Decriminalisation ends criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of a drug for personal use, but all other aspects of the drug market remain illegal. For Norwegian advocates of harm reduction, this might seem like a big step forward. They are probably right. Decriminalisation was not the only option on the table for Norway, however. As…
*Eugene, Oregon Women’s Day March 2017 Today, January 23rd, 2018, the city has announced its courageous decision to try to prevent as many more deaths as possible. Philadelphia will support the opening of safe injection sites in Philadelphia … It’s a testament to how far [a] city [can] come in a year If a safe…
It is one of 39 resolutions that the party opened up for online discussion Tuesday, January 16th, 2018 … On illegal drugs, the caucus resolution urges the government to adopt the model instituted in 2001 in Portugal, where treatment and harm reduction services were expanded and criminal penalties eliminated for low-level possession and consumption of…
Jeff Sessions has just shown “how out of touch he is with scientists and taxpayers” and that siccing federal prosecutors on pot offenders will just needlessly jam the jails with more prisoners, said Jasmine Taylor of Human Rights Watch. “This will no doubt spike arrests and fuel mass incarceration, largely for people of color, but…
Instead of allowing people to use a natural form of a plant that can cure them, Jeff Sessions will use taxpayer dollars to continue cannabis prohibition while his DEA grants a monopoly on the exact same substance—only synthetic—to Insys [who has attempted to stop the natural marijuana market and were arrested for allegedly bribing doctors]. Along with the executives,…
Perhaps the absence of the Cole Memo, and the outrage following its repeal, will finally get Congress to act and do something meaningful. In reality, the Cole Memo was limited, vague, and had no force of law – any Attorney General could overturn it at will (as… has… been done). It was the appearance of…
The federal government has mostly dodged these questions for years. But as more and more states legalize, it’s going to become much harder to deny where this is all going. Until Election Day 2016, only four relatively small states had done so: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. Altogether, these states hold more than 17 million…
“We want that recognition that cannabis is not a back-alley business,” said Terri White, a psychotherapist [at] Time for Healing dispensary. The ability to pay employees through an automatic debit system, buy supplies with a debit card and purchase marijuana through wire transfers put Maryland pot businesses a step ahead of pioneers in such states…
A growing bipartisan group of members of Congress has sought a legislative solution to the problem. House and Senate bills to provide permanent clarity to the banking industry about working with marijuana businesses have earned increasing cosponsor numbers, but haven’t been scheduled for hearings or votes. Because of banks’ reluctance to work with marijuana…
Our biggest problem now lies in addressing addiction to prescription drugs, while therapeutic uses for illicit drugs are coming to light … This issue can no longer be caught in a web of confusing regulations. Pioneering researchers are breaking through barriers, whether we are ready for it or not. And legislators are going to need…
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