United States supresses marijuana
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- United States supresses marijuana
- Pair charged over cannabis supply
- Legalized pot initiative backers light up debate
United States supresses marijuana
Roanoke Times – Sep 22, 2005
What was probably the last straw for Dupont was the fact that newspapers were now referring to him as the pot doc!Dupont changed his ways and now is one of the most prominent anti-drug zealots worldwide. Another Harvard graduate took a different path. Rick Doblin learned the truth about cannabis early on at the Kennedy school. He retold a story of an early assignment where he and his team were given a police department in Portland, Ore. Doblin insisted his team’s submission state that the Portland police resources could be better spent than on marijuana arrests. When their submission was chosen as a model paper by the professor, he was no longer afraid to stand by the truth…
government considers far too dangerous to handle. That plant substance is, you guessed it, marijuana. Doblin’s organization has been duking it out with the DEA for years and years over this. Ever since 1973, the DEA has used its immense power to stifle any progress into marijuana medical testing while all the while claiming marijuana should not be used medically since it hasn’t been tested. Very frustrating indeed. It is hard to believe that we have to do all this just to be in a position for people suffering from disease to use this medicine by prescription.
Pair charged over cannabis supply
NEWS.com.au – Sep 22, 2005
About 2kg of cannabis, a sum of cash and other drug paraphernalia were discovered in a West Dubbo house on North Street about 9am (AEST) yesterday, police said. A 32-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman were arrested and charged with supplying a prohibited drug, possession of a prohibited drug and goods in custody. They were refused bail and will face Dubbo Local Court today. Share this article.
Legalized pot initiative backers light up debate
East Valley Tribune – Sep 22, 2005
Despite its last defeat at the polls nearly three years ago, the medical marijuana issue has returned. And this time, the scope is bigger. The Marijuana Policy Project, which calls itself the nation’s largest marijuana policy reform organization, is pushing to legalize marijuana use for all adults in Arizona and six other states. The goal is to put pot in the same category as alcohol, with the same kind of taxes and regulation. “It’s about providing funding and providing organization,” said Krissy Oechslin, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit Marijuana Policy Project, based in Washington, D. “We’d like to bring it off the street and regulate it…
A request for proposals has been issued in the seven states, where grant applicants are asked to list “escalating tactics that would lead to a change in state law in three to five years via the state Legislature or the statewide ballot initiative process,” according to a job listing on the Internet. Those tactics could include organizing demonstrations, lobbying state lawmakers, building a coalition of supportive organizations and generating favorable news coverage. The effort would go much further than previous Arizona medical marijuana initiatives, but it’s not surprising, said Barnett Lotstein, a special assistant in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. “The objective was, once you get people to think of drugs as medicine, the next step is legalization,” he said. “The ultimate goal of people who propose the legalization of marijuana is the legalization of all drugs. ” Project officials, however, said their focus is only on marijuana. And while the organization supports the legal use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, the group is separate from the one that organized Arizona’s medical marijuana initiatives, said Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the project.