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  Is President Obama Bullied By The United Nations To Not Decriminalize Marijuana?

  February 20, 2014 at 5:55 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have recently been receiving a lot of pressure from lawmakers to remove marijuana from its classification as a dangerous narcotic. In a letter signed by 18 members of Congress last week, the President was encouraged to instruct Holder to “delist or classify marijuana in a more appropriate way, at the very least eliminating it from Schedule I or II.” In this video taped in 2004, President Obama said publicly that he believed [...]

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  More Americans Are Using Marijuana

  September 4, 2013 at 8:51 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  As the nation takes a softer stance on marijuana, more Americans are using the drug, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found. The nationwide survey made public Wednesday found that 7.3% of Americans 12 or older regularly used marijuana in 2012, up from 7% in 2011. Marijuana use has increased steadily over the past five years. In 2007, the survey found that 5.8% of Americans 12 or older used marijuana. The report from the Substance Abuse and Mental [...]

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  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to Visit Berkeley, Marijuana Supporters to Protest

  May 11, 2013 at 12:05 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Eric Holder is a survivor. The United States attorney general’s record during President Obama’s first term was more than a bit spotty: Holder angered the left when he defended Obama’s use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without court proceedings and when he said he couldn’t prosecute the banks that gambled away Americans’ wealth (and then received more of their money via a taxpayer bailout) Meanwhile, the right called for his head for his role in the “Fast and the [...]

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