Items tagged with US drug policy
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| As Trump said in the campaign, leave pot to the states [27.02.2017] | In pulling back from Mr. Trump’s assurance during the campaign that states should be left to decide their own marijuana policies, White House spokesm ... |
| White House hints at crackdown on recreational marijuana [23.02.2017] | White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested the Trump administration will step up enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana. “ ... |
| Just how mainstream is marijuana? [17.02.2017] | Time to dispel any doubts you may still have that marijuana reform is truly a mainstream political issue. This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. repre ... |
| Pot social clubs may be next for legal marijuana movement [16.02.2017] | At risk of raising the ire of the White House, Colorado is on the brink of becoming the first state with licensed pot clubs. But the details of how t ... |
| Marijuana legalization must include justice reform [31.01.2017] | Across the US, we routinely take a pledge that ends in “with liberty and justice for all.” Yet that fundamental promise has been broken in six of the ... |
| Boulder DA Stan Garnett named to group that will advise Trump administration on pot [30.01.2017] | The National District Attorney's Association created a policy group featuring 14 district attorneys from across the country who will issue advisement ... |
| Maryland lawmakers to push for recreational marijuana [30.01.2017] | A group of Democratic lawmakers in Maryland want the state to join a growing number of others that have legalized marijuana for recreational use, tax ... |
| Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs [27.01.2017] | Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but n ... |
| Injecting drugs, under a watchful eye [18.01.2017] | It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States. America has another epidemic now: overdose deaths fr ... |
| Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures [13.01.2017] | Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislati ... |
| Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up [29.12.2016] | Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal vio ... |
| Mexican attitudes to marijuana mellow [24.12.2016] | In november 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Liberalisation in the most populous bor ... |
| The growing movement for marijuana amnesty [22.12.2016] | With an estimated $7 billion in sales in 2016 and potentially exponential growth due to recent ballot initiatives on recreational use, the legal mari ... |
| After legalization, teen marijuana use drops sharply in Colorado [21.12.2016] | Teen marijuana use fell sharply in Colorado in the years 2014 and 2015, after the opening of that state's recreational marijuana market, new federal ... |
| Mellow drivers? [20.12.2016] | States with medical-marijuana laws have fewer traffic fatalities than those without, especially among younger drivers, a new study has found. You wou ... |
| Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana [10.12.2016] | Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used the Nobel podium in Norway to reiterate his call to "rethink" the war on drugs. "It makes no sense to imp ... |
| Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from fentanyl abuse? [10.12.2016] | Fentanyl is the latest and most disturbing twist in the epidemic of opioid addiction that has crept across the United States over the past two decade ... |
| New medical marijuana research could greenlight more uses in treatment [09.12.2016] | Despite its continuing hardline stance against marijuana, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has shown some signs of relenting and this summer open ... |
| 7 reasons President Trump is unlikely to fight legal marijuana [07.12.2016] | With Donald Trump nominating Cabinet members who have spoken out against legal marijuana, some are arguing that the war on drugs may make a comeback. ... |
| The California desert town that plans to be 'a Mecca for marijuana' [01.12.2016] | Desert Hot Springs is the first Southern California city to legalise large-scale cannabis cultivation. With the drug becoming legal for recreational ... |
| Donald Trump adds another marijuana opponent to his Cabinet [28.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, a position that could offer ... |
| Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
| Donald Trump’s attorney general pick could destroy the recreational pot industry [21.11.2016] | Attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is a fervent foe of marijuana legalization. But if he were confirmed as President-elect Trump’s ... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co ... |
| Jeff Sessions could reverse years of progress on marijuana policy [17.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump has nominated hardline drug policy reform opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be Attorney General of the United Stat ... |
| Marijuana reform went 8 for 9 on the ballot this week [10.11.2016] | Marijuana reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest signal to date that the public is ready to embrace ... |
| Silver linings [09.11.2016] | One of the most striking juxtapositions of the 2016 U.S. elections is that on the same day that the nation elected to the presidency a candidate who ... |
| California scrambles to implement new recreational pot law [09.11.2016] | Passage of marijuana-legalization initiatives in California and other states this week has given momentum to a national movement to decriminalize pot ... |
| Marijuana legalization won big on Election Day. It will keep winning [09.11.2016] | In California voters approved legalization. The country’s most populous state and biggest economy will allow people to buy marijuana for recreational ... |
| Marijuana wins big on election night [08.11.2016] | California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational marijuana initiatives, and other states passed medical marijuana provisions, in what is tu ... |
| Obama: Federal prohibition not ‘tenable’ after state marijuana votes [04.11.2016] | President Obama says that federal laws banning marijuana will likely have to change if new states vote to legalize the drug on Tuesday. “The good new ... |
| The trend toward legalizing recreational marijuana [04.11.2016] | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she plans to vote in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana in California. "I will vote for it, but ... |
| 'Commercialization won out': will legal marijuana be the next big tobacco? [30.10.2016] | Candi CdeBaca voted to legalize the free sale of marijuana in Colorado four years ago because she thought it would be good for her Denver neighborhoo ... |
| Alaska's first retail marijuana store set to open at 'high noon' two years after vote [28.10.2016] | A store in Alaska is to be the first in the state offering retail marijuana sales, with a grand opening scheduled for what the operators were calling ... |
| Archdiocese gives $850,000 to fight marijuana bid [27.10.2016] | The Boston Archdiocese is pouring $850,000 into a last-minute effort to defeat a state ballot measure to legalize marijuana, calling increased drug u ... |
| Election may be a turning point for legal marijuana [23.10.2016] | To the red-and-blue map of American politics, it may be time to add green. The movement to legalize marijuana, the country’s most popular illicit dru ... |
| Inside big pharma's fight to block recreational marijuana [21.10.2016] | In August, the pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics cited concerns for child safety when, with a $500,000 contribution, it became the largest do ... |
| Why is support for marijuana legalization hitting record heights? [20.10.2016] | A record number of American citizens support marijuana legalization, according to two new national polls, in a continuation of multi-year trend. Sixt ... |
| How our tax dollars are used to fund opposition to marijuana legalization, in a clear violation of ethics [19.10.2016] | This year the pharmaceutical, alcohol and prison food industries have all weighed in to oppose marijuana legalization initiatives across the country. ... |
| What’s next for kratom after the DEA blinks on its emergency ban? [16.10.2016] | Researchers and users of kratom were stunned by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of its stated plan to place the Southeast Asi ... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t ... |
| The DEA is withdrawing a proposal to ban another plant after the Internet got really mad [12.10.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration is reversing a widely criticized decision that would have banned the use of kratom, a plant that researchers say ... |
| Americans’ support for marijuana legalization is now higher than ever [12.10.2016] | Five states will vote on whether to fully legalize marijuana in November. Supporters of those initiatives got some pretty good news: Support for mari ... |
| Pot stock hits record high as more U.S. states press ahead with legalization [11.10.2016] | As polls indicate California, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Arizona are poised to approve referendums dramatically expanding legal U.S. cannabis u ... |
| Marijuana's Moment [10.10.2016] | Measures to legalize and regulate the sale of cannabis are on the ballot in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada, and recent polls s ... |
| Congress calls out DEA for unilateral move to expand the war on drugs [25.09.2016] | A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are asking the Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its decision to place the herbal supplement kratom ... |
| Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 [25.09.2016] | Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday b ... |
| Mexico president following California marijuana vote - state lawmaker [14.09.2016] | Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately asked California lawmakers visiting Mexico abo ... |
| The DEA wants to ban another plant [14.09.2016] | The Drug Enforcement Administration has received a torrent of backlash from patients with chronic pain and former opiate users after announcing plans ... |
| Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs [13.09.2016] | The Senate and House Judiciary Committees met to discuss the status of the fledgling commercial marijuana industry. One of the largest topics of disc ... |
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