It’s barely been a month since Uruguay moved to legalize marijuana, and yet the effects of the decision are already being felt well outside of its borders. Neighboring Argentina, a long-time proponent of keeping marijuana illegal, gave its first indication that Uruguay’s pivot has tempted it to at least consider legalizing the drug. The recently […]
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Want Legalized Marijuana? Better Hope America Stays Grumpy
Bloomberg BusinessWeekBy Devin Leonard The time is coming, predicts Euan Wilson, when people will smoke exotic varieties of marijuana, such as Maui Wowi, as casually as they drink Budweiser. How can he be sure? Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Drug Free America Helps Kill Pro-Pot Ad at Brickyard 400
Last week marijuana advocates were excited to hear that a pro-marijuana advertisement would air on ajumbotronjust outside of NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis over the weekend. The ad was to run 72 over a three-day period for the hundreds of thousan… High Times
How To Sell Marijuana In America
BusinessInsider.comBy Walter Hickey Denver Relief is the second oldest marijuana dispensary in all of Colorado, and years on the front lines of one of the most exciting emerging industries in the world has been good for the pot cultivation and retail company. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Obama Helps Nip Pot Legalization In Latin America
President Obama helped prevent a move toward pot legalization by some Latin American leaders. But will he be as bold against Colorado, Washington state? Peter Bensinger, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief, was one of eight former DEA chiefs who recently spoke out in favor of the federal government needing to nullify Colorado and Washington’s […]
The Many Different Faces Of Marijuana In America
On Tuesday, Vermont moved to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for quantities up to an ounce, replacing potential prison time for arrests with fines. Peter Shumlin, the state’s governor, made a telling distinction between weed and “harder” drugs when he announced the move. “This legislation allows our courts and law enforcement to focus their limited […]
Bill Maher on The Greening of America
It’s a brave new pothead world. Until fairly recently, even a year ago, I would not have guessed that we would be at the place we are now – with 18 states legalizing medical marijuana and, according to one recent poll, a whopping 85 percent of the nation supporting medical use. For all our political […]
How America Learned To Stop Worrying & Love MJ
For nearly a century, the United States has been one of the fiercest advocates and practitioners of marijuana prohibition in the world. At the height of the America’s anti-pot fervor in the 1950s and ’60s, one could even receive life imprisonment for simple possession of the drug. But the puritanical fervor that once dominated the […]
Marijuanamerica: Why America Loves Weed
HuffPost BlogBy Alfred Ryan Nerz Against all odds, more than seventy-five years after the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act, and after millions of marijuana arrests during the combined drug wars of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and even Obama, weed somehow seems to be winning. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz