The legalization of marijuana for both medicinal and recreational purposes has crossed political lines. ‘Republican voters’ (among many other individuals) are now making it very clear that they have had enough of the Feds tinkering with state marijuana laws.
If police have been conducting shake-downs in their ‘drug war’ simply by going after the smell of marijuana, they will soon have difficulty upholding that action in a court of law – at least in Arizona. A judge there just ruled that police can no longer use the aroma of marijuana as ‘probable cause.’
That’s right, simply the smell of ‘Mary Jane’ is no longer sufficient reason for police to initiate a raid.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office recently raided medical marijuana programs of two tribal authorities in Northern California, which according a press release from the Leaders of Alturas Rancheria, is completely legal. Needless to say, the Tribal Authorities are quite upset about the event. The operations were owned by the Alturas Indian Rancheria and the Pit River Tribe.
Just over a year after Colorado started selling marijuana in licensed dispensaries, they are seeing more customers than ever, but according to Nicholas Colas and his team at Convergex, a global brokerage company based in New York, Colorado citizens aren’t paying as much for their marijuana nowadays.
After interviewing several stores in Colorado, Colas found that prices are declining faster than some anticipated. Is there too much supply and not enough demand, or are there other factors at play here?
Is marijuana legalization throughout the US about to actually happen? It seems with the action on Capitol Hill lately, that the war on the vilified plant is about to finally cease.
Several Illinois youths considered ‘at risk’ could be looking at a new career in the medical marijuana industry due to a generous donation to the city of Bloomington by Curative Health, Inc. – a medical marijuana corporation based in New York.
In case you’re wondering here is what ‘at-risk’ youth means:
What would you do if your child had a serious form of epilepsy that was resistant to treatment by conventional methods? If a form of liquid cannabis was available that had proven results for reducing your child’s debilitating and painful seizures by 53%, wouldn’t you obtain that medicine by whatever means possible? Here’s the only problem – it still isn’t legal in many states.
Kraft Foods and snack food giant Mondelez Global have been accused of manipulating the price of wheat futures in 2011 to reap $5.4 million in unlawful profits by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Perhaps the making of noxious foods that cause disease in children, as well as in the general public, just isn’t so profitable anymore.
It is time for some outdated, unconstitutional laws to be scrapped. Informally sharing seed with a neighbor who gardens down the street is illegal in multiple states in the US. The penalty for violating this ridiculous law is a fine of up to $7,500 a day. Like so many other senseless laws, this rule needs to be put to rest.
You can’t even give away seeds to someone in your own neighborhood under certain laws. For example, in some states you need to buy an annual permit and submit each lot of seeds for germination testing; if you don’t, you are defying the law.
It looks like Obama might be addressing the question of federal pot reform – FINALLY – after skirting the issue practically since his inauguration.
