Strategy, Timing Key To States’ Pot Legalization
SEATTLE (AP) – In the late-1980s heyday of the anti-drug “Just Say No” campaign, a man calling himself “Jerry” appeared on a Seattle talk radio show to criticize U.S. marijuana laws. An esteemed...
View ArticlePot Opponents Regroup Following Colorado, Washington Votes
SEATTLE (AP) – Kevin Sabet, a former White House drug policy adviser and an outspoken opponent of legalizing marijuana, watched with dismay last fall as voters in Washington and Colorado did just that....
View ArticleMarijuana’s March Toward Mainstream Confounds Feds
WASHINGTON (AP) – It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.” The next...
View ArticleCongress Looks At Justice’s Marijuana Decision
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is facing criticism over its attempt to straddle the federal law that makes marijuana illegal and state laws that permit recreational use of the drug. In the...
View ArticleFeds Letting Hemp Go Legit, Some Wonder If Pot Is Far Behind
DENVER (AP) – The federal government is ready to let farmers grow cannabis – at least the kind that can’t get people high. Hemp – marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin that’s used to make everything from...
View ArticlePoll: Nationwide Marijuana Legalization Inevitable
DENVER (AP) – Nationwide marijuana legalization seems inevitable to three-fourths of Americans, whether they support it or not, according to a new poll out Wednesday. The Pew Research Center survey on...
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