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- Senate Companion Bill To Legalize Medical Marijuana Introduced In Pennsylvania (6)
- Tennessee Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform (29)
- Mississippi teacher faces 30 years, $1 million fine, for growing marijuana (6)
- In Kansas, Eric Voth says Oregon ended workplace drug testing following medical marijuana law (1)
- Congressman David Price (D-NC) on marijuana legalization (15)
- VIP – Very Important Pothead of the Month: Roseanne Barr (6)
- Colorado Legalization Effort Comes up 2400 Valid Signatures Short (5)
- Latest Angus Reid poll: 52% of America supports marijuana legalization (23)
- Out-of-state patients may now get Oregon medical marijuana cards (3)
- Tyler Texas man gets 35 years for 4.6 ounces of Marijuana (17)
- Two medical marijuana proposals in Ohio (9)
- NORML Responds to Religious Cannabis Users: Ending Prohibition Protects ALL of Us (16)
- Teens in Britain getting legally high on synthetic cannabis banned across Europe (1)
- Washington Dispensaries: “Fast and Furious” Program Sparks Lawsuit and House Hearing for the Attorney General
- State | Colorado Dispensaries: NORML SHOW LIVE #851 – Legalization State
- State | Colorado Dispensaries: NORML SHOW LIVE #851 – Legalization State
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- Pepe's Non-Smoking Party Lounge: Pot smoking doesn’t cause lung disease: The lung cancer gene, part 1
- Rockin’ Friday: Lionize – “Superczar”
- NORML SHOW LIVE #851 – Legalization State by State
- “Fast and Furious” Program Sparks Lawsuit and House Hearing for the Attorney General
- Firefighters Mistake Butane Hash Oil Extraction Equipment for Pipe Bomb
- Ballot Measures Competing for Funds from Big Backers
- Washington State Bill Asking Government To Reclassify Marijuana Moves Forward
- Colorado Legalization Effort Comes up 2400 Valid Signatures Short
- The NORML Network / HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup “4:20 Somewhere” Raffles
- NORML SHOW LIVE #850 – Getting Ready for Los Angeles
- Oregon growers win case; drying marijuana is not usable marijuana
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- December 18, 2011–December 24, 2011
- December 11, 2011–December 17, 2011
- December 4, 2011–December 10, 2011
- November 20, 2011–November 26, 2011
They’re closer in the UK. Who’s going to get there first? Who’s going to be the first biggie to set the dominoes tumbling? Holland’s had their weight behind the push for more than three decades with fantastic results, Portugal leant into it a few years ago, also showing excellent results. Who’s going to be the big one with enough weight for the fall to start it off? America? Britain? Germany? Switzerland has already threatened a couple of times, but that probably wouldn’t be heavy enough to make critical mass… Although the balances change so quickly. It could even be Russia, China or India. All they need to do (see An Overview of Cannabis Policy: ‘Moving Beyond Stalemate’ (The Report of the Beckley Foundation Global Cannabis Commission – September 2008), page 154 (All of the pages around there are very interesting and provide perhaps the most well-balanced and realistic overview of the complications involved in re-legalising cannabis.):
Denunciation of a treaty is on the one hand a legal action that removes a
state’s obligation to comply with the provisions of a treaty. On the other hand, it is
also a public statement. As Helfer (2005:1588) notes, “withdrawing from an
agreement (or threatening to withdraw) can give a denouncing state additional voice,
either by increasing its leverage to reshape the treaty,… or by establishing a rival
legal norm or institution together with other like-minded states”.
So, who’s going to be the one to actually do it – to blow a big rasberry at the UN(US/UK)axis and denounce the treaty, reject it and accept it in modern form, as describe as a possibility in the Beckly report? It looks neck-and-neck between Britain and America to me at the moment.