#pot laws

[qupritsuvwix]

Ken Paxton sues five Texas cities that decriminalized marijuana

Voters in Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Elgin and Denton approved the policies in 2022. The attorney general said the ordinances are inconsis

[thekindland-blog]

As if 'democracy' means rule by people who think they know better.

[bakingwithbudd]

SALEM — Several members of newly unveiled panels that will create boundaries for Oregon’s legal marijuana market are tasked with helping rewrite laws they were charged with breaking in the past. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which will regulate recreational marijuana, picked 15 members from a pool of 700 applicants

pot laws done right.

[ramennotdiets]

People fail to acknowledge that 4/20 is a protest, a mass-demonstration against prohibition. You can make fun of it, like its just a bunch of selfish kids getting stoned, but every single person down there smoking is engaging in civil disobedience and it’s totally legitimate.

[lisaleaks]

Americans are finally charting a path to a saner national drug policy

Americans are finally charting a path to a saner national drug policy

The War on Drugs Is Burning Out

The Drug War is going to be won over dinner tables- as our generation “comes out” of the closet about their views on drug policy, and their history of drug use. Public support for marijuana legalization has never been higher, and while it seems like an obvious idea here in California, I see my fellow activists battling massive oppressive systems all around the US…

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[lisaleaks]

How much of the war on drugs is tied to International Treaties?

How much of the war on drugs is tied to International Treaties?

Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with the  International Drug Control Treaties, the United Nations anti-narcotics chief said.

The United States is in the midst of a cannabis revolution. Four states and the nation’s capital city have opened up the once-feared black markets and made marijuana available for legal purchase by most of the adult population. There is still…

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[lisaleaks]

The Insanity of War on Weed

The Insanity of War on Weed

‘The Culture High’

The Culture High is the riveting story that tears into the very fiber of the modern day marijuana debate to reveal the truth behind the arguments and motives governing both those who support and oppose the existing pot laws.

With legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington and interest elsewhere to follow that path, it might seem that decriminalization’s time has…

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[mudshark58]

According to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the annual number of deaths from prescription drug overdose is 25% lower in states where medical marijuana is legal compared with states where it remains illegal.

"In absolute terms, states with a medical marijuana law had about 1,700 fewer opioid painkiller overdose deaths in 2010 than would be expected based on trends before the laws were passed," says the study's lead author, Dr. Marcus Bachhuber, of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania.

However, the authors warn that the mechanism behind these results is unclear. Do medical marijuana laws have an effect on how people abuse prescription pain medicines, do people with chronic pain in these states choose alternative treatments, or is it something else entirely?

The study cannot answer this question and can only demonstrate a link between reduced death from opioid painkiller overdose and legalization of medical marijuana.

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Further study is required, but this is something which should be looked at more closely.