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Every new year there is a revival of interest to legislatively legalize some of the most popularly abused substances found in the underground market.  This is especially true of marijuana, which also happens to be addicting. It’s proper name is cannabis sativa.  In previous times, it was simply [...]

This past week or so, a story about Rep.  Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, introducing legislation to legalize marijuana appeared in newspapers.  The movement to legalize marijuana isn’t new, and I can’t say I’m surprised.  But I was surprised to hear our local radio station running a survey on the legislative proposal to legalize marijuana.  [...]

Colorado — Gov. Bill Ritter, in his last State of the State address on Thursday, urged lawmakers to regulate medical marijuana, which is legal in Colorado. This was met with profane resistance from a pro-pot lawyer — saying lawmakers should, in essence, be kissing the pot advocates` cheeks, and not the ones on their faces. [...]

Seattle, WA — Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing all marijuana-possession cases, starting with those that were already under way under the old city attorney. City Attorney Pete Holmes, who beat incumbent Tom Carr in November, said he dismissed two marijuana-related cases in his first day on the job, and several others are about to [...]

Police Pot Raids Generate Complaints From Residents “Ambiguous” wording in Hawaii County’s so-called “Peaceful Sky” law needs rectifying because it’s hampering the Police Commission’s work, says the panel’s chairman. The voter-approved initiative that took effect in November 2008 requires police to give the lowest enforcement priority to people at least 21 years old who grow, [...]

A retired academic who once called for cannabis to be legalised was appointed yesterday as the Government’s new adviser on the harm caused by drugs. Les Iversen, a former pharmacology professor at the University of Oxford, was made interim chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of [...]

Augusta, Maine — A task force charged with implementing changes to Maine’s medical marijuana law fine tuned its recommendations to the governor and Legislature on Friday, reaching consensus on several key issues but leaving a handful unanswered. The task force was formed by Gov. John Baldacci following last November’s vote to expand the state law [...]

Seattle — A push to legalize marijuana on the West Coast is picking up steam as Washington lawmakers and pot proponents in California and Oregon propose separate measures. The Washington state legislature will hold a preliminary vote Wednesday on whether to sell pot in state liquor stores, though even its authors say the bill is [...]

Entrepreneur John Lee thinks the pot business is ready for its own Amazon.com. The numbers back him up. Marijuana is California’s biggest cash crop, generating sales estimated at $14 billion a year. Thanks to the state’s increasingly liberal medical marijuana laws, more of that money than ever before is being spent legally. Which leaves sellers [...]

Most Americans are paying too much for marijuana. I’m not referring to people who smoke it—using the drug generally costs about as much as using alcohol. Marijuana is unaffordable for the rest of America because billions are wasted on misdirected drug education and distracted law enforcement, and we also fail to tax the large underground [...]