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Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28-02-13] What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished i...
Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable [28-02-13] US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision "soon" on how he'll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colo...
Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28-02-13] The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are share...
Majority of California voters support legalizing pot, poll finds [27-02-13] A record but still narrow majority of California voters, or 54 percent, favor legalizing marijuana for personal, recreational use with age limits and ...
More Danes grow their own cannabis [25-02-13] A large number of Danes are growing their own cannabis plants at home, according to a new investigation by drug researcher Helle Dahl, a researcher at...
Dominique Broc des Cannabis Social Clubs jugé prochainement [25-02-13] L’intense campagne médiatique du porte-parole des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC), dont le point d’orgue a été le dossier de Libération, a fini par faire ...
Pot purchasing limits proposed in CO [25-02-13] Rules for Colorado's recreational-marijuana industry have begun to take shape after a marathon meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Fo...
The great experiment [23-02-13] A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to impleme...
La police cueille la tête des pro-marijuana [23-02-13] La réponse des autorités ne s’est pas fait attendre… Alors que nous annoncions dans Libération que la Fédération des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC) franç...
Maine, Maryland marijuana legalization bills filed [23-02-13] Maine and Maryland became the latest states to see marijuana legalization bills filed this year, with lawmakers in those two states rolling out measu...
Towards a ceasefire [23-02-13] Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leave...
Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets? [23-02-13] The cannabis industry is an easy target for legislatures to saddle with heavy taxes. In Washington State for instance, there is a 25% tax at three dif...
Pot on the patio? [21-02-13] Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is wading through the weeds of marijuana legalization, creating regulations to take pot from th...
Democratic and Republican legislators unite on bill to legalize and tax marijuana [21-02-13] Lawmakers from opposite ends of the political spectrum unveiled a bill Thursday that would give Mainers the chance to legalize marijuana for recreatio...
Maine could become the next state to legalize marijuana for adult use [21-02-13] State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) was joined by Rep. Aaron Libby (R-Waterboro) at a press conference to unveil the details of her new bill that wo...
Pot-related bills advance in Wash. Legislature [21-02-13] Two marijuana-related bills advanced in Olympia, with legislative committees giving their OK to one measure that would block police from arresting med...
Mayor Bloomberg makes a small step toward a rational policy on marijuana [20-02-13] In his final state of the city address as Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced that anyone caught in possession of marijuana would no longe...
Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy [19-02-13] A new poll out today by the campaign group Transform finds a majority now favour permitting cannabis use, while four in 10 Britons favour total decri...
Colorado marijuana task force recommends allowing pot tourism [19-02-13] Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations that would allow for marijuana tourism b...
How does a Cannabis Social Club work? [18-02-13] What was originally a small group of friends, has become a feasible alternative to the cannabis black market in the north of Belgium. Our guest author...
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Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana

A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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