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Amsterdam won't enforce coffee shop tourist ban-mayor By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM | Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:52am EST (Reuters) - Amsterdam police will turn a blind eye to foreigners buying cannabis in its famous "coffee shops" when a national ban comes into force next year, the city's mayor said on Wednesday. The mayor's comments put an end to months of uncertainty over a ban on foreign visitors purchasing cannabis at the shops that was introduced this year by a Dutch national government coalition which has since collapsed. "It has been decided that Amsterdam law enforcement authorities will not attach any priority to enforcing the local residence requirem…

Jimmy Carter: Marijuana Legalization Is Smart, Imprisonment For Possession Is Out Of Control The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 12/12/2012 9:25 am EST | Updated: 12/12/2012 12:49 pm EST Former President Jimmy Carter gave a full-throated endorsement of state efforts to legalize marijuana during an appearance at a CNN forum aired on Tuesday. Carter, who as president supported an era of marijuana decriminalization in the mid-1970s, told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that he was "in favor" of states that were taking steps to legalize the drug. "I think it’s OK,” Carter said. “I don’t think it’s going to happen in Georgia yet, but I think we can watch and see w…

The First Ever Investor-Grade Analysis of the Medical Marijuana Markets Posted on 23. Mar, 2011 by Kris Lotlikar in Insight WASHINGTON, D.C.– Medical marijuana is now a $1.7 billion market, according to a new report released today by See Change Strategy LLC, an independent financial analysis firm that specializes in new and unique markets. To put that number in perspective, it will soon rival the annual sales of Viagra. The report draws on more than 300 survey responses and dozens of interviews with market participants and resulted in the following findings: 24.8 million people are eligible to receive a recommendation and purchase marijuana legally under st…

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:54 PM Marijuana as medicine? http://www.wilsontimes.com/assets/8970858/16036117_dioStoryImage.jpg Click image to enlarge http://www.wilsontimes.com/images/dio/arrows/nextPhoto.gif 1 of 2 http://www.wilsontimes.com/images/dio/arrows/prevPhoto.gif N.C. may consider legislation as national debate simmers By Corey Friedman | Times Online Editor John Cameron hasn’t been the same since sheriff’s deputies took his marijuana away. “I’ve lost seven pounds in seven days,” the 71-year-old Cameron said. “I have leg cramps, and my vision is starting to deteriorate a little bit.” Cameron, a pancreatic cancer survivor, said he uses marijua…

Miracle Marijuana? 4 Instances Where Pot May Have Helped Cure Disease From tumors to seizure to hate, the healing powers of marijuana are gaining acceptance in the medical community. December 12, 2012 | http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/shutterstock_56056060.jpg Now that marijuana has been legalized in Colorado and Washington state, a growing number of doctors and patients are paying attention to stories of medical marijuana being used to help in the treatment of everything from tumors to seizures. There is no conclusive research, but these anecdotal examples open up a host of possibities that can and …

The Unbiased Voice of the People: Marijuana and States Rights Posted: 11th December 2012 by bjdavis in Marijuana 2 http://liberty91.blog.com/files/2012/12/tumblr_mczaygWHNB1rk0d3mo1_5001-200x300.jpg Marijuana legalization is a state’s rights issue. Federal resistance to state-lead marijuana policy reform is an affront to the Tenth Amendment’s assertion that states have the right to decide their own laws outside of the Constitutionally granted powers given to Congress. So often you hear the arguments about the morality or economic analysis of marijuana legalization. You hear talk of drugs falling into the hands of children or supporting cartels and terrorists…

Americans Want Federal Gov't Out of State Marijuana Laws Overall support for legalizing marijuana use is split December 10, 2012 by Frank Newport PRINCETON, NJ -- Sixty-four percent of Americans are against the federal government's taking steps to enforce federal anti-marijuana laws in states where marijuana is legal. Americans who personally believe that marijuana should be legal overwhelmingly say the federal government should not get involved at the state level, along with four in 10 of those who are opposed to legalized marijuana. http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/jf2aokthkuidfz1wt-hi-g.gif …

Joe Biden Will Ensure Obama Administration's Tough Drug War Stance: Former White House Official The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 12/11/2012 6:31 pm EST | Updated: 12/11/2012 8:42 pm EST ticism over the United States' role in the war on drugs is increasingly making its way into mainstream discussion. As prominent officials such as former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter come out and publicly concede that the policies they followed to bolster a broad system based on drug enforcement and prohibition didn't work, drug policy reformers are clamoring to know why President Barack Obama is continuing to neglect the lessons of the past and present. Bu…

Smugglers Are Literally Shooting Drugs Out Cannons Towards the US UMA, Ariz. (AP) -- U.S. Border Patrol agents say smugglers have come up with yet another creative way to get drugs in the country - a cannon. Authorities say 33 cans of marijuana were spotted Friday in a field near where the Colorado River crosses the U.S.-Mexico border. They believe the cans were launched about 500 feet into the U.S. using a pneumatic-powered cannon. After searching the area, agents recovered a carbon dioxide tank. Mexican authorities were also notified and searched their side of the border. The 85 pounds of marijuana found in the cans had an estimated value of $42,500. Authorities say B…