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Major Report from U.K. Lawmakers Calls Marijuana Prohibition “Irrational”

By Alex Halperin on September 20, 2016 News

It received the British equivalent of bipartisan support.

Here’s your daily round-up of pot-news, excerpted from the newsletter WeedWeek. Download WeedWeek’s free 2016 election guide here.

In the U.K., a group representing MPs and Peers from concluded that banning MED is “ irrational.” It is being touted as a major step towards legalization.

Cannabis is an issue in Berlin’s upcoming election.

Vermont’s legislature is revisiting REC after failing to pass it last year. Arkansas Gov. and former DEA chief Asa Hutchinson (R) criticized supporters of the state’s upcoming MED votes for misleading the public about the plant’s medical benefits.

“F*ck it, I quit”: Alaska TV Reporter Admits Owning Marijuana Business, Quits on Air

By William Breathes on September 22, 2014 News, Say what?

Charlo Greene.

Charlo Greene, a TV reporter in Anchorage, Alaska, knows how to make an exit. During a report last night on the 10 o’clock news in Anchorage, Greene did a report on the Alaska Cannabis Club – a local group pushing for the legalization of limited amounts of cannabis this fall. When the station panned back to Greene for the live shot, she dropped a bomb on everyone: she’s the owner of the club.
As for her reporter job? Greene puts it bluntly: “Fuck it.”

Taco Bell president dodges pot question in humorous Reddit AMA

By William Breathes on March 28, 2014 Culture, Say what?

Taco Bell may have made a fortune off of the effects of cannabis, but that doesn’t mean they necessarily support the legalization of the plant.
In an Ask Me Anything interview yesterday on Reddit, Taco Bell president Brian Nicco had a tongue-in-cheek diversion to one user’s query as to where the fast food chain stands on pot legalization.

Surprising nobody, head of DEA upset about marijuana acceptance

By Jack Daniel on February 4, 2014 Follow that story, Legalize It, News

Visitors to the DEA Headquarters building, located in Washington D.C., may be surprised to learn that there is an actual museum onsite. Fun for the whole family, hard-earned taxpayer dollars were used to construct not only a fully detailed mock medical marijuana dispensary, but a quaint faux crack house right next door. Because, you know, Schedule I, etc.
DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart passes by the monuments to the War on Drug’s failures each day when she arrives to work, and the constant reminder has her lashing out with blame for everyone but her own department.

Silk Road shutdown puts users in danger, but not necessarily from Feds

By Jack Daniel on October 7, 2013 Global, News, Say what?

Last Wednesday, the FBI announced that they had identified and detained Ross William Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts”, the alleged founder and owner of the not-so-Top-Secret illicit online drug marketplace known as Silk Road.
Until the seizure by the Feds last week, Silk Road, in operation since 2011, served as a sort of Amazon.com for anything from pills to hallucinogens to heroin, and everything in between.

End The Drug War!

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 29, 2012 Legislation

The Utopianist

By Anthony Martinelli

Communications Director

Sensible Washington

In a recent article published on our website, we explain the key reasons for ending our failed prohibition on cannabis. Doing so would bring untold benefits, and deal a huge blow to our failed war on drugs. However, even if cannabis were legalized, our nation would still be waging the widespread and devastating humans rights violation that our drug war has become.

Even if you don’t condone the use of any drugs, it is difficult to argue that throwing someone into prison alongside murderers and other violent criminals — for simple drug possession, spending taxpayer money along the way — is anything other than bad policy.

8th Grader Suspended For Pot Prank With Bag Of Oregano

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 21, 2012 News

FARK.com

An eighth-grade student in North Carolina was suspended from school after pulling a prank on a classmate with a bag of oregano following a lecture on the dangers of marijuana. A civil liberties group has lined up in his corner, but officials at the school aren’t backing down.

The boy was thrown out of school for 55 days for the incident at Cuthbertson Middle School in Waxhaw, N.C., reports My Fox Orlando. Hidebound school officials point at the district’s policy manual, which says students can get a 10-day suspension for “possessing illegal or counterfeit drugs” and “misuse of chemical/material (organic or otherwise) that causes or is purported to cause a hallucinogenic/mind altering effect.”

‘Sweden Legalizes Cannabis’ Story Is Just A Hoax

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 19, 2011 Global, Legislation, News

Zazzle

A story which went viral on the Web today — indicating that Sweden had bravely forged ahead of its Scandinavian neighbors and legalized cannabis — appears to be a hoax.

One story on JustPaste.It, headlined “Sweden legalizes and regulates cannabis,” created a bit of a stir (and a storm of page hits) on social media networks.

However, the story, which linked to no confirming sources and listed as its source “420 Dagbladet, Stockholm, December 19, 2011,” could not be confirmed anywhere else and seems to have no validity.

“420 Dagbladet,” which would mean “420 Daily Newspaper,” doesn’t even appear to exist, either as a website or as a print publication.

‘Marijuana Is Sexy’: Talking Pot with Mendo Sheriff Tom Allman

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on August 12, 2011 Culture, Growing

Photo: Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman: “We are, of course, supportive of legitimate medical marijuana here.”

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

The Coming of the New Prophet

Rikess: Last time we spoke in August of last year… (See Toke of the Town’s 2010 interview with Sheriff Allman here.)

Sheriff: Seems like yesterday…

Rikess: (laughs) I know and still…you don’t write and you don’t call…

Sheriff: (laughs) Okay…

Rikess: So last time I was here, you said something that was incredibly right on. You said that there was going to be very little difference between George Bush’s administration and Obama’s, when it came to medical marijuana. You said that someone big in the attorney general’s office sat in the chair I’m sitting in and said, and I’m paraphrasing, “He guaranteed me that it was going to be the same under Obama as it was with George Bush. In the end, Eric Holder will handle medical marijuana the same way [the]George Bush [Administration] did.”

Sheriff: It wasn’t Eric Holder. It was a U.S. attorney. The chronological order was, the U.S. attorney came up here and said, (this is definitely under George W.), saying, “ummm, the U.S. government will not get involved with any marijuana cultivation, distribution, what-ever-you-want-to-call-it, that falls within the boundaries of California’s medical marijuana.”

Okay, thank you very much. And, you know, he took his dog and pony show and went somewhere else.

Then the presidential election happened, okay. Then in the primary or maybe it was before the general election, Obama just mentioned something about medical marijuana.

SWAT Team Storms Home; 2 Oz. Seized From Legal Pot Patient

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on June 17, 2011 Medical, News

Photo: FARK

Twenty police officers, some in masks and riot gear, stormed an Arizona home last week after receiving a tip that the owner was in possession of an ounce of marijuana.

The homeowner, Ross Taylor, is a legal, card-carrying patient under the state’s new medical marijuana law, and is therefore allowed to possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis, reports Ray Stern at Phoenix New Times. Taylor is also the owner of Cannabis Patient Screening Centers, a new company that matches up patients with doctors for medical marijuana recommendations.

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