rawstory.com - 10/26/2009
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George Will: US ‘probably in the process’ of legalizing marijuana
gallup.com - 10/19/2009
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's October Crime poll finds
44% of Americans in favor of making marijuana legal...
and 54% opposed. U.S. public support for legalizing marijuana was fixed in the 25% range from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but acceptance jumped ...
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U.S. Support for Legalizing Marijuana Reaches New High
abcnews.go.com - 10/26/2009
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Winds of Change
HorsesAss.Org —
Raw Story reports on a discussion about legalizing marijuana that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein: Huh? Conservatives Get Compassionate on White House, Dog Poop & Pot-Smoking
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Marijuana is back on the national radar and interestingly enough, conservatives aren't totally against its legalization. If conservative nut George Will - who has apparently worn jeans once in his life, so is clearly a dirty hippie - thinks we should legalize weed to stop the violence in Mexico, are we headed to a massive legalization of all drugs, including harder ones? Isn't it conservative politics to allow people to do what they want and smoke what they want? And what does modern transparency through technology have to do with this change of heart? ...
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openleft.com 2/20/2009 — Two recent polls show that legalizing marijuana, which is not treated as a mainstream position by either the political or media establishment, to be more popular than numerous other positions that are considered mainstream. First, here are the polls: ...
On the governor's talk of legalizing marijuana
sfgate.com 5/9/2009 — The subject is neither unfamiliar nor taboo in California. Medical marijuana has been available - some would say too easily - for over a decade. Pot is judged to be one of the state's biggest cash crops, and open use hasn't invited arrest for years. ...
Sanity on Marijuana?
reason.com 10/22/2009 —
Obama's new position on medical marijuana is a step in the right direction.
Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense
time.com 4/2/2009 — For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately ...
A visit to the medical marijuana doctor
latimes.com 10/28/2009 — Steve Lopez An employee of Green Oasis, a medical marijuana dispensary in L.A., holds a bud from a variety called Blue Goo before weighing it for a customer. ( Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times )
A Step Toward Sanity on Medical Marijuana
volokh.com 10/20/2009 — The AP reports that the Justice Department will issue a memo formally establishing a new policy regarding the federal prosecution of marijuana possession and sale in states that have decriminalized medical marijuana.
The Obama administration will ...
Obama Administrations Announces Change in Marijuana Policy
liberalvaluesblog.com 10/19/2009 — AP reports on a change in policy with regards to medicinal marijuana from the Obama administration. This comes in response to the policy under George Bush to ignore state laws, again demonstrating that many Republicans are only concerned about states’ rights when it suits their policies. ...
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