Tuesday afternoon, the Colorado Springs City Council voted to ban all marijuana on any city or airport property for any reason. Even the needs of medical marijuana patients got no special consideration. This is a letter to the City Council… Read More ›
Policy & Politics
Colorado mulls lessons from 1st month of marijuana sales
On Jan. 1, Colorado became the first state in the nation to allow legal retail sales of recreational marijuana. Washington state, where voters also legalized the drug in 2012, is expected to launch its marketplace in the coming months. [Colorado’s… Read More ›
How Marijuana Became Public Enemy Number One
The Controlled Substances Act and the War on Drugs is a complete sham, and has been from the very beginning. Over a decade ago, when the Nixon tapes came out, we saw that the foundation of the War on Drugs… Read More ›
Marijuana policy highlights conflict between morality and liberty for the GOP
From Politico: If marijuana, long illegal under federal law, is permitted by a state, smoking pot in that state—or buying it, or selling it—is both legal and illegal at once. And although the Justice Department and its law-enforcement authorities have allowed… Read More ›
Does Jailing Marijuana Users Make More Sense than Jailing Coffee Drinkers?
Twenty years ago marijuana was considered the least dangerous drug. It’s still the least dangerous drug. And yet people across the country are still losing their jobs, their housing, their children, their freedom because they dare to associate with a… Read More ›
Opposing marijuana is a faulty strategy for re-election
Today on This Week, George Stephanopoulos interviewed the governors of the two states with teams playing in the Super Bowl. Coincidentally enough, these two states love their weed almost as much as they love their football, clearly demonstrating such attachment… Read More ›
Born to be an advocate?
It was 1972. I was in Eighth Grade. Editor of my middle school paper, the Viking Venture. Already an advocate, a peacemaker, a psychologist, a sociologist. Sometimes who you are meant to be is inside you all along. Fresh off… Read More ›
Will lawmakers in Wyoming make nice next month?
Weed whacking Colorado style It’s only a matter of time before Wyoming gets weed greedy watching her neighbor to the south tap the lucrative marijuana market. How long can lawmakers hold out before they are pressured into luring back Cheyenne-Laramie… Read More ›
Why No Parent Should Support CBD-only Legislation
PHOTO: Renee Petro In recent weeks, there has been an explosion of newly proposed legislation on CBD-rich cannabis extracts, the type of medical marijuana featured as a treatment for epilepsy in Sanjay Gupta’s “Weed” special in the summer of 2013…. Read More ›
Alepsia + Charlotte’s Web + Extracted Oil = Medical Marijuana. Deal With It.
Call it extracted oil, call it Alepsia, call it Charlotte’s Web, but the fact remains: it comes from the marijuana plant. Last year, I had a meeting with an extremely conservative state senator in New Jersey. I went along with… Read More ›
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