420 Policies and Laws

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Washington: Marijuana Licencing Webpage Now Available

The Marijuana Licensing section of the WSLCB website is now up and running. While you cannot apply for a license until November 18 the page is full of useful information about the licensing process

Apply for a Marijuana Licence

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The Washington State Liquor Control Board (WSLCB) Marijuana Licensing staff will conduct a series of education seminars across the state. These seminars are an opportunity for our staff to walk potential licensees through the application process and answer any additional questions they might have. A complete listing of the seminars is available online.

Space is limited to between 80-120 attendees at each event (depending on the venue) so reservations are available on a first come/first served basis. After completing the online registration, attendees will receive an electronic confirmation email. Attendees will be required to show their confirmation as proof of registration prior to entry. We look forward to seeing you soon.

[Bigblue1]

Seems like getting a marijauna license will be easier than figuring out Obamacare.

[sirloot]

Majority Of Texas Voters Want To Legalize Marijuana

A majority of Texas voters support marijuana legalization, according to a recent survey.

Public Policy Polling found that 58 percent of Texans "support making marijuana legal for adults and regulating it like alcohol." Even more -- 61 percent -- were in favor of decriminalizing marijuana possession and instead punishing violations with a civil citation.

Texas law currently views possession of marijuana, even on a minute scale, as a criminal offense, punishable by $2,000 in fines and up to a year of jail time.

The PPP survey of 860 randomly selected Texas voters was released by the Marijuana Policy Project.

"Most Texans agree that marijuana sales should be conducted by legitimate businesses instead of drug cartels in the underground market," MPP executive director Rob Kampia said in a release.


full story here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4064808.html

[sirloot]

North America’s Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot

The Mexico City bills are part of a wave of marijuana proposals across the Americas in the wake of the American states of Colorado and Washington voting to legalize cannabis last November. The Uruguayan lower house has passed a legalization law, which the senate is expected to vote on this month, and advocates are looking at measures from Brazil to Argentina to Canada. While the United States was long a world leader in drug prohibition, U.S. legalization has now become influential force outside its borders. Alison Holcomb, the chief architect of the Washington state law, has spoken across the continent this year, including at a recent forum in Mexico. “I have seen a sea change in thinking. People are no longer asking if it can be done, but how it can be done,” says Holcomb, who is the drug policy director for the ACLU in Washington state. If the Mexican capital, which is the largest city on the continent, were to legalize marijuana, it would add even momentum to the pro-legalization wave, possibly paving the way for similar measures in other Mexican states and in neighboring Central American nations such as Guatemala. “The war against drugs is a failure. We are not going to win it,” says Assemblyman Vidal Lleranas who is working on the legislation. “We cannot hope for a drug free world. But we can hope to limit the damage and take the profits away from organized crime.”

full story here : http://news.yahoo.com/north-america-...163042830.html

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HISTORIC HIGH: 58% of Americans Want Marijuana Legalized

Gallup released new polling data today that shows an overwhelming majority of Americans want marijuana to be legalized. According to their survey, 58% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, while only 39% are opposed. This is up significantly from the last time Gallup polled the question in 2012, when only 48% of Americans were in favor and 50% were opposed. For historical perspective, the first time they surveyed this question in 1969 a paltry 12% of Americans were in favor of legalization.

The support for marijuana legalization has seen unprecedented momentum in the past several years. Gallup observes, “Whatever the reasons for Americans’ greater acceptance of marijuana, it is likely that this momentum will spur further legalization efforts across the United States. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say taxing and regulating the drug could be financially beneficial to states and municipalities nationwide.”

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Marijuana Moves Into the Mainstream

Read more at: Townhall.com ^ |


When opinion shifts in modern America, the change can be like a flash flood. Three years ago, 54 percent of California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Last year, Colorado and Washington voters approved measures to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Last week, Gallup released a poll that found that 58 percent of Americans support legalizing the recreational use of marijuana -- a 10-point jump from one year ago. Sunday's New York Times reports that a template for how the two states will regulate marijuana may be found in California.
Since voters approved Proposition 215 to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, Adam Nagourney and Rick Lyman report, the requirements for getting a medical marijuana card "have been notoriously lax."
It turns out Prop 215 opponents were right and wrong.
The official ballot argument against Prop 215 argued that the measure was designed to "exploit public compassion for the sick in order to legalize and legitimatize the widespread use of marijuana in California." Clearly, some recreational users have gamed the system.
But they were wrong about the outcome. Despite dire warnings about Prop 215's shielding drug dealers and allowing unlimited quantities of marijuana to grow near schoolyards, medical marijuana doesn't seem to have increased teenage use.
A 2012 study found "little evidence of a relationship between legalizing medical marijuana and the use of marijuana among high school students." Researchers D. Mark Anderson of Montana State University and Daniel I. Rees of the University of Colorado examined the data in Los Angeles, where the number of dispensaries surged to more than 600 by 2010, and found teen usage to be no greater than in cities without medical marijuana dispensaries.
In a piece published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Anderson and Rees linked legal medical marijuana to a reduction in heavy drinking among 18- to 29-year-olds and a 5 percent decrease in beer sales.
The journal also published a counterpoint piece that found the evidence on marijuana use leading to less alcohol use was mixed and uncertain.
There are three things we know:
1) Alcohol abuse is more dangerous than marijuana abuse. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta found no documented case of death from a marijuana overdose. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 80,000 Americans die from excessive alcohol use each year.
2) Marijuana does have medical uses. That's why the California Medical Association recommends the legalization and regulation of cannabis.
3) The war on marijuana is a waste of money. When federal prosecutors go after medical marijuana dispensers, they are using a nuclear weapon to incarcerate people for using or distributing a nonlethal drug.
As Amanda Reiman of the pro-legalization Drug Policy Alliance put it, "prohibiting marijuana, prohibiting dispensaries, doesn't make marijuana go away."

[Thunder_Snus]

Never understood what the issue with weed was. I've tried it a few times and it's definitely not for me but i still see no reason to make it illegal.

When you're under the legal age to buy tobacco and alcohol it's much easier to buy drugs than to buy legal things. When I was 14 I could get someone to sell me weed way easier than I could have gotten a gas station attendant to sell me some skoal apple. Legalize it and all those scummy drug dealers that all the parents are worried about will disappear. They won't be able to compete with big corporate weed prices and will not be able to make a living being a drug dealer anymore.

[lxskllr]

I was at my mother's house a week or so ago, and I saw weed references on a couple shows. It was treated as lightweight fun, and pretty much normal. When did that happen? I don't have a problem with it, but I thought the paradigm shift was interesting.

[truthwolf1]

If you ever voted before Obama in your local church or school you probably noticed a lot of Senior citizens. The WW2 anti-drugs generation is dying off and being replaced by more open minded boomers.

[wa3zrm]

Nurse In Trouble for Prescribing Marijuana to Children

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - A 66-year-old nurse practitioner is in trouble after he prescribed pot to young children. The Washington State Nursing Commission charged Joel Berman with issuing medical marijuana to a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old.

(Excerpt) Read more at kionrightnow.com ...

[lxskllr]

Sounds like politics to me. If he can prescribe medicine, he can prescribe marijuana.

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Nurse In Trouble for Prescribing Marijuana to Children

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - A 66-year-old nurse practitioner is in trouble after he prescribed pot to young children. The Washington State Nursing Commission charged Joel Berman with issuing medical marijuana to a 6-year-old and a 4-year-old.

(Excerpt) Read more at kionrightnow.com ...

I'm guessing he was prescribing it to them in the form of some kind of edible? I highly doubt he prescribed them a bong along with it. If a state is going to say something is medicine then its medicine. Alcohol used to be a medicine prescribed to people. Would they rather he put kids on vicodin or adderall? Same thing except those 2 have never been illegal for strange reasons.

[Crow]

In me bong this morning --

[Crow]

No more of Britannia's sweet cheese..

Now there's..........

[Crow]

500-toker pot party gets OK’d outdoors at Seattle Center

For the first anniversary of legal weed, the city will permit a giant pot party on the site of Seattle Center’s old Fun Forest amusement park.

On the first anniversary of legal weed in Washington state, the city will permit a big pot party on the site of Seattle Center’s old Fun Forest amusement park.

Pot activist Ben Livingston has the contract to prove it, a city document that says “Licensee is permitted to host a private outdoor marijuana smoking area.”

Livingston forked over $1,900, which he got from a local law firm, to use part of the 74-acre Seattle Center for about eight hours on Dec. 6, the anniversary of the day Washington’s recreational pot law took effect.

It’s a free, adults-only event, open to the public, at which Livingston plans to have light music, light catering and outdoor pot smoking by up to 500 people behind a double fence, or smoking “moat,” as the permit says.

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