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  • 73 Percent of Americans Want Medical Marijuana Legalized

    73 Percent of Americans Want Medical Marijuana Legalized

    In October 1969, 84 percent of Americans opposed legalizing the use of marijuana, 12 percent thought it should be legal. Thirty-two years later in October 2011, Gallup found for the first time Americans broke the 50 percent threshold favoring legalizing the drug. Today, the November elections mark the first time voters popularly legalized the drug for recreational use. In Colorado, State Constitutional Amendment 64 passed 55 to 45 percent, and in Washington Initiative 502 also passed 55 to 45 percent, legalizing marijuana [...]

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  • Marijuana legalization a state issue

    Marijuana legalization a state issue

    Though it may seem the dust has barely settled from California’s failed effort in 2010 to legalize marijuana under Proposition 19, the winds of change may be blowing here again, this time from the north. Washington state voters, along with those in Colorado, have voted to legalize marijuana for adult use and to regulate within state borders production, transportation and sales. We plan to capture much-needed revenue while moving from a law enforcement model to a public health approach, emphasizing treatment [...]

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  • Should Medical Marijuana Be Legal in Florida? Petition Says Yes

    Should Medical Marijuana Be Legal in Florida? Petition Says Yes

    It’s been tried before in Florida and failed. But this week, an advocacy group is working on a new way to make medical marijuana legal in the state. The group wants to get the drug reclassified as a less dangerous substance, a path they’re hoping will lead to doctors being able to prescribe it in Florida. Days after Colorado and Washington voters approved the legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi got a petition asking [...]

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  • Counting the Days Till Marijuana’s Legal

    Counting the Days Till Marijuana’s Legal

    Back in the days when Cheech and Chong were more risqué than wrinkled, it wafted along as one of those cultural subgenres, with its own nudge-and-wink punch lines. If you got it and laughed, you implicated yourself — and laughed again. The police mostly kept their faces straight. But now the prospect of legalized marijuana in small amounts for personal use — approved by voters in Washington State and Colorado on Election Day — is creating a buzz of improvisation, [...]

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  • 2 medical marijuana bills head to Iowa Legislature

    2 medical marijuana bills head to Iowa Legislature

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bills that would decriminalize marijuana and approve its medical use may be headed for the Iowa Legislature after voters in Colorado and Washington decided that adults should be allowed to possess small amounts of taxed and regulated pot for recreational use. Iowa state Rep. Bruce Hunter, D-Des Moines, is preparing a bill that would decriminalize pot possession as long as those caught with it weren’t selling it, he told The Des Moines Register (http://dmreg.co/TMiixN ). [...]

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  • Will Illinois Become The 19th State To Allow For The Medical Use of Marijuana?

    Will Illinois Become The 19th State To Allow For The Medical Use of Marijuana?

    Illinois state lawmakers are expected in the coming days to once again consider legislation that seeks to allow for the limited use of cannabis by authorized patients. During a special ‘veto session’ to be held later this month, House members are expected to vote on House Bill 30, which seeks to establish a pilot program to allow for the state-authorized distribution of cannabis to patients with qualifying medical conditions. Previous roll calls have demonstrated legislative support in the House to [...]

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  • Marijuana dispenser: A classic penny-stock story

    Marijuana dispenser: A classic penny-stock story

    If you told someone you expected a tiny company with virtually no assets and income to go from being worth pennies per share to having a market value of more than $2 billion, they’d probably think you were drunk or high.   That kind of fantastic story is the stuff of spam e-mails sent by pump-and-dump scammers, or the realm of tiny newsletters — sometimes in cahoots with stock touts — where seemingly every penny stock is a rocket ship [...]

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  • MOMENTUM: Post Election, Marijuana Law Reform Bills to be Introduced at Both State and Federal Level

    MOMENTUM: Post Election, Marijuana Law Reform Bills to be Introduced at Both State and Federal Level

    The message from our big wins on Election Day has already begun to reverberate around the nation. Right on the heels of the votes in Washington and Colorado, several other states (and countries!) are already beginning to consider similar measures in their legislature. Last week, representatives from Maine and Rhode Island announced their intentions to introduce legislation that would tax and regulate marijuana in their respective states. Rep. Diane Russell of Maine and Rep. Edit Ajello from Rhode Island will [...]

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  • Wisconsin Marijuana advocates planning State Capitol lobby day Jan. 16

    Wisconsin Marijuana advocates planning State Capitol lobby day Jan. 16

    State medical cannabis patients and activists are planning a Medical Cannabis Lobby Day on Wed. Jan. 16, 2013 at the State Capitol in Madison.     The Madison and Wisconsin chapters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), along with Is My Medicine Legal YET? (IMMLY), the Wisconsin medical cannabis advocacy group founded by medical cannabis bill namesake Jacki Rickert, are joining forces to bring advocates to Madison. NORML has already filed permits for the event. [...]

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