Items tagged with cannabis and california
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| A tale of two cannabis legalization experiments [17.10.2023] | It’s been five years since the Canadian government legalized and regulated non-medical cannabis cultivation, commerce, and consumption. California is ... |
| A beachside city became California’s legal cannabis capital. Not everyone is stoked [03.08.2023] | Thanks to the most lenient policies in California for recreational marijuana, Santa Barbara county is now the state’s undisputed capital of legal can ... |
| Environmental justice, up in smoke [06.04.2023] | There is ample evidence that irresponsible outdoor cultivation can also be environmentally destructive, leading some to argue that indoor cultivation ... |
| Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022 [24.12.2022] | Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdit ... |
| California’s illicit marijuana market thrives as much of the state continues to restrict sales [04.10.2022] | In 2016, Californians voted to legalize recreational adult-use marijuana. Proponents of Proposition 64, including then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, argued ... |
| The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths [08.09.2022] | Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| Legalized pot was supposed to help build black wealth in Los Angeles. It failed [04.04.2022] | Back in 2017, Los Angeles was among the first places in the United States to legalize weed with social equity in mind. Today, social equity dominates ... |
| Up in Smoke: Is the legal-cannabis industry on the verge of collapsing? [15.12.2021] | When legalization proponents sold voters on Prop. 64 in 2016, one of their chief arguments in favor of the measure was that legal weed would yield a ... |
| California legalized weed five years ago. Why is the illicit market still thriving? [02.11.2021] | Five years after cannabis legalization, California is awash with signs of an apparently booming industry. Californians can toke on Justin Bieber-bran ... |
| Why New York legalizing recreational cannabis won’t kill the illicit market [19.03.2021] | As New York prepares to legalize adult-use cannabis, whether the illicit market will thrive or die seems like an important question. The best place t ... |
| Where recreational marijuana is legal, data show minimal impacts on teen use and traffic deaths [22.10.2020] | Since 2012, 11 states have legalized marijuana use for adults — which voters nationwide are considering on their ballots this year. Researchers are j ... |
| California outdoor marijuana cultivators to designate products by growing region [15.10.2020] | California’s marijuana market is borrowing a page from the state’s world-famous wine industry thanks to a new law intended to help outdoor cannabis g ... |
| California cannabis industry strives for geographic branding, just like wine [11.07.2020] | California’s legal cannabis industry, not yet 4 years old, yearns for the same system of tying plants to the soil perfected by the French over centur ... |
| Years after legalizing marijuana, voters see it as a huge success [20.05.2020] | Residents in nine of the 11 states that have legalized the adult use of cannabis have no regrets about ending prohibition. In fact, according to a ne ... |
| Los Angeles to dismiss 66,000 marijuana convictions [14.02.2020] | Los Angeles moved this week to dismiss nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions, years after the state voted to legalize the drug. The county is working w ... |
| 'This was supposed to be reparations': Why is LA's cannabis industry devastating black entrepreneurs? [03.02.2020] | A Los Angeles government program set up to provide cannabis licenses to people harmed by the war on drugs has been plagued by delays, scandal and bur ... |
| Another cannabis company teeters on the edge [29.01.2020] | Last week was a wild one for MedMen, the multistate cannabis retailer based in Culver City, California. As CEO Adam Bierman was getting ready to do a ... |
| The Great Cannabis Crash of 2019 [14.01.2020] | Bad news about the so-called "Green Rush" rolled in slowly at first, picking up steam around the end of last summer. Stocks started to dive. Layoffs ... |
| What will 2020 mean for cannabis? [01.01.2020] | As 2019 slouched toward its end, many predictions of what might happen with cannabis in 2020 had been tinged with optimism. Chronic Town was no diffe ... |
| America’s marijuana growers are the best in the world, but federal laws are keeping them out of global markets [27.12.2019] | After 20 years of experience, legal marijuana growers in the U.S. have a reputation for creating the best product in the world, scientifically grown ... |
| Reasons marijuana legalization seems to be failing [05.11.2019] | When it was first proposed, the concept of marijuana legalization seemed solid enough. Take the world’s most popular illicit substance, establish a t ... |
| The world’s largest pot farms, and how Santa Barbara opened the door [15.06.2019] | In a sandy draw of the Santa Rita Hills, a cannabis company is planning to erect hoop greenhouses over 147 acres — the size of 130 football fields — ... |
| Cannabis co-operatives: Can working together preserve small players? [01.05.2019] | Hezekiah Allen believes in small family farms, though he’s biased — he grew up on one. Born in an off-the-grid community of rural Humboldt County, Al ... |
| 4/21 organizers want to reclaim cannabis from corporations [18.04.2019] | On 4/20, cannabis consumers across the United States will light one up in celebration of cannabis culture. In 10 states and counting, that celebratio ... |
| Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs [01.03.2019] | If New Zealand votes to legalise cannabis in 2020’s binding referendum, we will have a unique opportunity on our hands. Creating a licit market from ... |
| San Francisco to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions [26.02.2019] | San Francisco officials plan to expunge more than 9,000 marijuana convictions dating back to 1975, the city's highest law enforcement official said. ... |
| A California conundrum: How to crack down on illicit sales without echoing the war on drugs? [04.02.2019] | In October 2018, the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ newly-established Cannabis Enforcement Unit teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Dep ... |
| Now for the hard part: Getting Californians to buy legal weed [02.01.2019] | A billion dollars of tax revenue, the taming of the black market, the convenience of retail cannabis stores throughout the state — these were some of ... |
| Why L.A.'s recreational weed industry can't go straight [30.10.2018] | Given Los Angeles’ status as one of the largest cannabis markets in the world (and California’s status as a trailblazer for medical cannabis), it sho ... |
| Cannabis price collapse putting billions in consumers’ pockets [18.10.2018] | Wholesale cannabis prices could hit as low as $30 an ounce in some parts of the U.S. as another record crop of outdoor cannabis floods markets and si ... |
| Landmark California marijuana legislation gives residents chance to 'reclaim their lives' [01.10.2018] | Hailed by advocates as a chance for people to “reclaim their lives,” a new California law will soon make it easier for people with past marijuana con ... |
| U.S. cannabis producers fear Canada will 'dominate the industry' [29.09.2018] | The CEO of California-based marijuana producer and seller Terra Tech is watching the cannabis industry boom north of the border with more than a litt ... |
| The plan to save California's legendary weed from 'Big Cannabis' [17.04.2018] | The cannabis industry in California historically has been anything but centralized. That has made the cannabis in the Emerald Triangle legendary. Tho ... |
| Mexicans are buying legal weed in California, reversing a century-long trend of drug smuggling [18.03.2018] | During the past century of cannabis prohibition, a steady flow of illegal marijuana has been smuggled across the border from Mexican farms to America ... |
| Outlaw weed comes into the light [16.03.2018] | Humboldt County, traditionally shorthand for outlaw culture and the great dope it produces, is facing a harsh reckoning. Every trait that made this s ... |
| Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own [26.02.2018] | American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California's legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by e ... |
| Report: 99% of California cannabis growers are still unlicensed [19.02.2018] | The backers of Prop. 64, the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act, sold California voters on the promise that small and medium businesses would be the eng ... |
| Big Sur’s legendary weed growers being left behind in legal era [05.02.2018] | For decades, hidden in creases of the wild and rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, farmers have eked out a living growing some of the nation’s most esteeme ... |
| How legalization is already hurting California's small pot farmers [08.01.2018] | Legality is more nuanced than it may seem in a state that legalized weed. And California's mom-and-pop growers are up against a confluence of factors ... |
| California’s cannabis crowd isn’t afraid of the Big Bad Attorney General [06.01.2018] | Lots of people, obviously, are unhappy with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ reversal of Obama-era guidelines de-prioritizing federal enforcement of m ... |
| California defiant in face of federal move to get tough on marijuana [04.01.2018] | The sale of recreational cannabis became legal in California on New Year’s Day. Just four days later, the Trump administration acted in effect to und ... |
| Sessions to rescind Cole Memo that kept feds out of legal marijuana states [04.01.2018] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country ... |
| California's marijuana legalization aims to repair damage from the war on drugs [02.01.2018] | California is now the largest state in the nation to have legal and regulated recreational marijuana. And while that alone is a blow to the prohibiti ... |
| California rings in new year with broad legalization of marijuana [01.01.2018] | The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the ... |
| Steve DeAngelo digs in [01.01.2018] | "We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entre ... |
| Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis [30.12.2017] | On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow i ... |
| I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization [29.12.2017] | As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times whe ... |
| Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition [27.12.2017] | California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, ... |
| California's top marijuana regulator talks about what to expect Jan. 1, when legal pot market opens [25.12.2017] | California's legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1. The day will be a milestone, but what exactly will happen then and, especially, in the we ... |
| Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms [18.12.2017] | California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be pro ... |
| California’s limit on big growers just vanished. Here’s why [06.12.2017] | In an unexpected move that has small cannabis farmers and some state lawmakers up in arms, California regulators have created a licensing loophole th ... |
| Here are the new rules for legal marijuana in California, effective Jan. 1 [17.11.2017] | Cannabis businesses in California can’t be within 600 feet of schools. Shops have to close by 10 p.m., and they need 24-hour video surveillance. Thos ... |
| California proposes armored cars to transport pot tax money [07.11.2017] | California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal mariju ... |
| High taxes on legal pot in California could mean black market will thrive [30.10.2017] | State and local taxes on marijuana could surpass 45% in some parts of California, jeopardizing efforts to bring all growers and sellers into a state- ... |
| Legal marijuana is almost here. If only pot farmers were on board [09.09.2017] | More than nine months after California voted to legalize recreational marijuana, only a small share of the tens of thousands of cannabis farmers in N ... |
| Marijuana dispensaries decrease crime, not increase it, study finds [18.07.2017] | Conventional wisdom says marijuana dispensaries make neighborhoods less safe, but a new study from UC Irvine suggests the conventional wisdom is wron ... |
| California considering creating a state-run bank for cannabis businesses [16.07.2017] | California government, financial and marijuana business leaders met last week in a far-from-resolved debate over whether a state-run bank could be th ... |
| Cannabis cash conundrum: Some businesses bury money, others truck it to a federal vault [12.07.2017] | With recreational use set to become legal next year under Proposition 64, cannabis sales in the state are expected to top $7.5 billion in 2020, up fr ... |
| California takes right steps in crafting state’s marijuana regulations [17.05.2017] | When Proposition 64 passed last November by the largest margin of any marijuana legalization ballot measure in history, it represented a resounding m ... |
| Marijuana goes industrial in California [15.04.2017] | The vast and fertile Salinas valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor. Now Cal ... |
| ‘Building the airplane while it’s being flown’ [30.01.2017] | In the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern Cali ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| California marijuana legalisation faces unlikely foe: growers [03.10.2016] | The executive director of the California Growers Association trade group, Hezekiah Allen has long sought an end to what he calls "prohibition". But h ... |
| 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 ... |
| An unprecedented number of states will vote on marijuana this fall [01.09.2016] | More states than ever will consider easing restrictions on marijuana use this November: Voters in five states will decide whether to fully legalize r ... |
| California voters will most likely legalize recreational marijuana this November [18.08.2016] | California's Proposition 64 would legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. No disrespect to Colorado or Washington or Alaska, but California’s ... |
| These are the States that might legalize pot next [17.08.2016] | This November, voters in five states will decide whether to authorize recreational use: Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Anothe ... |
| Marijuana legalization in California [10.08.2016] | This November, a marijuana legalization measure will be put to voters in the most populous and influential US state. If Californians vote “yes” on Pr ... |
| The pot law that could be 'deal-breaker for the drug war' [04.07.2016] | California's pot legalization initiative, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), qualified for the ballot in November, setting the stage for a vote t ... |
| Initiative to legalize recreational use of pot in California qualifies for November ballot [27.06.2016] | An initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in California officially took its place on the Nov. 8 ballot as its campaign took ... |
| California’s largest political party just endorsed legalizing marijuana [19.06.2016] | Six years ago, the California Democratic Party joined most of its elected leaders in declining to endorse the marijuana legalization initiative on th ... |
| The activists helping illegal pot dealers turn into legit marijuana businessmen [08.06.2016] | In California, where voters are expected to legalize recreational marijuana in November, there’s a small, but growing movement to eliminate barriers ... |
| Weed shall overcome: Can California help wind down the War on Drugs? [09.05.2016] | By the end of this year, California could be the world’s biggest legal marijuana market. Backers of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), which woul ... |
| California’s big chance to set the gold standard for marijuana policy [19.04.2016] | Californians will have the opportunity to support the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), based on key lessons and guidance from Colorado, Washington, ... |
| Drug expert says Australia's presence at UN summit a waste of money [07.04.2016] | The president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Dr Alex Wodak, has questioned Australia’s attendance at the special session of the United ... |
| Marijuana plan backed by billionaire Sean Parker on path to California ballot [06.01.2016] | A plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Sean Parker to legalize recreational use of marijuana in California is on the path to the November ballot ... |
| California’s leading legalization initiative gathers momentum [07.12.2015] | California’s leading legalization initiative is gathering momentum, and has announced amendments that add input from hundreds of stakeholders. Propon ... |
| After Ohio’s vote, these states will determine the future of legal marijuana [02.11.2015] | Drug law reformers in at least 16 states have already got ballot measures in the works for next year, according to vote-tracking site Ballotpedia. Tw ... |
| Oregon legalizes pot, and nobody cares [12.10.2015] | Oregon is the third American state to legalize recreational marijuana sales, following neighboring Washington, where legal pot debuted in the summer ... |
| Ohio prepares to vote on marijuana legalization: which states will be next? [16.08.2015] | Thus far, Ohio is the only state where voters will consider pot legalization in the 2015 election. But that’s not because many states aren’t already ... |
| Legislature considering plans to regulate medicinal pot shops, growers [02.05.2015] | California lawmakers are wading into the politically sticky issue of regulating medical marijuana, laying groundwork for state control of the sale an ... |
| Marijuana cultivation in California is sucking streams dry, says new report [27.03.2015] | With its dense forests, foggy climate and rugged coastline, California’s Humboldt County has long been synonymous with its biggest cash crop: marijua ... |
| The war on drugs is burning out [07.01.2015] | The conservative wave of 2014 featured an unlikely, progressive undercurrent: In two states, plus the nation's capital, Americans voted convincingly ... |
| The year in drug policy: Movement at a crossroads [26.12.2014] | The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in sev ... |
| California’s Attorney General thinks legal weed is inevitable [17.11.2014] | California was one of the first to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, but so far hasn’t legalized it for recreational use, like Colorado, Washington ... |
| California next for pot proponents emboldened by election victories [05.11.2014] | Marijuana advocates, fresh off victories for legal recreational pot in Oregon, Alaska and the nation’s capital, are already preparing for their next ... |
| Grow your own marijuana law [25.10.2014] | Retail marijuana sales for adults are now legal (at least at the state level) in Colorado and Washington. Next month, voters in Alaska and Oregon may ... |
| Yes to marijuana ballot measures [05.10.2014] | The decision by California voters in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana produced a wave of similar initiatives around the country. Less than two deca ... |
| Major pot legalization group turns sights on California for 2016 [23.09.2014] | Marijuana legalization proponents are turning their attention to California and gearing up for a legalization campaign in 2016. The Marijuana Policy ... |
| High times: The next five states to tackle pot laws [02.06.2014] | Weed is legal in at least some form in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Most allow it for medical use only. Colorado and Washington this year ... |
| California ballot measure on pot legalization delayed until 2016 [17.02.2014] | A coalition of investors and strategists, which played a key role in passing most of the legislation to reform drug laws nationwide since 1996, has d ... |
| Marijuana legalization would bring fresh cash to California [26.12.2013] | At least two of three marijuana legalization measures vying for the November, 2014 ballot would be good for California, according to the state Attorn ... |
| Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture? [29.10.2013] | The growing societal acceptance of cannabis in the U.S. has sparked what some call a "green rush" of people trying to cash in on what is already a mu ... |
| Few problems with cannabis for California [25.10.2013] | At a time when polls show widening public support for legalization California’s 17-year experience as the first state to legalize medical marijuana o ... |
| New laws chart course for marijuana legalization [19.10.2013] | Nearly a year after Colorado and Washington State voted to become the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the detailed rules governing h ... |
| California is poised to legalize marijuana in 2016 [16.10.2013] | According to a Tulchin Research poll a "solid majority" of nearly two-thirds (65%) in California supports legalizing, regulating and taxing adult rec ... |
| Fate of LA pot shops left to voters [18.05.2013] | Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighb ... |
| Majority of California voters support legalizing pot, poll finds [27.02.2013] | A record but still narrow majority of California voters, or 54 percent, favor legalizing marijuana for personal, recreational use with age limits and ... |
| California high court seems inclined to uphold bans on pot shops [06.02.2013] | The California Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries. Meeting for oral arguments, the state ... |
| Reefer Madness Revisited [20.12.2012] | Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has co-authored most of the medical marijuana laws on the books. ... |
| Marijuana, not yet legal for Californians, might as well be [19.12.2012] | Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. M ... |
| The next seven states to legalize pot [18.12.2012] | By legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As man ... |
| Marijuana decriminalization law brings down juvenile arrests in California [25.11.2012] | Marijuana is one of the primary reasons why California experienced a stunning 20 percent drop in juvenile arrests in just one year, between 2010 and ... |
| Veteran Emerald Triangle pot growers see their way of life ending [29.09.2012] | Battered by competition from indoor cultivators around the state and industrial-size operations that have invaded the North Coast counties, many of t ... |
| 10 Reasons to Revisit Marijuana Policy Now [12.06.2012] | For the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use: 56%, according to the most recent Rasmusse ... |
| Rally protests federal raid on Oakland pot trade school [04.04.2012] | Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at City Hall to demand federal respect for state and local marijuana laws, a day after federal agents raided the s ... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement [02.04.2012] | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dispensary, ... |
| Effort to put marijuana legalization measure on ballot is in disarray [09.03.2012] | After Proposition 19 received 46% of the vote in 2010, proponents took heart. They vowed to put a measure to fully legalize marijuana on the 2012 bal ... |
| California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It? [19.10.2011] | Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that ... |
| California Medical Assn. calls for legalization of marijuana [15.10.2011] | The California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians statewide, questions the medical value of pot and acknowledges some heal ... |
| The Pot Republic [26.07.2011] | The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it i ... |
| New California marijuana ballot measure starts circulating [25.07.2011] | A new marijuana legalization ballot measure was cleared Monday to start seeking petition signatures. But its proponents aren't affiliated with the Oa ... |
| California medical marijuana growers face pressure [02.07.2011] | A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if ... |
| Raft of marijuana legislation highlights a murky regulatory climate [17.06.2011] | California lawmakers are looking at a range of bills to expand, contract or change state marijuana laws. Legalization proponents say it reflects a po ... |
| Pot Penalties May Be Modernized [18.05.2011] | Sponsored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, AB 1017 aims to give prosecutors more discretion in how they charge weed growers and processors, ... |
| The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [09.02.2011] | The West Coast is a different world when it comes to progress on drug policy reform. Three of the four states most likely to see strong pushes for ma ... |
| One toke over the line [16.12.2010] | After an annual survey of teen drug use nationwide found that marijuana smoking is on the rise among eighth- through 12th-graders, Kerlikowske attrib ... |
| Calif. Pot Proponents Gird for 2012 [28.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls this month, marijuana-legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for ... |
| Legal marijuana: Not if, but when [16.11.2010] | One might have expected the principals of the Proposition 19 campaign to partially decriminalize marijuana possession and use to be a little chagrine ... |
| Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate [16.11.2010] | Drug use and abuse are social and pubic health issues. But these drug laws started as purity laws in a progressive effort to stop pharmaceutical comp ... |
| Prop 19 was only the beginning… [15.11.2010] | An interesting blog on Calitics, a leading progressive community blog for California politics: California voters came out in droves to support Propos ... |
| Backers of Legal Marijuana Find Silver Lining in Defeat of California Measure [13.11.2010] | Proposition 19, which would have legalized in California, received more votes than the Republican nominee for governor. It also received untold news ... |
| Pot legalization advocates are undeterred by the defeat of Prop. 19 [07.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls last week, marijuana legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for 2 ... |
| Prop. 19 backers plan new marijuana legalization effort [04.11.2010] | Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California spent the day after the election laying the groundwork to rebound from their 54%-to-46% defeat and r ... |
| Despite rejecting Prop. 19, Californians lean toward legalizing marijuana, poll finds [04.11.2010] | California voters rejected Prop. 19, but a post-election poll found that they still lean toward legalizing marijuana for recreational use and, if you ... |
| California's Proposition 19 Falls Short, but Moves the Marijuana Policy Debate Forward [03.11.2010] | The California ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana under state law was defeated at the polls Tuesday, garnering about 46 percent of ... |
| Measure to legalize pot is defeated in Calif after feds issue warnings, young voters stay home [03.11.2010] | California voters weren't high on a ballot measure aimed at legalizing marijuana and appeared to heed warnings of legal chaos and a federal showdown ... |
| Prop. 19 supporters say win or lose they've sparked a debate [02.11.2010] | The campaign's message was, win or lose, the initiative has stimulated widespread debate and shown that the nation's ban on marijuana is destined to ... |
| Proposition 19 Is a Vote Heard 'Round the World' [01.11.2010] | The world will be watching as Californians go to the polls on Tuesday and vote on Proposition 19, which would legalize and regulate marijuana in that ... |
| How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America [31.10.2010] | What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Sa ... |
| All Eyes on California [29.10.2010] | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in q ... |
| FT Editorial: High time to legalise marijuana [27.10.2010] | Just say no, the slogan says. But on November 2, California has the chance to say yes, at least to marijuana. Proposition 19 would legalise the produ ... |
| Soros: Why I Support Legal Marijuana [26.10.2010] | Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely us ... |
| Latin American leaders question move to legalize marijuana [26.10.2010] | The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legaliz ... |
| Just say yes to common sense on pot policy [26.10.2010] | With all the hand-wringing over a Democratic "enthusiasm gap," one effort to turn out young people at the polls this November is showing real energy ... |
| The case for California's Prop 19 [26.10.2010] | Over a dozen US states have already decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, and Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California are already h ... |
| Marijuana law would propel California into unknown territory [25.10.2010] | Vote yes on Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, and the unofficial state weed and largest cash crop will be controlled like alcohol, p ... |
| What the Feds Can Do About Prop 19 [25.10.2010] | Assume for a moment that California voters approve Proposition 19 on Nov. 2. The state will have just enacted a process for legalizing, regulating, a ... |
| 19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal [24.10.2010] | Prop 19, the CA initiative legalizing marijuana, benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the n ... |
| Marijuana and Democracy – All Eyes on California [22.10.2010] | “Democracy is the worst form of government,” as Churchill once put it, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Whatever else it should i ... |
| A federal-state showdown over pot [21.10.2010] | Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge ... |
| Holder promises to enforce U.S. drug laws if Prop. 19 passes [16.10.2010] | Stepping up the Obama administration's opposition to Proposition 19, the nation's top law enforcement official promised to "vigorously enforce" feder ... |
| The promise of legalization [16.10.2010] | People on both sides of the marijuana legalization debate have strong feelings about Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that promises t ... |
| Mexican waves, Californian cool [14.10.2010] | If California votes in favour of legalisation, Mexico would be wise to follow suit (the bottom would anyway fall out of its marijuana business). The ... |
| An altered state [14.10.2010] | Proposition 19 has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed. Back in 1972 a proposition to legalise the ... |
| Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico [13.10.2010] | The United States’ demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. So ... |
| Legalizing pot in California would hardly dent cartels' revenue, report says [13.10.2010] | Proposition 19, which would partially legalize marijuana in California, would do little to curtail the violent Mexican organizations that smuggle it ... |
| Legalizing Marijuana in California Will Not Dramatically Reduce Mexican Drug Trafficking Revenues [12.10.2010] | Legalizing marijuana in California will not dramatically reduce the drug revenues collected by Mexican drug trafficking organizations from sales to t ... |
| The high and the mighty [07.10.2010] | We investigate how the legalisation of cannabis in California could impact the economy and the criminal justice system.Cannabis is California's numbe ... |
| US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabi ... |
| Pot possession in Calif now like speeding ticket [01.10.2010] | A new law makes possessing up to an ounce of marijuana in California no more serious than getting a speeding ticket - a development both sides battli ... |
| Schwarzenegger signs bill reducing offense for marijuana possession [01.10.2010] | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but he offered a consolation Thursday by s ... |
| Marijuana legalization measure gets big lift [26.09.2010] | In a dramatic shift of sentiment, nearly half of California's likely voters now want to legalize marijuana use in the state, according to a new Field ... |
| California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war [05.09.2010] | On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiativ ... |
| The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy [01.05.2004] | Decriminalizing cannabis doesn't lead to more widespread use, according to a study comparing cannabis users in two similar cities with opposing canna ... |
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