“Our results are consistent with theories that predict that marijuana legalization will displace illicit criminal organizations and decrease crime through changes in security behaviors or substitution toward more harmful substances.”
Surgeon General’s Advisory Highlights Need for Further Cannabis Regulation, Not Criminalization
“Our current model of federal prohibition represents the utter lack of control over any aspect of marijuana or the marijuana market. The Surgeon General’s time would be better spent advocating for a legally and tightly regulated cannabis market – one in which we educate Americans about the potential harms and benefits of cannabis through evidence-based public education campaigns – rather than through fear-mongering.”
Standoff in the Bolivian Rainforests
The Reagan administration launched its drug war against Bolivian coca and cocaine production between 1980-2 with attacks meant to terrorize the Quechua-speaking people growing coca in Chapare. Bullets from aircraft penetrated the tin rooftops of Bolivian homes, killing women, children, and men inside. As was his style, Ronald Reagan’s war failed to stop coca production.
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New York: New Law Reducing Marijuana Possession Penalties Takes Effect Today
Legislation reducing marijuana possession penalties and facilitating the expungement of past cannabis convictions took effect today.
Oklahoma: Expanded Protections for Cannabis Patients to Take Effect
Legislation will take effect next week expanding and strengthening protections for state-qualified medical cannabis patients.
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Virginia, Marijuana, and How Medical Legalization May Unfold in the South
NORML’s Jenn Michelle Pedini shares how they got the state’s conservative legislature to craft one of the American South’s most comprehensive medical marijuana bills to date