Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, explains that recent marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington isn’t simple. The Federal response (or lack thereof) will determine how the policy is actualized. Transcript With the victories for the marijuana legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington on Election Day 2012, it really presents the White […]
Former President Jimmy Carter is still supporting an end to penalties for using marijuana – a campaign started more than 30 years ago. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux sat down with Jimmy Carter in an interview aired in December 2012 to get his thoughts on the decriminalization of marijuana. As president, Jimmy Carter supported marijuana decriminalization in the mid-1970s and […]
U.S. Border Patrol agents said drug smugglers used a pneumatic-powered cannon to fire cans filled with marijuana into the United States. Investigators report that the smugglers crossed the Colorado River and entered a strip of U.S. territory on the Mexican side of the border fence. Armed with a pneumatic cannon, then used a carbon dioxide […]
With marijuana possession now legal in Washington state, and soon in Colorado as well, with 5 other states set to take up the issue soon. Residents face a confusing mishmash of federal and state laws when it comes to whether and where they can get high. The laws in both Washington and Colorado allow adults 21 and older to […]