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This one seems to be doing the rounds.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard: Re-legalise & regulate Cannabis for personal, medical & industry use in Aus
The illegal drug industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, all of the profit going to criminals and dangerous organizations. If cannabis were legalised and regulated, the cannabis black market would be entirely eliminated and the immense expenditure on both the war on drugs and the sale of drugs could be turned to far more practical applications like the health & educational systems.
https://www.change.org/petitions/prime-minister-julia-gillard-re-legalise-regulate-cannabis-for-personal-medical-industry-use-in-aus?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_after_sign
More and more Americans want pot legal
(CNN) -- Last week, my op-ed in favor of cannabis legalization ran on CNN.com. This week marks three years since I first wrote that marijuana should be legal. I'm amazed at how the debate has changed in just a few years.
I was inundated with messages from readers, and was humbled by some of them.
Here's one from a Southern Baptist church pastor: "I have seen firsthand the heartache caused by America's prohibition against marijuana. I have visited young men in prison, who I knew in my heart should not be there ... It is time for us to speak out and tell the truth about marijuana ...
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/16/opinion/nathan-comments-on-pot-column/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
CNN Article
Getting smart on crime and cannabis
Conservatives have failed.
Liberals know the difference between being tough on crime and being smart on crime.
Stephen Harper keeps fighting a failed war on drugs that only benefits organized crime and increases gang activity. Harper is protecting their profits while failing to deal with the negative health and social impacts of drug-related crime in communities across Canada.
We need successful policies.
The billions spent have shown little results – and now as Harper spends more of your money on mega-prisons and plans to lock up marijuana users with hardened criminals, even U.S. Republicans are warning Canadians not to adopt failed American crime policies.
Liberals stand for an evidence-based crime policy.
The Liberal Party of Canada believes in a smart on crime approach, targeting real criminals instead of our youth, to keep our communities safe. Liberals understand the need to consider ending the prohibition of marijuana and addressing the root causes of crime to see real results.
http://www.liberal.ca/getting-smart-on-crime-and-cannabis/
Saw this and thought that it was interesting and related to this thread.
Canadian Liberal Party webpage
Walking around Couver last October I think smoko-clock was around 4pm - same time as it became tripple high beam cold.
A few people said the police have better things to do that pick up someone smoking a joint.
The earliest use of the term began among a group of teenagers in San Rafael, California in 1971.[2][3] Calling themselves the Waldos,[4] because "their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school,"[5] the group first used the term in connection to a fall 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about.[4][6]
The Waldos designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time.[5] The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". Multiple failed attempts to find the crop eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a codeword that the teens used to mean pot-smoking in general.[6]
I still fail to see how/why a state can have a legislatipon that directly goes against federal laws. Does this occur anywhere in Aus?
Not that i am against it, the US legal system is just baffling
The bill would also permit the licensed production of industrial hemp, a non-psychoactive agricultural crop used to produce a wide variety of legal products.
2 more States in the USA considering....
Hawaii - Aloha! Marijuana Legalization Bill Introduced in Hawaii
Indiana - Marijuana Decriminalization Bill Introduced in Indiana
Smart move.
HEMP can be used in so many ways.
Paper
Fabrics
Textiles
Rope
Oils
Maybe Gillard could introduce a bill to help the farmers and allow them to grow hemp?
From what I've heard, it's next to impossible to get stoned of Hemp (equivalent of 2 telegraph poles would needed to be smoked).
I believe the present hydro is 30 times stronger than myself and Bill Clinton didn't inhale in Little Rock in 1970. (I have the photos by the way to prove it).
...frozen in fear by the brainwashed ignoramus.Feels like we are stuck in the stone ages sometimes...
AUSTIN, TX – Two separate Texan lawmakers have filed separate bills in the state legislature to relax marijuana laws in the Lone Star State, although the proposals stop short of decriminalization or the legalization of medical marijuana.
Representative Harold Dutton (D-Houston) has filed a penalty reduction bill that would reclassify possession of up to one ounce of marijuana from a Class B misdemeanor, which carries a maximum $2,000 fine and 180 days in jail, to a Class C misdemeanor, which carries a possible $500 fine and no jail time. While stopping short of decriminalization, the penalty reduction proposal would be significant for a state known to have some of the toughest drug laws in the country.
Texas relaxing penalties. Step in the right direction.
Marijuana Penalty Reduction Bills Filed in Texas
I think WA has the toughest laws in the country.
Ant time I've visited WA it's felt like the time tunnel
"Drug policy has endangered political stability and security in many countries, and not just in Latin America," he said, citing Mali as one of several African countries to suffer.
Soros told a press conference that austerity was encouraging politicians, even in the US, to rethink the war on drugs. "Incarceration is hugely expensive … The cost of alternatives is smaller than the cost of incarceration," he said.
The billionaire philanthropist was speaking alongside the Guatemalan president, P̩rez Molina, who announced that he would host a meeting of Latin American leaders to discuss the issue in June. The gathering will involve several groups including the Berkeley Foundation and Soros's own organisation. "Prohibition, this war on drugs, has seen cartels grow and the results are not what we looked for," Molina said. "There is a new trend towards drugs now Рnot war, but a new perspective and a different way of dealing with the problem."
Dr Death: Fresh warning over the 'ecstasy' pill that kills
- Five UK people die from ecstasy containing PMA
- "You don't know what you're getting"
- Dr Death more dangerous than other pills
RECREATIONAL drug users have been warned about a highly toxic imitation of ecstasy following a spate of deaths in the UK from 'Dr Death' ecstasy pills.
Five young people have died over the past month in parts of the UK, reports the Daily Mail, after taking what they believed to be ecstasy, but in fact contained the dangerous substance PMA.
PMA, or para-Methoxyamphetamine, is a "synthetic amphetamine-type drug with both stimulant and hallucinogenic properties", according the Australian Drug Federation.
The Drug Squad says it's almost exclusively as MDMA - or ecstasy - posing a huge risk to recreational drug users.
It's more dangerous than regular ecstasy because it's known to cause death and takes longer to affect the brain - meaning users are more likely to double or even triple their dose.
Though PMA has been a problem in Australia before - six deaths were attributed to the drug being sold as ecstasy in South Australia in 1998 - experts warn that young people need to be extra vigilant.
"With any manufactured drug there is no guarantee of quality or quantity," said a spokesperson for the NSW Drug Squad.
CONCORD, NH ”” A group of five bipartisan lawmakers has introduced legislation that seeks to make New Hampshire the third state to legalize and regulate the adult use of marijuana.
http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/15098/marijuana-legalization-bill-introduced-in-new-hampshire/
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