- While delivering his remarks at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, comedian Jimmy Kimmel addressed the issue of marijuana legalization. “What is with the marijuana crackdown? Seriously, what is the concern? We will deplete the nation’s Funyun supply?” Kimmel said. “Pot smokers vote too. Sometimes a week after the election, but they vote.” Kimmel [...]
Posted in News
Richard Lee has been one of the state’s most visible activists for liberalized marijuana laws, having spent $1.5 million of his own money supporting an ill-fated ballot initiative in 2010 to decriminalize recreational use. But Lee is also an entrepreneur in the legally cloudy arena of medical marijuana, and on Monday the Internal Revenue Service [...]
Posted in News
A high-profile group of current and former U.S. law enforcement officials has sent a letter to the Harper government with a surprising message: Take it from us, the war on drugs has been a “costly failure.” The officials are urging the Canadian government to reconsider mandatory minimum sentences for “minor” marijuana offences under its “tough-on-crime [...]
Posted in NewsMedia reports that some pot growers will face harsher mandatory-minimum sentences than child rapists under the Conservative government’s new crime bill were enough to catch the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. A request by The Canadian Press for cabinet records on the controversial omnibus crime legislation turned up a single document – — much [...]
Posted in News
This Week in Weed: November 6th-12th
www.norml.org – This week in weed: NORML attorneys raise lawsuits against the federal government and a new study shows no increase of cannabis use in adolescents in states that liberalize medical marijuana laws.
…
A reform of Indiana’s marijuana laws, considered to be among the toughest in the nation, was supported by a majority of speakers at a hearing at the Statehouse on Thursday. Suggestions included legalizing the medical use of marijuana and reducing…
Posted in News
