Cannabis Hemp News

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Another top expert in the UK has called for drugs to be decriminalised, arguing current tactics have not worked. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/D...alisation_In_UK The thing that gets me is, what's different here? Once again you have someone who's an expert in a field making a strong, rational argument, followed by the same tired old lines from the police and government opposing that view. But you're not reducing drug use!!! The figures show more cannabis is being grown than ever before, meaning demand is higher than ever. You've had decades of a current drug policy to work out how to reduce demand, and all it's done has gone up! Prohibition will nev…

Oh boy, I can feel a rant coming on. http://caivn.org/article/2010/08/10/opposi...abis-act-mounts I just gotta break this down. Starting with the Democrats who oppose the bill. Firstly, Feinstein, who I'm pretty sure has already had many of her remarks debunked, opposed it in part because: "Proposition 19 is simply a jumbled legal nightmare that will make our highways, our workplaces and our communities less safe." See what I mean? But she goes on: " ... the only thing that would be certain is drug use would go up and the state of California would run afoul of federal law and risk losing federal funding." Ahh, so we're starting to get to the real crux of her argume…