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| 10 provocative quotes about legalization for global pot day | The history of 4/20 is somewhat hazy, but it is widely thought to be the work of a group of teenagers who in 1971 made a pact to find an abandoned c... |
| 19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal | Prop 19, the CA initiative legalizing marijuana, benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the ... |
| 4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition | It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Lati... |
| 50% of Americans support legalizing marijuana: poll | An unprecedented 50 percent of Americans think it's high time that marijuana should become legal in the United States, according to a Gallup po... |
| A Booming Business in Illegal Cannabis Plantations | German cannabis plantations are now edging imports from Morocco and Afghanistan out of the market. The trend began after the Dutch government began ... |
| A Call to Shift Policy on Marijuana | More people are arrested in New York City on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana than on any other crime on the books. Nearly all are b... |
| A chance for a scientific drugs policy | Last week Professor Roger Pertwee called for cannabis to be licensed for sale, and now Tim Hollis, the Association of Chief Police Officers' lea... |
| A federal-state showdown over pot | Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg... |
| A French economist argues for the legalization of cannabis | University of Paris economist Pierre Kopp wants to legalize marijuana for entirely economic reasons. Kopp tells Le Monde : "For economists, the p... |
| A hunger strike divides Switzerland | Imprisoned cannabis farmer Bernard Rappaz has been on hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest at a prison sentence he considers too high. Docto... |
| A miscarriage of justice on marijuana | As if America's highly-publicised "war on drugs" were not already facing a credibility gap, two US superior court judges – one in Washi... |
| A Puff in Paris | Napoleon's troops first brought over the mysterious dried leaf called hashish from Egypt in the early 1800s. Soon, it was being sold in pharmac... |
| A sensible approach to marijuana legalization that protects young people | The marijuana-legalization debate can too quickly become polarized. Guest columnist Roger Roffman argues that both sides need to tone down the rheto... |
| A win-win on drugs? Fighting gangs by legalizing pot | Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot. If approved by the Danish parliament, next year the city could grant licenses to indi... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dis... |
| All Eyes on California | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in qu... |
| Amsterdam's 'no toking' signs set to become more of a collector's item after legal setback | After an only-in-the-Netherlands legal reverse, the city of Amsterdam will likely have to stub out the "no toking" signs it introduced in a... |
| An altered state | Proposition 19 has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed. Back in 1972 a proposition to legalise the... |
| An economic perspective on the legalisation debate: the Dutch case | Understanding the consequences of drug legalisation versus prohibition is important for policy. Most recently this subject has gained much political a... |
| An Overview of Cannabis Policy | On October 2, 2008, the Beckley Foundation launched in the House of Lords its Global Cannabis Commission Report, an authoritative guide to the effects... |
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