Marijuana

Activism Freed One Marijuana Lifer, But Others Need Our Help

December 26, 2015 Tony Newman, www.alternet.org Create! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Drug War, Marijuana

By Tony Newman for Drug Policy Alliance - More than 1,500 folks from 71 countries met in the DC Metro area last month at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference to come up with an exit strategy from the unwinnable war on drugs. The gathering left people inspired and energized. One of the people who attended the conference was Jeff Mizanskey. Jeff was just released from prison a couple of months ago after serving 22 years behind bars. Jeff was serving a life sentence for marijuana. The draconian sentence was because of Missouri’s three strikes laws.

Marijuana Movement Agrees On Legalization Initiative In California

December 22, 2015 Phillip Smith, www.mediamatters.org Create! California, Marijuana

By Phillip Smith for AlterNet - After several years of jostling since the defeat of Proposition 19 in 2010, the smoke has cleared in California and it now appears that a single, well-funded marijuana legalization initiative will go before the voters next November. That vehicle is the California Control, Tax, and Regulate Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), backed by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Sean Parker, WeedMaps head Justin Hartfield, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), and a growing cast of state and national players.

Medical Marijuana Patients To DEA Chief: Pot Is No ‘Joke’

November 23, 2015 RuMellen, www.huffingtonpost.com Create! Marijuana, Virginia

By Ruby Mellen for The HUffington Post - WASHINGTON -- Medical marijuana patients and advocates on Friday delivered a petition to Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, calling for the firing of DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg for his characterization that using the drug as medicine was "a joke." The petition, signed by more than 100,000 people, calls on President Barack Obama to oust Rosenberg and appoint a new DEA head "who will respect science, medicine, patients and voters."

Mexico Supreme Court: Consuming Marijuana A Fundamental Right

November 9, 2015 Dartagnan, www.dailykos.com Resist! Marijuana, Mexico

By Dartagnan for Daily Kos - On November 4th, 2015 the country which has arguably suffered most horrifically from the American policy failure known as the "War on Drugs" took a major step towards legalization of marijuana. The implications of Wednesday's decision by the Mexican Supreme Court will soon be reverberating in Washington and may even impact the 2016 Presidential election. The Mexican Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing marijuana on Wednesday, delivering a pointed challenge to the nation’s strict substance abuse laws and adding its weight to the growing debate in Latin America over the costs and consequences of the war against drugs.

Zeese: The War On The War On Drugs

October 31, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Anti-War, Legal System, Marijuana, War On Drugs

By Eleanor Goldfield of Act Out for Occupy.com - The interview examines howending the drug war, especially the war on marijuana, has moved from being a third rail politicial issue to having widespread mainstream support. The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and three other states with more on the horizon is not showing any serious problems and is bringing in millions of dollars in new taxes while savings millions on law enforcement. Zeese explains how the most powerful way to deal with drug abuse is not laws that make them illegal, which have all sorts of unexpected consequences, but cultural controls where people learn what is appropriate and inappropriate drug use. These cultural controls are actually undermined by the war on drugs. Zeese also explains how the drug war is linked to other issues in that (1) we are seeking justice on a wide range of issus including police violence, fair and living wages, climate justice, housing justice and the like; and (2) progress toward justice is blocked by a power structure that puts profits ahead of the necessities of the people and the protection of the planet. He urges us to understand the links between these issue so that we can build a bigger social movement for economic, racial and enviornmental justice.

Poll: Majority Of Voters Back Ohio Marijuana Initiative

October 16, 2015 Paul Armentano, www.blog.norml.org Create! Marijuana

By Paul Armentano for NORML, Fifty-six percent of registered Ohio voters say that they will vote ‘yes’ this November on Issue 3, the Marijuana Legalization Amendment, according to newly released WKYC/Kent State Polling data. Sixty-seven percent of registered Democrats and 50 percent of Independents told pollsters that they endorse the measure. Sixty-five percent of Republicans oppose it. Only ten percent of voters remain undecided on the issue. The WKYC/Kent State poll possesses a +/- 4 percent margin of error. The measure would initially establish 10 state-licensed commercial growing sites and commercially produced cannabis would be sold at over 1,000 proposed retail dispensaries.

ReformCA Files Its California Pot Legalization Initiative

October 6, 2015 Phillip Smith, www.alternet.org Create! California, Marijuana

By Phillip Smith for Alternet - The California Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, also known as ReformCA, has filed a draft marijuana legalization initiative initiative with state officials, the group announced Sunday. The long-anticipated move means the campaign best-placed to bring legalization to the Golden State can finally get underway. The Control, Regulate and Tax Cannabis Act of 2016 would allow people 21 and over to possess and cultivate limited amounts of marijuana and it would set up legal marijuana commerce overseen by a pair of new state agencies, the California Cannabis Commission and the Office of Cannabis Regulatory Affairs. "We believe this effort has the most statewide input and consensus, and thus the greatest likelihood of succeeding on the 2016 ballot," ReformCA said.

California Marijuana Legalization Initiative About To Be Filed

October 1, 2015 Phillip Smith, www.alternet.org Resist! Law, Marijuana

By Phillip Smith for Alternet - The long-awaited pot legalization initiative from the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, also known asReformCA, is about to be filed with state officials. Backers of the initiative told the LA Weekly Tuesday that language for circulation will be filed with the attorney general's office in a matter of "days." There are a handful of legalization initiatives already filed and some already approved for signature gathering, but there is little sign that any of them have the financial and organizational resources to actually make the ballot. It takes some 365,000 valid voter signatures to qualify, a number that virtually demands paid signature gatherers at a cost that could run a million dollars or more. The ReformCA campaign, on the other hand, has the backing of both powerful and deep-pocketed national groups as the Drug Policy Alliance and theMarijuana Policy Project, as well as major state drug reform, civil rights, and labor groups, including the California NAACP and the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Tale Of Two Movements: Marriage Equality & Marijuana Legalization

September 21, 2015 Hilary Bricken, www.abovethelaw.com Strategize! Law, Marijuana, Marriage Equality

By Hilary Bricken in Above The Law - Marijuana legalization is often compared to the repeal of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s. Many see marijuana following the same trajectory as alcohol, where the states, just as they did with alcohol, start with medical regimes and one-by-one create a patchwork of state-based marijuana regulations leading up to recreational use. Once states saw the significant tax collections that alcohol generated, they decided that regulating and taxing alcohol was superior to the chaos of prohibition. The repeal of the prohibition on alcohol culminated in the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which ultimately delegated control over alcohol regulation and taxation to the states. Though marijuana could certainly wind up taking the same path as alcohol on the federal level, it might also go the way of same-sex marriages, especially since legalization of same-sex marriage just happened and the downfall of alcohol prohibition was over 80 years ago.

War Veteran With PTSD Faces Life In Prison For Pot

July 5, 2015 Barry Donegan, truthinmedia.com Resist! Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, PTSD, Veterans

By Barry Donegan for TruthInMedia. US Marine Corps combat veteran Kristoffer Lewandowski, who served in three tours of duty overseas including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, reportedly faces up to life in prison for pot charges connected to a June 2014 raid on his Geronimo, OK home that occurred after his wife and neighbors called police to get him help for a post-traumatic stress disorder flare-up. However, rather than providing mental health resources, police responding on the scene searched Lewandowski’s home for contraband and found six marijuana plants, weighing in at less than an ounce of plant matter in total, and charged him with, among other offenses, felony marijuana cultivation, which, under Oklahoma’s unusually-harsh marijuana laws, carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Truth in Media obtained an exclusive interview with Kristoffer Lewandowski’s wife Whitney Lewandowski in an effort to get their family’s story on the record.

Marijuana: Race & Class, Decriminalization Does Not End The Work

July 4, 2015 Chris S Duvall, www.theconversation.com Educate! Decriminalization, Marijuana, Poverty, War On Drugs

By Chris S Duvall in The Conversation - Massachusetts just opened its first marijuana dispensary, with many applauding the move. And as more and more states decriminalize the drug, polls show that most Americans believe that the costs of marijuana prohibition outweigh its benefits. There are surely social benefits to legalization. For one, fewer marijuana-related arrests should slow spending on the war on drugs, which has been astronomically expensive and unsuccessful. And fewer arrests should benefit minority communities that have experienced racially biased drug-law enforcement. Blacks, for instance, face nearly four times the rate of marijuana arrests as whites, despite similar rates of marijuana use and overall drug use between the two racial groups. However, even after decriminalization in some states, racial disparities in arrest rates have persisted, though the total number of arrests has dropped.

NYPD Considers Amnesty For 1.2 Million, Arrested Too Many

May 26, 2015 Jackson Marciana, www.countercurrentnews.com Educate! Marijuana, Mass Incarceration, NYPD, Police the Police, Racial Justice

The New York Police Department is being forced to acknowledge they have arrested far too many people for victimless crimes. Now, the department admits they will have to do something about it. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has publicly accepted the fact that “millions” have been convicted of crimes that they should never have been jailed for. The new controversial proposal suggests the City of New York grant amnesty to over 1 million citizens who have open warrants for low-level, clearly victimless offenses. The prison industry warns that this will “cause crime to skyrocket,” but what they seem more worried about is the bottom line for their for-profit, tax-payer-funded prison schemes.

Marijuana Activists Are Chaining Themselves To ‘Liberty Pole’

April 21, 2015 Perry Stein, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! D.C., Marijuana, Statehood, Washington, Washington D.C.

At the very deliberate time of 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, dozens of D.C. marijuana activists arrived at the Mall. They put on some music, constructed a 42-foot “liberty pole,” and chained themselves to it. “Chained to this pole, I feel more free than I have in my memory,” said protester David Keniston. “We are living democracy right now.” Led by the DC Cannabis Campaign, the organization that spearheaded efforts to legalize marijuana in the city, the nearly week-long vigil in which city activists decry congressional meddling into local D.C. affairs began Wednesday. The activists decided to start the around-the-clock protest on April 15, Tax Day, because, as the city’s license plates say, the District has “taxation without representation.”

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