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By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Las Vegas -- In a decision destined for appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, a state court judge has ruled the state's medical marijuana distribution law is unconstitutional. At the same time Friday, Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley dismissed drug trafficking charges against two men who operated a storefront pot dispensary in Las Vegas.
By Jonathan Martin, Seattle Times Staff Reporter Source: Seattle Times Seattle -- If there's one thing that brings people together, it's this: Marijuana regulation is a mess. http://www.DrReefer.com But the granular details about how to fix it divided a panel of law-enforcement and public-health experts convened Thursday night to debate Initiative 502, a landmark proposal to regulate and tax marijuana like liquor that is on the November ballot. John McKay, who filed the initiative after witnessing the "complete failure" of marijuana prohibition as the U.S. Attorney in Seattle for six years, said legalization was a "simple solution."
By David Klepper, Associated Press Source: Associated Press Providence, R.I. -- Rhode Island's top federal prosecutor has cautioned property owners intending to lease space to medical marijuana dispensaries that they could face forfeiture proceedings. http://www.DrReefer.com U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha sent the warning letters this week, according to his spokesman Jim Martin. Neronha had previously warned that the dispensaries, their landlords or investors could face civil or criminal sanctions, including the seizure of assets or property.
By Shannon Young, Associated Press Source: Associated Press Hartford, Conn. -- The Connecticut House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to legalize the medical use of marijuana, despite concerns raised by some lawmakers that those who manufacture and distribute the drug under the new state program could risk federal prosecution. http://www.DrReefer.com The bill passed 96-51 following about seven hours of debate. It now moves to the Senate for further action. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he supports the concept.
From Rolling Stone Source: Huffington Post Washington, D.C. -- Amid an increased crackdown on medical marijuana producers across the nation, including a recent high-profile raid on a California training school, President Barack Obama faced questions in a new interview with Rolling Stone about the seeming disconnect between his 2008 campaign rhetoric and his administration's actions since he took office."I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws [on medical marijuana]," Obama promised in 2008, according to an earlier Rolling Stone report. But Attorney General Eric Holder announced in 2010 that federal authorities would continue to prosecute individuals for marijuana possession, despite its legalized status in some states. http://www.DrReefer.com
By Ken Dixon, Staff Writer Source: Connecticut Post Hartford -- Legislation to allow marijuana to be grown and used in Connecticut for medical purposes cleared its third hurdle on Tuesday, when the General Assembly's Public Health Committee approved it 19-6.The next stop for the bill is the House of Representatives, as the May 9 adjournment date draws closer. http://www.DrReefer.com The bill had previously been reviewed and approved in the legislative Judiciary Committee, then last week in the Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee.
By Mark Kleiman, Jonathan Caulkins & Angela Hawken Source: Wall Street Journal USA -- Current drug policies do much more damage than they need to and much less good than they might, argues UCLA Prof. of Public Policy Mark Kleiman. He talks with WSJ's Gary Rosen about what's wrong with the war on drugs and what could be done to reduce the harm of heavy drug use. http://www.DrReefer.com "For every complex problem," H.L. Mencken wrote, "there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong." That is especially true of drug abuse and addiction. Indeed, the problem is so complex that it has produced not just one clear, simple, wrong solution but two: the "drug war" (prohibition plus massive, undifferentiated enforcement) and proposals for wholesale drug legalization.
By Rema Rahman, Associated Press Source: Associated Press Denver -- The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 is being replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators try to stamp out one of the nation's largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana. After more than 10,000 people -- students and non-students -- attended last year's marijuana rally on Norlin Quadrangle, university officials decided this year to apply the stinky fertilizer to the quad to deter pot-smokers. They're http://www.DrReefer.com also closing the campus Friday to all unauthorized visitors and offering a free campus concert by Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean timed to coincide with the traditional 4:20 p.m. pot gathering.
By Beau Kilmer Source: Wall Street Journal USA -- Discussions about legalizing marijuana should start with a few basic truths. One is that legalization would save the law-enforcement and social costs of arresting hundreds of thousands of adults each year. (Most proposals would keep marijuana illegal for those under 21.) Another is that pot's underground economy—estimated at $15 billion to $30 billion annually—would be largely wiped out if marijuana were legalized throughout the country. Finally, it is clear http://www.DrReefer.com that legalization would greatly decrease price and, therefore, increase the number of both recreational and heavy marijuana users.
By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Hartford, Conn. -- Legislation that would allow Connecticut adults to legally use marijuana for medical purposes continued Friday to move its way through the legislature, easily clearing a key committee.The General Assembly's http://www.DrReefer.com Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee on Friday passed the proposal 36-14. It now moves to the House of Representatives for further action.
By Alex Dobuzinskis Source: Reuters Colorado -- At a Denver dispensary for medical marijuana, state inspector Mark Brown makes his usual checks, verifying that employees wear name-tag licenses and the video surveillance system works. The store is a laid-back place with a popcorn machine, a "Reefer Madness" movie poster and plenty of pot, sold both mixed into candy and as buds.Brown mingles with the staff, among them a tattooed man rolling joints in a side room. Fellow inspector Paul Schmidt, http://www.DrReefer.com formerly an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, checks on the facility's marijuana-growing operation.
By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Austin, Texas -- Country music legend Willie Nelson was expected to help unveil an 8-foot statue of http://www.DrReefer.com himself in downtown Austin on Friday, which happens to be a national day of protest for the legalization of marijuana.The privately funded monument near the new Moody Theater shows Nelson in a relaxed, standing pose and holding his guitar to the side, as if in conversation. Philadelphia sculptor Clete Shields said the leaning pose and heroic scale are intended to show Nelson’s openness and whimsical side while honoring his tremendous influence on music and the city.
By Rema Rahman, The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Denver -- The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 is being replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators try to stamp out one of the nation's largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana.After more than 10,000 people — students and non-students — attended last year's marijuana rally on Norlin Quadrangle, university officials decided this http://www.DrReefer.com year to apply the stinky fertilizer to the quad to deter pot-smokers. They're also closing the campus Friday to all unauthorized visitors and offering a free campus concert by Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean timed to coincide with the traditional 4:20 p.m. pot gathering.
By John Hendrickson, The Denver Post Source: Denver Post Colorado -- When Damon Metzner needed a quick fix to boost ticket sales for a concert late last August, he found the answer on an increasingly popular website: Weedmaps.com.The event was a Monday-night hip-hop show at the Larimer Lounge, where Metzner works as marketing http://www.DrReefer.com director. Advance sales for the concert with rapper Afroman, known best for the decade-old stoner anthem "Because I Got High," were not meeting expectations.
By John Ingold, The Denver Post Source: Denver Post Boulder -- University of Colorado police have so far arrested three people — apparently students — and ticketed another in a crackdown on the annual pro-marijuana gathering known as 4/20.The arrests came around 1:30 p.m. today, when a trio of people crossed the police tape surrounding the university's Norlin Quad and sat down in the grass. Witnesses http://www.DrReefer.com said the three made statements in support of marijuana legalization and against the university's efforts to stop 4/20 gatherings on campus.
By Lucia Graves Source: Huffington Post Washington, D.C. -- When federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, Richard Lee's downtown Oakland, Calif.-based trade school, earlier this month, it wasn't simply a crackdown on a local pot business, it was one of the highest-profile moves in the Obama administration's nationwide assault on medical marijuana.DEA and IRS agents hauled away http://www.DrReefer.com computers, files and pot plants, leaving behind little more than office furniture. They did not disclose the reason for the raid and have not charged Lee with any crime as of yet. In an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post, his first since the raid, Lee, 49, blasted the federal crackdown as a senseless act of intimidation. "This is one battle of a big war," said Lee, "and there's thousands of battles going on all over."
By Amy Brittain, The Star-Ledger Source: Star-Ledger Montclair -- Gov. Chris Christie today said the top boss of the Montclair-based medical marijuana dispensary “should stop complaining and get back to work.” Christie’s comments were directed at Joe Stevens, the CEO of Greenleaf Compassion Center, which Monday became New Jersey’s first medical marijuana center to receive a permit to grow the crop.By accusing Greenleaf of foot-dragging, the governor was in a sense turning the tables on the http://www.DrReefer.com marijuana center. Christie and his administration have been heavily criticized for long delaying the launch of the medical marijuana program.
By UPI Source: United Press International Washington, D.C. -- The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug strategy, which leans heavily on preventing and treating addiction.The 2012 National Drug Control Strategy incorporates http://www.DrReefer.com programs and laws dating to 2009 and aims to break the cycle of addiction and incarceration that has frustrated law enforcement and policymakers.
By Jan Hefler, Inquirer Staff Writer Source: Philadelphia Inquirer New Jersey -- Weeks after New Jersey officials drew criticism from patients and others that they were delaying the state's two-year-old medical marijuana program, the Department of Health and Senior Services is allowing the first http://www.DrReefer.com seeds to be planted.The department announced Monday that the Greenleaf Compassion Center, in Montclair, Essex County, was given a permit to begin growing cannabis for people with certain serious diseases and debilitating conditions.
By Heather Haddon Source: Wall Street Journal Montclair -- New Jersey granted its first permit Monday for a Montclair facility to immediately begin growing medical marijuana, a significant step in the program first http://www.DrReefer.com legalized more than two years ago. If Greenleaf Compassion Center also secures a permit for its storefront disciplinary, medicinal marijuana could be available to state residents with chronic diseases by midsummer, said Donna Leusner, spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Senior Services, the agency implementing the program.
By Matt Ferner Source: Huffington Post Colorado -- On Monday, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced that the Colorado Democratic Party officially endorsed Amendment 64 at its state convention and assembly in Pueblo over the weekend.In a press statement, Cindy Lowery-Graber, chair of the Denver County Democratic Party, said this about the Democratic support of pot legalization:
By Jan Hefler, Inquirer Staff Writer Source: Philadelphia Inquirer New Jersey -- Rich Caporusso says he witnessed the therapeutic power of marijuana about a decade ago, as a cherished family member lay in the hospital dying of lung cancer.A pot-laced cookie, smuggled into her room, freed his relative from her stupor and enabled her to speak to her loved ones for the final time, said Caporusso, 32. "It was absolutely amazing to me to see a drug taught to me as a child as killing brain cells was a godsend," the Medford resident said.
By Jackie Calmes Source: New York Times Cartagena, Colombia -- Leaders at a summit meeting of many of the Western Hemisphere nations on Saturday discussed alternatives to what many consider a failed “war on drugs” that is too reliant on military action and imprisonment. But President Obama said flatly that “legalization is not the answer.” The issue was placed on the agenda of the Summit of the Americas this weekend by the host, Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos. Even so, Mr. Santos suggested that he had in mind some unspecified middle ground short of fully decriminalizing the drug trade that for years has undermined societies throughout the region, notably in Colombia.
By Dominic Holden Source: New York Times Seattle, WA -- It was January of 1998 when a friend and I drove to a basement in South Seattle to set up a pot garden. We were terrified. If a police officer pulled us over, how would we explain these bags of rapid-bloom fertilizer — in winter? http://www.DrReefer.com Still, we had to go. A friend was suffering from the late stages of a degenerative muscular disease. He spent all day strapped into something that looked like a hospital bed crossed with an easel. Smoking pot helped ease his pain; after his wife held joints to his lips, he would eat soup. He would watch TV. He’d laugh.
By David Sirota Source: Salon USA -- Something as massive and amorphous as America’s War on Drugs can be difficult to imagine in concrete terms. This web of failed policies is so huge, so persistent and so deeply woven into the fabric of our nation that it’s hard to envision an alternative — or even appreciate what the conflict is currently siphoning resources away from. http://www.DrReefer.com That’s why the past week has been so important for the cause of ending the drug war — because it has provided three tragic examples of how that war harms not only its dead and/or incarcerated victims, but also how it makes society as a whole more susceptible to horrific crimes.
By Lauren Fox, U.S. News & World Report Source: Chicago Tribune Washington, D.C. -- President Barack Obama touted a progressive attitude on medical marijuana on the campaign trail, but since taking office, Obama's administration has hardened its stance and supporters of the drug are crying foul on the flip-flop. http://www.DrReefer.com In a March 2008 interview, Obama told the Oregon Mail Tribune that medical marijuana ranked low on his list of priorities.
By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Massachusetts -- With a question poised to go before voters in the fall legalizing medical marijuana, Attorney General Martha Coakley on Thursday said she worried the policy proposal would be difficult and costly to enforce if it passes. http://www.DrReefer.com “My position is if this passes as a ballot question it’s going to cause a huge headache making sure it’s not abused,” Coakley said during her monthly appearance on WTKK-FM.
By Maggie Clark Source: Bellingham Herald Washington -- Twelve years after Colorado legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, more than 85,000 people have been certified by the state health department to use it. Now, there is increasing concern about a rise in traffic accidents caused by people under the influence of marijuana.Between 2006 and 2010, more than 300 fatal accidents involved drivers who tested positive for cannabis, according to the Colorado Department of Highway Safety. That's why Republican state Sen. Steve King wants Colorado to set a legal limit for marijuana intoxication, somewhat similar to the 0.08 percent blood alcohol limit states put on driving under the influence of alcohol. http://www.DrReefer.com And in California, Democratic Assemblywoman Norma Torres wants to set a zero-tolerance ban on driving under the influence of any drug, including marijuana.
By George Will, Syndicated Columnist Source: Seattle Times Washington, D.C. -- Amelioration of today's drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold here. The same 80-20 split obtains among users of illicit drugs.About 3 million people — less than 1 percent of America's population — consume 80 percent of illegal hard drugs. http://www.DrReefer.com Drug trafficking organizations can be most efficiently injured by changing the behavior of the 20 percent of heavy users, and we are learning how to do so. Reducing consumption by the 80 percent of casual users will not substantially reduce the northward flow of drugs or the southward flow of money.
