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High time to legalize marijuana?

patriotledger.com — Jean Augustin, 22, of Brockton, thinks using marijuana is OK, â€œas long as people donâ€™t get too messed up or get into a car when under the influence of it.â€ om Scolaro, 49, of Easton, used marijuana to ease the nausea from his cancer chemotherapy treatments. He says the Class D substance should be available to everyone, not just those who are sick. More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 11 days ago

Smoke this: Congress should consider legalizing marijuana

sdgln.com — The phrase â€œwar on drugsâ€ was first coined in 1971 by Richard Nixon after Congress passed the Controlled Substance Act that created five categories of regulated substances. Cannabis, also known as marijuana, was classified on Schedule 1 where it remains listed today with other highly addictive drugs like fentanyl, Ecstasy and heroin. Currently, 14 More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 14 days ago

Pot's detractors use fear, not facts

timesheraldonline.com — The latest screed by ex-law enforcement officer Lyndon Lafferty ("Don't let the marijuana myth live on," July 25) epitomizes novelist Upton Sinclair's famous quotation, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." Contrary to Mr. Lafferty's allegations, I neither claimed that marijuana is harm More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 33 days ago

A federal-state law inconsistency shouldn't stop Californians from legalizing marijuana

latimes.com — The law is the law. If we unquestioningly accepted that maxim, imagine where we would be today. Jim Crow would be alive and well, rivers and skies would be polluted, and women wouldn't be allowed to vote. Yet such is the mindset of many of those who criticize Proposition 19, the marijuana regulation and taxation initiative on the November ballot. I More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 36 days ago

Decriminalize marijuana: It's far less harmful than alcohol

mercurynews.com — The California Medical Association in October declared the criminalization of marijuana to be a failed public health policy. Its assessment is appropriate. Marijuana prohibition is a classic case of the so-called cure (criminalization) being worse than the disease (the private recreational use of marijuana). Consider the questionable efficacy of ou More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 47 days ago

Time to answer concerns to advance marijuana policy reform

seattletimes.nwsource.com — WASHINGTON - It's 0-3 this year for removing criminal penalties for possessing or selling marijuana for non-medical purposes. In the last session, the Washington state Legislature killed a bill to legalize marijuana. Another bill to reclassify possession as a civil infraction rather than a misdemeanor achieved a "do pass" recommendation in the More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 56 days ago

Effects of proposed California marijuana measure debatable

scpr.org — Larry Mantle talked to experts from both sides during a panel at KPCCâ€™s Crawford Family Forum. There are plenty of unresolved debates about the effects of marijuana, as well as the industry around its already-legal use for medicinal purposes. But, more fundamentally, panelists disagreed on how the issue of drug legalization should be framed. More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 73 days ago

Did California cannabis initiative come a cycle too soon?

capitolweekly.net — Recent statewide polls show that an initiative to legalize and regulate marijuana could be in trouble. But they also show that opinions skew heavily by age, giving encouragement to those who believe voters are still likely to choose legalization in the next few years if the measure loses in November. A Los Angeles Times/USC poll of 1,506 registered More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 85 days ago

Bad Medicine: Why marijuana advocates oppose an initiative legalizing pot

sfweekly.com — Law enforcement and pot smokers don't often see eye-to-eye, but some medical marijuana activists have something in common with the police: They don't like Tax Cannabis 2010, the much-ballyhooed ballot initiative that would make California the first state in the union to legalize â€” and tax, tax, tax â€” recreational cannabis use. Of course, they oppos More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 107 days ago

It is time to drop prohibition against marijuana

insidebayarea.com — WHEN IT comes to marijuana policy, California has been stuck in a fairy tale for decades. This fairy tale is like "The Emperor's New Clothes." Everybody can see that marijuana prohibition has done nothing to prevent its use. It's clear that arresting tens of thousands Californians every year for misdemeanor possession diverts police resources awa More... (Opinion)

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Devin Calloway submitted 109 days ago