Colorado decides pot tourism is OK
Ladies and gentlemen you will soon be able to have a high old time in Colorado. Voters in that state, like Washington, legalized marijuana in November. A task force that is proposing regulations for...
View ArticleMedical marijuana bill introduced in Congress
A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. House members on Monday introduced the States’ Medical Marijuana Patients Protection Act, allowing medical marijuana patients and businesses to access and distribute...
View ArticleLegalize marijuana: California poll
California is ready to follow in Washington’s footsteps, and vote to legalize marijuana and regulate its sale like that of alcohol, according to the Golden State’s authoritative Field Poll. “Support...
View ArticlePelosi to DOJ: Don’t mess with Washington, Colorado pot laws
The federal government should stop enforcing the Controlled Substances Act, with its draconian definition of marijuana, in Washington and Colorado, which voted last November to legalize and tax the...
View ArticleThe political losers of 2013 — tales of excess and aloofness
The biggest political losers of 2013 were those, here and across America, guilty of overconfidence, overreaching or failing to reach out enough. It was a year of upsets and upset people, of reversals...
View ArticleJerry Brown doesn’t want nation of stoners
Jerry Brown was nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam” years ago for his New Age views, but an older California governor is now raising doubts about the drive to legalize marijuana. As supporters prepare for a...
View ArticleAlaska: Minimum-wage and marijuana votes in 2014?
Alaska voters are likely to vote on a minimum-wage hike as well as marijuana legalization when the 49th state holds its primary election in August. Alaskans for a Fair Minimum Wage on Friday presented...
View ArticleSen. Rand Paul wins C-PAC Republican poll
Libertarian-minded Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the decisive victor in a straw poll for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, conducted at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference just...
View ArticleMaryland makes possessing marijuana equivalent to traffic ticket
The Maryland Legislature voted on Monday to remove criminal penalties for adults who possess small amounts of marijuana, transforming a criminal offense into the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Gov....
View ArticleBill O’Reilly rails against marijuana, reveals ‘Marlboro Man’ offer
Bill O’Reilly, mighty mouth of Fox News, has found a way to both blow his own horn and sound the trumpet in the nation’s “culture wars.” BillO revealed on Wednesday that he was recruited in the 1970′s...
View ArticleChristie rips Colorado ‘head shops,’ vows to defend New Jersey ‘quality of life’
Gov. Chris Christie is not turned on by the growing movement to legalize and decriminalize marijuana, and vows that New Jersey will not tune in. The scandal-plagued governor, still a prospective 2016...
View ArticleAbout drugs, Pope Francis says no, but Nancy Reagan he’s not
If you hear drug legalization advocates react to Pope Francis’ speech in Rome early Friday, you’d think His Holiness was reviving first lady Nancy Reagan’s “Just say No!” campaign of the 1980s or was...
View ArticleCity attorney apologizes for taking pot to City Hall; Holmes will donate $3,000
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, a longtime outspoken advocate of legalized marijuana, has apologized for bringing an unopened marijuana purchase to his office. The mistake could make Holmes’ outlay...
View ArticleDrug reformer Holcomb ‘seriously considering’ challenge to Sawant
The attorney who masterminded Washington’s marijuana legalization campaign is “seriously considering” a 2015 challenge to socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. Alison Holcomb believes...
View ArticleWhite House must take “central role” on marijuana: Murray, Cantwell
No federal agency should go off on its own trip when it comes to regulating marijuana in states where it is now legal, according to U.S. Senators from Washington and Colorado. The White House must...
View ArticleMarijuana legalization: A rockier road in the Beaver State
Supporters of legal marijuana were up, up and away with hope as Washington voted two years ago, with pre-election polls showing pot would pass handily. It did, even piercing the “Cascade Curtain” for...
View ArticleOklahoma and Nebraska: A nuisance lawsuit against Colorado marijuana
Conservative Republican attorneys general in Oklahoma and Nebraska waited until December to claim title to the “Nuisance Lawsuit of 2014.” They are suing neighboring Colorado over its legalization of...
View ArticleEx-Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska to head marijuana products company
Onetime Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel has a new job as CEO of a just-created company called KUSH that distributes marijuana products where medical and/or recreational cannabis is legal. Its first offering...
View ArticleWashington Atty. Gen Ferguson tells high court: Nebraska, Oklahoma shouldn’t...
Attorney General Bob Ferguson has come to the defense of Colorado’s marijuana legalization law, which has been challenged in an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by neighboring states of Nebraska and...
View ArticleVancouver, B.C., wants to regulate pot; feds warn of ‘marijuana use and...
Vancouver, B.C., finds itself going to pot, with 25,000 young people crowding the front of the Vancouver Art Gallery for 4/20 celebrations on Monday, and an increase from 60 to 80 unlicensed marijuana...
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