Tag: legalization

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June 18, 2013
06/18/2013
Marijuana Advocate Rolling His Way to the White House

Marijuana Advocate Rolling His Way to the White House

Curtis Kyle, a Michigan resident with cerebral palsy who has used a wheelchair his whole life, is “rolling to the White House” to talk to politicians about...
June 17, 2013
06/17/2013
Push for Legalization Underway in Alaska

Push for Legalization Underway in Alaska

Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell certified an application for a marijuana legalization initiative on Friday. The initiative would legalize the possession of up to an ounce. Supporters...
June 14, 2013
06/14/2013
Seattle Visitors Bureau: Questions Remain About Pot Tourism

Seattle Visitors Bureau: Questions Remain About Pot Tourism

Visit Seattle knows that tourism (already big business in Seattle) will increase with the implementation of marijuana legalization, but says many questions will need answers before the...
June 14, 2013
06/14/2013
Moving Toward Legal Marijuana Commerce in Washington State

Moving Toward Legal Marijuana Commerce in Washington State

Voters approved the marijuana legalization initiative I-502 in Washington state last November, and it is now legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, but a...
June 13, 2013
06/13/2013
Arizona Legalization Effort Collecting Signatures for 2014

Arizona Legalization Effort Collecting Signatures for 2014

An initiative for marijuana legalization that would amend Arizona’s constitution, much like Colorado’s Amendment 64, was filed yesterday. In order to make it to the 2014 ballot,...
June 11, 2013
06/11/2013
Top Ten Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now

Top Ten Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now

Despite 40 years and $1 trillion-plus of taxpayer money spent trying to stop – not robbery, not rape, not murder, not even shoplifting – but mostly trying...
June 11, 2013
06/11/2013
States That Legalize Health Benefits of Medical Marijuana: Brief History of Medical Marijuana

States That Legalize Health Benefits of Medical Marijuana: Brief History of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana is one of the first plants cultivated by man. Shrouded in controversy, the intriguing history of cannabis as a medication dates back thousands of years before...
June 11, 2013
06/11/2013
Pro-Marijuana Group Sensible BC Unveils New Billboard in Push to Legalize Marijuana

Pro-Marijuana Group Sensible BC Unveils New Billboard in Push to Legalize Marijuana

Sensible BC has already auto-dialed nearly 1.4-million households in the province trying to drum up support and is now set to unveil a new billboard in West Vancouver...
June 11, 2013
06/11/2013
Legalization Short by 4 Votes in ME House; Senate to Vote

Legalization Short by 4 Votes in ME House; Senate to Vote

On Friday, marijuana reformers recorded the closest vote for a legalization measure on the floor of a state legislature in recent history. Rep. Diane Russell’s LD 1229,...
June 10, 2013
06/10/2013
Marijuana Is the Gateway Drug

Marijuana Is the Gateway Drug

Marijuana is the gateway drug … the gateway to health. Despite all the reefer madness propaganda of the 80’s and 90’s, marijuana is not public enemy #1. It...
June 10, 2013
06/10/2013
Washington Post – Doug Fine: Five Myths About Legalizing Marijuana

Washington Post – Doug Fine: Five Myths About Legalizing Marijuana

Doug Fine, author of “Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution,” debunks five popular cannabis legalization myths: If pot is legal, more people...
June 6, 2013
06/06/2013
Activists: Texas Getting Closer to Legalizing Marijuana

Activists: Texas Getting Closer to Legalizing Marijuana

Thanks to new FBI crime statistics showing incredible waste and racial inequality, activists in Texas are beefing up their attempts to gain support for legalizing marijuana. According...
June 5, 2013
06/05/2013
NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation Fund Raiser

NORML Women’s Alliance Foundation Fund Raiser

Sunday, June 23, 2013 marks the first Pacific Northwest kick off event for the newly formed National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Women’s Alliance...
By: Anna Diaz
June 5, 2013
06/05/2013
Maine to Vote on Marijuana Legalization

Maine to Vote on Marijuana Legalization

Last week, advocates turned in double the amount of signatures required to place a marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot in Portland, Maine this year, making certification seem very...
June 3, 2013
06/03/2013
What It’s Like To Be High While Carl Sagan

What It’s Like To Be High While Carl Sagan

In this age of increasing marijuana acceptance, Huffington Post has revived the message of Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan was an avid marijuana advocate and, in my personal...
June 3, 2013
06/03/2013
Starbucks of Weed, Brought to You by Ex-Microsoft Executive

Starbucks of Weed, Brought to You by Ex-Microsoft Executive

Someday, weed will be a major American industry. We’ve known that for a while. Now, one company hopes to be that industry’s first serious player. Dubbed Diego Pellicer, the...
By: Andy Cush
June 3, 2013
06/03/2013
Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, Pushing for Marijuana Legalization

Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, Pushing for Marijuana Legalization

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox who once led a military crackdown on drug cartels now has a new pitch: creating a legal system to produce, distribute and...
June 3, 2013
06/03/2013
Colorado Legislature Must Have Been Smoking Something

Colorado Legislature Must Have Been Smoking Something

Colorado voters have legalized recreational pot smoking, but this week the governor signed an unconstitutional bill that prohibits marijuana-centric magazines from being sold except from under the...
May 31, 2013
05/31/2013
NORML’s Keith Stroup, Erik Altieri on The Bob Edwards Show

NORML’s Keith Stroup, Erik Altieri on The Bob Edwards Show

Last week, NORML Founder/Legal Counsel Keith Stroup and NORML Communications Director Erik Altieri, sat down with Bob Edwards (former host of NPR’s Morning Edition) on his SiriusXM talk...
May 31, 2013
05/31/2013
Seattle Marijuana Grow Zoning Rules Up for Council Vote

Seattle Marijuana Grow Zoning Rules Up for Council Vote

Next week, Seattle’s city council will vote on rules to allow commercial marijuana grows in certain industrial zones of the city. The proposed marijuana grow zoning rules would...