President Barack Obama will highlight trade and business opportunities in Latin America at a regional summit in Colombia this weekend, but other leaders may upstage him by pushing to legalize marijuana and other illicit drugs in a bid to stem rampant trafficking. Obama, who opposes decriminalization, is expected to face a rocky reception in this Caribbean resort city, which otherwise forms a friendly backdrop for a U.S. president courting Latino voters in an election year. But the American demand for illegal...
JOPLIN, Mo.-- Voters in the Show Me State may soon decide whether or not to legalize marijuana. A controversial song that has some comical ideas about the illegal drug, but soon puffing and passing may not be something to laugh about. It soon may not even be a crime. Joplin resident ...it makes people crazy." Making marijuana legal could be a choice you have to make next year when you vote, and if it passes marijuana will be available for folks 21 and up. Medical marijuana will be available with a doctors...
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U.S. attorneys should back off medical-marijuana dispensaries
Posted By: weedman in Dr. Feelgood
THE federal crackdown on medical-marijuana dispensaries in California is wrong — a wrong policy and a wrong use of federal power to block social change.
President Obama was supposed to be for change. He appointed a drug-policy adviser, Gil Kerlikowske, who announced that the War on Drugs was "over." That was an exaggeration, but for medical marijuana it seemed to be so.
In October 2009, the Justice Department told U.S. attorneys they "should not focus federal resources" on "individuals whose actions...
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