Recreational marijuana use was legalized by Colorado and Washington voters in constitutional amendments Tuesday, but the NBA and NFL, which has teams in those states, voiced the same sentiment as anti-pot Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who warned people not to "break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.''
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told USA TODAY Sports that though Colorado's Amendment 64 and Washington's similar measure allow individuals to possess up to one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six plants in there homes, "Marijuana remains prohibited under the NFL substance abuse program.''
Moments after President Barack Obama was declared elected Tuesday night, the crowd at Seattle’s downtown Hotel Andra went wild with news that Washington state was joining Colorado in declaring pot legal.
“It is time for a new approach,” said Alison Holcomb, campaign director of the coalition that had pushed the measure, as the room whooped in celebration.
History had been made.
“Even the most difficult things in life are not impossible,” Holcomb added to cheers.
The campaign in this state grew out of an initiative by the local bar association and like a snowball rolling downhill, gathered broad establishment support.
The governors of the states of Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa [both on the border with the U.S. and centers of much drug traffic related violence] spoke out for analyzing the anti-drug strategy, which has cost thousands of lives in Mexico and produced high levels of violence, while in the United States approval for regulating the consumption of marijuana has increased.
Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, governor of Nuevo Leon, was in favor of examining the combating of drug trafficking and possible regulation, legalization or developing a registry of cannabis consumers.
"We have to carry out a serious reflection of the strategy to combat drugs, because so far no one has been able to say that with this strategy we will eradicate drugs," said Medina to CNNMéxico. Read more »
Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday in defiance of federal law, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the Obama administration.
But another ballot measure to remove criminal penalties for personal possession and cultivation of recreational cannabis was defeated in Oregon, where significantly less money and campaign organization was devoted to the cause.
If there's one thing that can get the nation's pot smokers motivated it's the legalization of marijuana.
After two U.S. states okayed pot for recreational use in ballot initiatives on Tuesday, activists in this country renewed their call to legalize it in Canada.
"This is monumental. I finally feel like we're beginning to see the end of the war on cannabis around the world," cannabis crusader Dana Larsen, a founding member of the Canadian Marijuana Party and the B.C. Marijuana Party, told QMI Agency Wednesday.
But just as Colorado and Washington loosened up, Canada tightened its drug laws.
Marijuana users and activists celebrated the drug's legalisation in Colorado and Washington as landmark victories on Wednesday but uncertainty over the federal government's response tempered jubilation.
Voters in both states on Tuesday approved amendments legalising the recreational use of marijuana, historic decisions that reflect growing disenchantment across the US with the decades-old "war on drugs".
A coalition of pot shop dispensaries, civil rights advocates and former law enforcers argued that legalisation would hit drug cartels' profits, boost state tax revenues and reduce the mass incarceration of African Americans and Latinos.
If you grow six marijuana plants, prepare to spend six months in the slammer.
Canada’s drug prohibition laws got tougher as a component of Bill C-10 came into effect Tuesday, legislation B.C. MLA and former police chief Kash Heed dubbed “ridiculous” when it comes to marijuana.
The bill imposes harsher penalties and mandatory jail time for drug offenders who participate in organized crime, sell drugs to or near youth, and produce drugs where they could be a safety hazard to youth or residents.
Pot advocates in B.C. say now that voters in Washington have passed a law to legalize possession of marijuana, it is time for a similar referendum here.
On Tuesday 55 per cent of voters in Washington State approved Initiative 502, legalizing the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by anyone over the age of 21.
The initiative also taxes and regulates the production and sale of cannabis, and makes it illegal to drive while under its influence.
A similar initiative was also approved by voters in Colorado, but one in Oregon was rejected by voters on Tuesday.
Election Day is a time for indulging weird, wild, and unlikely scenarios of what could play out and how—because there’s nothing else to do while we wait for real numbers to come in. With that in mind, here’s a fun, not entirely implausible scenario in which marijuana could decide the presidential election.
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Recreational marijuana use was legalized by Colorado and Washington voters in constitutional amendments Tuesday, but the NBA and NFL, which has teams in those states, voiced the same sentiment as anti-pot Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who warned people not to "break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.''
Moments after President Barack Obama was declared elected Tuesday night, the crowd at Seattle’s downtown Hotel Andra went wild with news that Washington state was joining Colorado in declaring pot legal.
The governors of the states of Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa [both on the border with the U.S. and centers of much drug traffic related violence] spoke out for analyzing the anti-drug strategy, which has cost thousands of lives in Mexico and produced high levels of violence, while in the United States approval for regulating the consumption of marijuana has increased.
If there's one thing that can get the nation's pot smokers motivated it's the legalization of marijuana.
Marijuana users and activists celebrated the drug's legalisation in Colorado and Washington as landmark victories on Wednesday but uncertainty over the federal government's response tempered jubilation.
If you grow six marijuana plants, prepare to spend six months in the slammer.
Pot advocates in B.C. say now that voters in Washington have passed a law to legalize possession of marijuana, it is time for a similar referendum here.
Election Day is a time for indulging weird, wild, and unlikely scenarios of what could play out and how—because there’s nothing else to do while we wait for real numbers to come in. With that in mind, here’s a fun, not entirely implausible scenario in which marijuana could decide the presidential election.
