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California Governor Jerry Brown: Marijuana Laws Should Be Decided By States

WASHINGTON -- California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Sunday the federal government should respect states' rights to decide how to regulate marijuana use, in light of votes Tuesday to approve legal use of the drug in Colorado and Washington.

"It's time for the Justice Department to recognize the sovereignty of the states," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

His state has legalized medical marijuana use, which is illegal under federal law. Colorado and Washington went even further by making marijuana legal even for recreational use.

Brown said he's not predicting another push to legalize marijuana for recreational use in California, calling drug use "dangerous."

"We already have a fair amount of marijuana use in the guise of medical marijuana," he said. "There's abuses in that field."

Still, he said Colorado and Washington should be allowed to do what they believe is right on marijuana law, adding there was adequate debate within the states on whether it was the correct move.

"We are capable of self-government," he said. "We don't need some federal gendarme to come and tell us what to do. I believe in comity toward the states, that's a decent respect."

Source: CNN

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WA Governor-Elect Inslee: It's in the Best Interest of State and Country to Allow Legalisation to Move Forward

My belief is Washington has worked its will. The voters have spoken. I was not supportive of the initiative but I’m going to be fully supportive of protecting, defending, and implementing the will of the voter—which will essentially allow the use of recreational marijuana in our state.

So I will be working to a very rational, mature ways to convince the [Obama] administration that it's in the best interest, not only of our state, but in our country, to allow our state to move forward in this regard.

And I believe that makes sense for the country for this reason: We have a principal of federalism in our country that has worked well. We’ve allowed states to be incubators of new ideas of, and I think it’ll serve the nation well to allow the state of Washington and Colorado to serve as incubators of a new policy. And I don’t think there’s any reason that that’s antithetical to national security or interstate commerce. This is a local decision of a local state, and we’re going to do everything we can in this administration in that regard and hopefully that’ll happen. I think there’s some positive signs that we’ll be able to prevail…….

I don’t want to be too optimistic about this but my sense is there’s an honest consideration going on in the administration. My sense is we probably won’t have a clear cut answer to that for some time, but I look at that as a good sign. I’m going to look at that as a glass-half-full here. I have not communicated with the administration. It’s a gut check, glass-half-full, the door remains open to allow our state to look forward as we have in so many ways.

Source: Seattle Met

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Recent campaigns that made Colorado and Washington the first states in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana are energizing efforts to do the same in New England, with lawmakers in Rhode Island and Maine vowing to push legislation next year to impose alcohol-style regulations and taxes on the drug.

Rhode Island Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, said Thursday that the passage of legalization referendums in the two Western states are the latest indication that American attitudes toward marijuana are softening. She said the regulated sale of marijuana would eliminate the black market while raising a projected $10 million in revenue for government coffers. The state would also save some $20 million a year simply by no longer arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating people for marijuana offenses.

"Our prohibition has failed," she said. "I think legalizing and taxing it, just as we did to alcohol, is the way to do it."

Maine Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, said she also will propose legislation to legalize marijuana in her state, and estimated that sales taxes on its purchase there would raise $8 million.

Robert Capecchi of the Marijuana Policy Project said he expects other states to follow suit. He said the successful efforts in Washington and Colorado may represent a "tipping point" for proposals long consigned to the political fringe.

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia now have medical marijuana programs, and 16 states, including Rhode Island, have rescinded criminal penalties for adults who possess small quantities of the drug.

Voters in Washington and Colorado approved ballot questions last week that will authorize adults to possess up to an ounce of marijuana. Both states are holding off on crafting regulations for its sale and taxation of marijuana while they await the response of the federal government, which classifies marijuana as an illegal drug but has often turned a blind eye to state medical marijuana programs.

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The NEW Cannabis Thread

Welcome to the New Cannabis Thread!

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MOMENTUM: Post Election, Marijuana Law Reform Bills to be Introduced at Both State and Federal Level

by Erik Altieri, NORML Communications Director

The message from our big wins on Election Day has already begun to reverberate around the nation. Right on the heels of the votes in Washington and Colorado, several other states (and countries!) are already beginning to consider similar measures in their legislature.

Last week, representatives from Maine and Rhode Island announced their intentions to introduce legislation that would tax and regulate marijuana in their respective states. Rep. Diane Russell of Maine and Rep. Edit Ajello from Rhode Island will be submitting these bills soon. Reports from Marijuana Policy Project indicated that Vermont and Massachusetts intend to follow suit.

Reform is spreading as far as Iowa. Today, Rep. Bruce Hunter announced his intentions of not only reintroducing his medical marijuana measure, but also a bill that would decriminalize the possession of cannabis.

The push for sensible reforms does not end at the state level, this week 18 members of the House of Representatives cosigned a letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder and Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart urging them to respect states that chose to experiment with new approaches to marijuana. You can read the full text of the letter here.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) also declared that she will soon introduce legislation, entitled the “Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act,” which would exempt states where voters have legalized cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act provisions related to the substance.

Leaders outside of the United States have also been following these recent reform efforts closely. Uruguay has just introduced legislation into their congress that would legalize the possession, cultivation, and state-controlled production of marijuana. In Mexico, lawmaker Fernando Belaunzaran of Party of the Democratic Revolution has introduced legislation that also aims to legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana.

Now that two states have legalized marijuana, the floodgates of reform have opened and each day more Americans, and people around the globe, are waking up to the reality that the prohibition of marijuana has been an utter failure. The statement delivered by the voters of Colorado and Washington is that we must regulate marijuana and do away with the societal ills caused by prohibition. Further, it showed that if the government isn’t willing to take the first step, the people will do it for them. We can only hope this recent wave of reform measures is just the beginning and we must work diligently to spread these rational policies nationwide. If history is any indication, like the end of alcohol prohibition before it, the one on marijuana will continue to crumble as more Americans continue to stand up, in growing numbers, and demand sensible marijuana policy.

Ruminating on the ‘domino effect’ of change, President Eisenhower once stated, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.”

May it be so with marijuana legalization.

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One question, where can you buy from now that it's legal? Will it be specialty shops or is every gas station gonna sell the herb like cigs?!

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I'm all for legalization...this is awesome.

One question, where can you buy from now that it's legal? Will it be specialty shops or is every gas station gonna sell the herb like cigs?!

For Washington, it goes like this:

Effective 6. December, possession of cannabis becomes legal for all adults 21 and over. You may possess up to 28,35 grams (1 ounce) of dried cannabis flowers, 2,13 L (72 fluid ounces) of cannabis-infused liquids, and 453,6 grams (1 pound) of cannabis-infused solids, or 'any combination' of all three.

The Washington State Liquor Control Board is setting up the system (they have said it will take about a year to complete). State-licenced cannabis shops should be available by December 2013. Up-to-date information is available at http://liq.wa.gov/marijuana/I-502

For King County and Pierce County (the two largest counties in Washington):

The above mentioned provisions for possession was put into effect immediately. The prosecutors from both counties have retroactively dropped all charges against those charged with cannabis possession, and have stated that they will no longer prosecute those charged with possession within the guidelines (allowing a buffer for scale inaccuracy).

For medical cannabis patients, the law (RCW 69.51a) has not been affected by I-502. This means that if you're cultivating medicine for your own use, you will still be allowed to grow up to 15 plants, and possess up to 24 ounces. Or, if you have formed a collective with other patients; you can grow and possess your limits collectively [maximum 10 patients]. No licence is required, however you will still need an authorisation from your doctor (or applicable health care professional).

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Will Illinois Become The 19th State To Allow For The Medical Use of Marijuana?

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director

Illinois state lawmakers are expected in the coming days to once again consider legislation that seeks to allow for the limited use of cannabis by authorized patients.

During a special ‘veto session’ to be held later this month, House members are expected to vote on House Bill 30, which seeks to establish a pilot program to allow for the state-authorized distribution of cannabis to patients with qualifying medical conditions. Previous roll calls have demonstrated legislative support in the House to be just shy of a majority. That said, today’s political landscape is far different now than it was in 2011 — the last time Illinois House members debated this issue.

Eighteen states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia — have enacted laws qualified protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. Seriously ill citizens in Illinois are only a handful of votes away from gaining this same protection.

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