Ex-Microsoft manager plans to create first U.S. marijuana brand Show-Me Cannabis Regulation - Missourians for Cannabis Policy Reform Jimmy Carter: ‘I do not favor’ legalizing marijuana - Kevin Robillard The haze surrounding Jimmy Carter’s position on marijuana legalization has lifted. Six months after the former president told a Georgia crowd he supported state efforts to legalize marijuana use, Carter told gathering in Atlanta on Friday he supported keeping weed illegal. Continue Reading Obama on the legalization of pot ( PHOTOS: 9 pols who talked pot ) “I do not favor legalization,” Carter said, according to a statement from Smart Approaches to Marijuana. SAM , as the group is known, was founded by conservative writer David Frum and former Rep. ( Also on POLITICO: Illinois Senate OKs medical marijuana bill ) Carter’s tune was different in December, when it was widely reported he had backed Washington state and Colorado’s decision to allow residents to legally buy and grow the drug. “I’m in favor of it. ( PHOTOS: Presidents and their spouses ) In his speech Friday, Carter was more cautious about what could happen in Colorado and Washington.
Drug War Clock | DrugSense Researchers examining the effectiveness of ONDCP's anti-drug media campaign reported: "The NSPY [National Survey of Parents and Youth] did not find significant reductions in marijuana use either leading up to or after the Marijuana campaign for youth 12 to 18 years old between 2002 and 2003. Indeed there was evidence for an increase in past month and past year use among the target audience of 14- to 16-year-olds, although it appears that the increase was already in place in the last half of 2002, before the launch of the Marijuana Initiative. It will be worthwhile to track whether the nonsignificant decline from the second half of 2002 through the first half of 2003 is the beginning of a true trend. Marijuana Repeal Considered In Colorado Get CBS4 News Updates In Your Inbox Sign up for News, Sports, Broncos and Health Emails. Sign Up DENVER (AP/CBS4) — Marijuana legalization could be going back to the ballot in Colorado — a prospect that infuriated pot legalization activists Friday. The proposal for a marijuana ballot measure came as the House started debate Friday evening on bills to regulate and tax pot. A draft bill floating around the Capitol late this week suggests that a new ballot question on pot taxes should repeal recreational pot in the state constitution if voters don’t approve 15 percent excise taxes on retail pot and a new 15 percent marijuana sales tax. Lawmakers have only a few days left to finish work deciding how to regulate the newly legal drug. Marijuana activists immediately blasted the proposal as a backhanded effort to repeal the pot vote, in which 55 percent of Coloradans chose to flout federal drug law and declare pot legal in small amounts for adults over 21. Sen.
Cannabis Vault : Timeline 73. [...] After burying their dead, Scythians purify themselves. First they anoint and rise their hair, then, for their bodies, they lean three poles against another, cover the poles with felted woolen blankets, making sure that they fit together as tightly as possible, and then put red-hot stones from the fire on to a dish which has been placed in the middle of the pole-and-blanket structure. 74. Now there is a plant growing in their country called cannabis, which closely resembles flax, except that cannabis is thicker-stemmed and taller. In Scythia, in fact, it is far taller. 75. Two shot at Denver's Civic Center 4/20 pot rally The Denver Post Posted: 04/20/2013 05:08:35 PM MDT|Updated: about a year ago Denver Paramedics, Denver Police officers and good samaritans at the scene attend to a shooting victim at Civic Center Park in Denver Colorado, Saturday April 20th, 2013 after the 4/20 pot rally. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post) Two people were shot in the leg at Denver's Civic Center during Saturday's 4/20 pot rally and a third person was grazed by a bullet. A man and a woman were both shot, said Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson. Both victims are in their 20s. Police are looking for at least two suspects involved in the shooting. Crowds scattered around 5 p.m. when shots were heard Saturday. Both of the victims were shot near the outdoor Greek theater. Denver police are asking witnesses that fled to come forward with information, Jackson said. "Everybody fled. Officers are looking for two men. The second suspect was described as a black man wearing a black-and-white checkered shirt. "It was peaceful.
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