strains specific to a wide range of medical conditions. Today in California, a physician's medical cannabis recommendation is based on a patient's evaluation. However, the...  

The medicinal marijuana debate continues to rage. This paper argues why the legalization of marijuana should be up for referendum in the 37 states that do not currently recognize the medicinal value of marijuana.Contributor: The Unarmed ProphetPublished: Dec 04, 2009  

| At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.  

Madeline Martinez, right, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, talks with a patron at the Cannabis Cafe Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009, in Portland, Ore. The patrons of the Cannabis Cafe are people with Oregon medical marijuana cards. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)  

It is time that Wisconsin has a serious debate about legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. If the state engages in a serious, factual debate that is not derailed by ideology and political posturing, the State Legislature will have the ...  

Don't expect to pull an all-nighter at Med Grow Cannabis College. A worker at a cannabis dispensary packages medicinal marijuana in this file photo. As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, institutions are looking to educate potential ...  

As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, medical marijuana training institutions such as Med Grow Cannabis College of Southfield, Mich., are sprouting up, educating people about how to enter the cannabis industry the legal way.  

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