Au Colorado, le « moment historique » des consommateurs de cannabis. LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Corine Lesnes (Denver, Colorado, envoyée spéciale) La neige matinale ne les a pas dissuadés.
Ils sont une centaine à faire la queue devant une petite boutique du centre de Denver, marquée d'une croix verte. Le toit ne trompe pas sur la marchandise : « Cannabis haute qualité. Service professionnel ». Quoi de plus important, un 1er janvier à 8 h 30, que de « vivre un moment aussi historique », explique Sean Alistair, 30 ans, un gobelet de café à la main. Pour la première fois aux Etats-Unis – et même dans le monde, les Pays-Bas n'en étant qu'à la dépénalisation –, la marijuana est en vente libre et accessible à quiconque a plus de 21 ans, sans même besoin de prescription médicale. Hemp: Could the US rekindle its love affair? 25 November 2012Last updated at 19:09 ET By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine, Washington DC Hemp, once a major US crop, has been banned for years because of its close association with cannabis.
But several states now want to resume hemp farming, and two states voted this month in favour of legalisation of cannabis. Could change be in the air? There's an all-American plant that weaves its way throughout the nation's history. US debates legalization of marijuana. US debates use of marijuana and its effect on urban areas By Tony Favro, USA Editor* 10 May 2012: President Obama’s trip to Colombia in April 2012 threw a spotlight on America’s drug policy.
The presidents of Colombia, Mexico, and Guatemala - countries that have seen limited returns for their inordinate sacrifices of human lives and financial resources to control the supply of illegal drugs - publicly chastised the United States for failing to curb its demand for drugs. The international focus on American drug policy has resurrected a debate within the US about the legalization of drugs, especially marijuana and how it may affect urban areas. . • Marijuana’s legal status • General legalization • Effect on cities The Obama administration has shifted US drug policy over the past three years away from its decades-old focus on jailing offenders to treatment and prevention.
Animal Health Colorado Pot Smokers Get Dogs High, Risk Death. Alisa Manzelli, Global Animal COLORADO — Many people assume if medical marijuana use is beneficial for themselves, it must be safe for their dogs as well.
24TH HIGH TIMES CANNABIS CUP - NOVEMBER 20-24, 2011 - AMSTERDAM. Facebook founder donates to California marijuana vote. 9 October 2010Last updated at 03:45 Mr Parker joined Facebook in 2004 and worked as the company's first president Facebook co-founder Sean Parker has donated $100,000 (£62,000) to support the US state of California's ballot measure to legalise marijuana.
Financial filings for the Proposition 19 campaign revealed the donation. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz also made donations totalling $70,000 to the measure last month. The pair are no longer with Facebook. Californians vote next month on whether to legalise the possession and sale of marijuana. "What's interesting here is that [Parker] is a member of the generation that really gets it," Drug Policy Alliance spokesman Stephen Gutwillig told the Associated Press news agency. "We think he's pivotal to the future of drug policy reform in the country," said Mr Gutwillig, whose organization will be the main beneficiary of Mr Parker's donation. Cannabis Culture LIVE at Oaksterdam for the Califo on USTREAM: CANNABIS CULTURE - Californians will go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2 for the historic.
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See also: A Big Mystery Involving The Origin Of 4/20 Has Finally Been Solved Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist, routinely plays with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, now touring as The Dead. He’s just finished a Dead show in Washington, D.C., and gets a pop quiz from the Huffington Post. Where does 420 come from? He pauses and thinks, hands on his side. Depending on who you ask, or their state of inebriation, there are as many varieties of answers as strains of medical bud in California. The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
The Huffington Post chased the term back to its roots and was able to find it in a lost patch of cannabis in a Point Reyes, California forest. It starts with the Dead. It was Christmas week in Oakland, 1990. NiteTiger comments on Question: When cannabis becomes legalized, will prices increase, decrease, or stay the same?