This past week, the Senate decided to override a line-item veto from Governor John de Jongh of the decriminalization provision for the US Virgin Islands, which had been included in the territory’s 2015 fiscal year budget. Due to this veto, the Islands will no longer prosecute those found to be in possession of one ounce or less of cannabis.
A story grows in Arizona. The state’s legal landscape shifted drastically in 2010, when voters marginally succeeded in legalizing the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (Prop 203, commonly). According to CNN reports at the time, the Arizona ballot measure—to legalize the consumption of medical marijuana—passed with only 50.13 percent of the vote. Prop 203 was effectively the only ballot to eek through the citizens-initiative process. Marijuana, however, was no stranger to the AZ ballot four years ago. In the mid-to-late 1990s, voters twice attempted to pass initiatives.
Many people say marijuana is the most beneficial of all the substances, while others claim it is the most harmful. Regardless that the Journal of Health and Social Behavior found that Marijuana is not a “gateway” drug, that the Global…Read more →
For years there has been a severe amount of whining by uninformed members of the public, and worse abrasive arrests, convictions, and outlandish sentencing in regards to those who choose to consume marijuana. However, in recent years as stronger advocacy…Read more →
