US WI: Column: Relief, Not Reefer, Is Reason for Bill
Wisconsin State Journal, 20 Nov 2009 - It's nothing more than coincidence that Cheech and Chong are coming to Wisconsin next week just as a bill to legalize medical marijuana begins to make its way through the Legislature. The comedians' "Light Up America"tour celebrates the party-down use of the psychoactive plant.
US GA: Editorial: Grand Jury Should Decide Ayers Case
The Toccoa Record, 19 Nov 2009 - Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney Brian Rickman has done what many of us should do when faced with a difficult issue. Instead of falling prey to pride, vanity and an individual's innate urge to go it alone as many of us do in everyday life, Rickman has sought - and received - help from two other district attorneys in pouring through the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's report into the officer-involved shooting death of the Rev. Jonathan Ayers Sept. 1.
US CO: Column: Medical Association: Reconsider Pot
Boulder Weekly, 19 Nov 2009 - The American Medical Association's (AMA) recent recommendation to reconsider the federal status of marijuana is another step toward legalization of pot, no matter how much the group denies it. In its Nov. 10 statement, the AMA "urges that marijuana's status as a federal Schedule I controlled substance be reviewed with the goal of facilitating the conduct of clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines."
US IN: Edu: Column: Drug War Woes
Indiana Daily Student, 17 Nov 2009 - We tend to forget as a country that our longest and most costly war has been the war on drugs. Many people believe that this is a long-failing battle, and I tend to agree. This year, drug arrests are expected to exceed 1.8 million people, and law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations than any other crime in the past two years.
US WI: Editorial: Time to Legalize Medical Use of Marijuana
Wausau Daily Herald, 19 Nov 2009 - It is time that Wisconsin has a serious debate about legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. If the state engages in a serious, factual debate that is not derailed by ideology and political posturing, the State Legislature will have the compassion and humanity to legalize the drug for patients. A bill sponsored by two Democratic state lawmakers, Sen. Jon Erpenbach and Rep. Mark Pocan, will have a public hearing in the Assembly and the Senate on Dec. 15 and possibly come up for a vote in January.
CN ON: Editorial: Disordered Communities
Ottawa Citizen, 19 Nov 2009 - The gang problem in Ottawa is small, relative to other cities. But that doesn't make it easy to solve. Ottawa's level of gang activity is so far behind other Canadian cities that it would be ridiculous to use it as justification for increases to the police budget, a budget that is already difficult to keep under control. Besides, there's no reason to think that more enforcement alone would solve the problems this city does have.
US NM: Column: Preaching to Converts
Santa Fe Reporter, 18 Nov 2009 - Drug Policy Reform Enters a New Era--of Hard Work Medical marijuana is finally happening--but distributing it may be the least of New Mexico's worries. Such was the conceit of the International Drug Policy Reform Conference, which began just daysafter New Mexico's Department of Health approved four new medical marijuana producers to field demand from the state's 755 patients.
US PA: Edu: Editorial: Legalize Medical Marijuana
Phoenix, 19 Nov 2009 - Since the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, cannabis, also known as marijuana, has been federally classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has no legally accepted medical use and has the same classification as, for example, heroin. Over the last coupleof decades, however, that classification has started to be challenged, especially at the state level. Currently, 13 states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana. California was the first, passing the Compassionate Use Act in 1996 that legalized medical marijuana and ostensibly set regulations for the production and distribution of the drug. In recent months, New Mexico has begun "breathing life," to quote an Associated Press report, into its own 2007 legislation that legalized medical marijuana. That New Mexico has taken so long to formalize the systemization of medical marijuana is indicative of a larger national resistance to the notion of legal weed in the United States.
US WI: Editorial: Time to Legalize Medical Use of Marijuana
Oshkosh Northwestern, 19 Nov 2009 - It is time that Wisconsin has a serious debate about legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes. If the state engages in a serious, factual debate that is not derailed by ideology and political posturing, the State Legislature will have the compassion and humanity to legalize the drug for patients. A bill sponsored by two Democratic state lawmakers, Sen. Jon Erpenbach and Rep. Mark Pocan, will have a public hearing in the Assembly and the Senate on Dec. 15 and possibly come up for a vote in January.
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