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Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
If your strategy to legalize the use of plant cannabis by all people for any reason is to preach “All use is medical/wellness”, cannabinoid pharmaceuticals is where you’ll end up. There exists a paradigm for the medical / wellness use of substances, and it lies in the realm of doctors and pharmacists and prescriptions and manufactured drugs. However, there also exists a paradigm for the recreational use of substances, and it lies in the realm of taverns and bartenders and DUI laws and ID checks and home brewing.
Medical marijuana found in 4,200-year-old Dutch grave
Pollen thought to come from a marijuana plant has been found in a grave in Gelderland dating back 4200 years.
Newt Gingrich proves his ignorance of America’s marijuana heritage in New Hampshire
During a town hall-style appearance in Concord, the former House Speaker said he had no interest in exploring drug decriminalization, arguing that such efforts haven’t worked in Europe.
NORML SHOW LIVE #817
SPECIAL REPORT: Live coverage on the Dutch police raid of the HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.
Dutch researcher: “Locals only” coffee shops would create more problems than they solve
So the foreigners who would cross the border into Holland for their cannabis will turn to the streets when the coffee shops aren’t available. The growers who supply the coffee shops can make more money selling for higher prices in the street than are found in the shops. The Dutch citizens who value their privacy will also turn away from the coffee shops and get their cannabis in the streets.
Stash for Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Tere Joyce and Jason MacCloud in SoCal Scene; “Red Cell” mock attack imagines pot growers as terrorists; music by Slightly Stoopid.
The Netherlands Cracks Down on Cannabis Tourism
The Dutch government said yesterday that it wanted to try and ban tourists from buying cannabis in the famed “coffee shops” in the country where hash is on sale legally. The Netherlands has one of Europe’s most liberal soft drug policies and street-side coffee shops have been a popular tourist attraction in Amsterdam and border cities for decades. There has already been an effort to clamp down on what the country calls “drug tourism” in the country’s border cities near Belgium and Germany.
The Hill: “Obama Drug Plan ‘Firmly Opposes’ Legalization as California Vote Looms”
Is anyone surprised? You shouldn’t be. After all, this is the same Gil Kerlikowske that has said repeatedly that legalization is not in his vocabulary, and publicly stated, “Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit.” And this is the same administration that recently nominated Michele Leonhart to head the DEA — the same Michele Leonhart who overruled the DEA’s own administrative law judge in order to continue to block medical marijuana research, and publicly claimed that the rising death toll civilians attributable to the U.S./Mexican drug war “a signpost of the success” of U.S. prohibitionist policies.
The DEA’s Top Ten “Facts” on Legalization
Fact 1: We have made significant progress in fighting drug use and drug trafficking in America. Now is not the time to abandon our efforts.
The Legalization Lobby claims that the fight against drugs cannot be won. However, overall drug use is down by more than a third in the last twenty years, while cocaine use has dropped by an astounding 70 percent. Ninety-five percent of Americans do not use drugs. This is success by any standards.
Stash for Thu, Mar 25, 2010
Peter Christ from LEAP on drug legalization; Madeline Martinez on Oregon legalization passing judicial hurdle; music by Hollis.