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A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Maryland, with state-run production centers, is getting support from legislators in both parties.
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A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Maryland, with state-run production centers, is getting support from legislators in both parties.
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If you’re a legal medical marijuana patient in Washington and you thought your doctor’s recommendation protected you from search or arrest, you’re wrong. According to a new court ruling, you can be arrested and hauled into court every time an officer smells pot at your home — even if you are complying with the law.
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Seattleites protest marijuana laws in the annual Marijuana March, May 2008. |
As promised, Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing marijuana possession cases.
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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen wants to keep being able to bust all marijuana users — even the medical ones. |
Wisconsin’s attorney general claims legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes in the state would create serious problems for law enforcement.
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There are 166 million marijuana users in the world, representing 3.9 percent of Earth’s population between 15 and 64, according to a new study.
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Calm down, Chief. It’s just pot. |
Port Orchard, Wash., Police Chief Al Townsend is against legalizing pot, and he’s called a new bill to legalize marijuana in the state “ludicrous.”
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Here’s what pot does to you. Just ask Jill Wellock! |
Freelance writer Jill Wellock has a problem.
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THC-attle loves cannabis: Comely reveler at Seattle HempFest |
They don’t call it THC-attle for nothing. The Seattle City Council has voted to officially support bills currently before the Washington Legislature which would decriminalize adult possession of marijuana.
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Congress respecting the will of the people? What’s next, democracy? |
Eleven years later, it’s about time: The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the decade long ban on implementation of the medical marijuana law Washington, D.C., voters passed with 69 percent of the vote in 1998.
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America has a Marijuana Majority, according to a new poll. |
More than half of adults in the United States are ready to legalize marijuana, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. According to the new poll, 53 per cent of respondents support legalization, while 43 per cent are opposed.
Support for legalization is highest among Democrats at 61 percent. Independents favor legalizing pot with 55 percent, but only 43 percent of Republicans want to legalize.
Less than 10 per cent of respondents support the legalization of other drugs, such as ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
The use of marijuana is illegal in the U.S. except in some regulated cases of medical use in 13 states. The amount allowed for such purposes varies depending on the state. Some states have passed laws to reduce penalties for possession of small, “personal use” amounts of marijuana (“decriminalization”).