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California: Get Ready To Vote On Pot Legalization In Nov.
Posted by admin in Political News on January 29, 2010
Do you live in California? Make sure you’re registered and ready to vote. Supporters of legalizing marijuana announced they have gathered about 700,000 signatures, making it almost certain that Californians will be able to vote on it in November.
California Pot Legalization Bill Up For Vote
Posted by admin in Political News on January 12, 2010
In a move proponents are billing the “first formal consideration of marijuana legalization in American history,” the public safety committee of the state assembly will today vote on Tom Ammiano’s ganja bill.
Congress Leader: Full Pot Legalization Can Happen Now
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on January 12, 2010
To hear one committee chair tell it, broke states can take the lead right now and save “tens of millions” of tax dollars by legalizing marijuana like booze. To hear a celebrity drug dealer tell it — well that’s a different story altogether.
Diggers: Boycott Chase for Cheating Pot Legalization Groups!
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on December 19, 2009
The New York Times reported on 12/18 that Chase Bank rigged its own Facebook contest to cheat Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Marijuana Policy Project out of the $25,000 that they won in the competition. A recent poll shows 53% of Americans support marijuana legalization. Boycott Chase if you support legalizing it!
Pot Legalization: An Idea That Appeals To Capatilists
Posted by admin in World News on December 17, 2009
“To put it crassly, there’s gold in them thar hills and people recognize that,” says California state assembly member, Tom Ammiano. He added that there are increasing feelers from entrepreneurs in his state regarding the question of marijuana legalization. “They smell something important,” he said.
Signature Gathering Success Sends Pot Legalization to Ballot
Posted by admin in World News on December 15, 2009
The Tax & Regulate Cannabis 2010 campaign has just achieved a major victory in its efforts to legalize marijuana for all adults in California – they have gathered the signatures necessary for inclusion on the state’s November ballot.”This is the next step to sane cannabis policies and the end to the hypocrisy and unjust prohibition of cannabis”…
Pot legalization on track to qualify for ballot
Posted by admin in Political News on November 24, 2009
The leader of an effort to qualify an initiative to legalize and tax marijuana says the campaign has now collected more than a half-million signatures and is on track to qualify the measure for the November 2010 ballot.
Support Growing for Pot Legalization – CBS News
Medical Marijuana Use Is Expanding as Movement for Legalization Picks Up Steam
Pot Legalization: Already A Moot Point?
Posted by admin in Arts & Culture on November 13, 2009
Chalk it up to happenstance but as Judge James Gray and the Drug Free America Foundation’s David Evans concluded their CBS News.com debate on pot legalization earlier this week, the American Medical Association urged the federal government to review its decades-old classification of marijuana.
Claim: NH cop being turfed for supporting pot legalization
Posted by admin in Political News on October 30, 2009
A police officer who once confronted Sen. John McCain about marijuana decriminalization is being silenced and possibly pushed out of his job with a New Hampshire police force for speaking out against marijuana prohibition, his supporters say.
Pot legalization expected to go to ballot in California
Posted by admin in World News on October 28, 2009
Opponents of a plan to legalize marijuana for personal possession in California have conceded that supporters of the measure are likely to get their proposal on a statewide ballot. Lawmakers say that a plan to tax the drug could yield as much as $1.4 billion for the state.
A Tale of Two Supermen, Mary Jane, and Alcohol
the Justice Department back states’ medical marijuana laws, and a Gallup poll show record-level support for pot legalization, we can look to two superjocks — Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps — for the key lesson about our absurd drug policy.
The Associated Press: Pot legalization gains momentum in CA
Posted by admin in Arts & Culture on October 7, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get at least three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.
California OKs Petition Drive for Pot Legalization
Posted by admin in World News on September 24, 2009
Two prominent East Bay marijuana advocates got clearance from the state today to try to put a pot-legalization initiative on the November 2010 California ballot.
CA state OKs petition drive for pot legalization
Posted by admin in Political News on September 23, 2009
Two prominent East Bay marijuana advocates got clearance from the state today to try to put a pot-legalization initiative on the November 2010 California ballot.
Pot legalization group targets Vegas – Las Vegas Sun
Posted by admin in Political News on July 13, 2009
The Marijuana Policy Project has set up its first state chapter in Las Vegas, launching another effort to get voters to legalize pot in Nevada.
California Stations Reject Ad Calling For Pot Legalization
Posted by admin in Political News on July 8, 2009
Three television stations in San Francisco and Los Angeles have rejected an ad promoting the legalization and taxation of marijuana, set to run on consenting stations and cable networks in the state beginning Wednesday.
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