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  Rich Paul Is Appealing His 81-Year Prison Sentence For Selling Pot

  May 29, 2013 at 4:38 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Last month I wrote about Rich Paul, a pro-marijuana activist in Keene, New Hampshire, who was facing 81 years in prison for selling marijuana. Rich had refused plea-bargain deals (including one that would have let him walk away with no jail time) because he wanted to stand up for his principles—weed is basically harmless and you should be allowed to smoke it and sell it to your friends. “Somebody had to stand up and say that this is wrong, and I [...]

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  Barack Obama Should Move to Legalizing Marijuana

  May 9, 2013 at 10:21 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  What was your favorite badaboom in President Obama’s routine at the White House Correspondents dinner? Here’s mine, from when he was talking about how “the media landscape is changing so rapidly”: You can’t keep up with it. I mean, I remember when BuzzFeed was just something I did in college around two A.M. (Laughter.) It’s true! (Laughter.) Obama’s joke shows how far we’ve come since the not-so-long-ago days when standard operating procedure for a politician outed on pot smoking was to plead “youthful experimentation,” [...]

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  Legalizing Marijuana: Ways the U.S. and Mexico Can Win the Drug War

  May 6, 2013 at 8:45 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Barack Obama’s visit to Mexico this week. That’s because Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is in change-the-conversation mode: he wants the world, especially Washington, to focus less on his country’s awful drug violence — some 60,000 narco-related murders in the past seven years, with little sign of abating — and more on its robust economic potential. The fear in some Washington circles is that Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary [...]

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  Mexico Ready To End Failed Drug War Policies — Why Isn’t U.S.?

  April 30, 2013 at 8:15 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

  Did you know that the U.S. has been operating surveillance drones in Mexico, providing air support for the Mexican military, tracking the movements of Mexican citizens, sharing state-of-the-art spy technology with Mexican officials, and sending CIA agents to help Mexico train drug informants? Did you know the DEA has more employees stationed in Mexico than any of its other foreign posts? That Mexican nationals trained and bankrolled by the CIA raid Mexican drug cartels? Or that the CIA runs high-tech [...]

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• The War on Drugs Is a Failure [NY TIMES VIDEO]

  April 29, 2013 at 11:56 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  The War on Drugs Is a Failure [NY TIMES VIDEO]

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  Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Marijuana Legalization

  December 13, 2012 at 3:21 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Former President Jimmy Carter gave a full-throated endorsement of state efforts to legalize marijuana during an appearance at a CNN forum aired on Tuesday. Carter, who as president supported an era of marijuana decriminalization in the mid-1970s, told CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux that he was “in favor” of states that were taking steps to legalize the drug. “I think it’s OK,” Carter said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen in Georgia yet, but I think we can watch and see [...]

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