Randy Warburton is working to decriminalize marijuana for those age 21 and older, and he’s doing it for his grandkids.
Warburton said at least two of them will probably use marijuana, and he’d like them to be able to access it safely.
Warburton is one of six coordinators across the state working to get an initiative on the November ballot that would create a constitutional amendment allowing adults 21 and older to use the substance. Wednesday, he and volunteers stood outside the Community Food Co-op, soliciting signatures from shoppers. Read more »
WASHINGTON -- The White House has rejected several marijuana legalization petitions, one of which called on the federal government to stop interfering with state marijuana legalization efforts.
"As a former police chief, I recognize we are not going to arrest our way out of the problem," wrote Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in a statement released late on Friday. "We also recognize that legalizing marijuana would not provide the answer to any of the health, social, youth education, criminal justice, and community quality of life challenges associated with drug use." Read more »
This week, across Canada, experts are speaking out against the massive, cruel Crime Bill that our Conservative government is rushing through Parliament.1 Even conservative Texans are warning Canada not to follow America’s failed path of mandatory sentences and massive prison expansion.2
Now, we need a huge public outcry to stop the bill, and make Canada safer, not meaner.
Experts agree that the Crime Bill would make Canada a more dangerous place by filling new prisons with people who should not be there. Instead, experience shows that we should focus on proven strategies to prevent crime, rehabilitate people and reintegrate them into society.1,3 The stakes are huge: if this bill passes we’ll be spending billions to trap people and create a permanent underclass of Canadians with little hope for a better life.4Read more »
VANCOUVER — Friends and supporters of Canada's so-called "prince of pot" are using one of U.S. President Barack Obama's democracy outreach projects to get the president to weigh in on Marc Emery's stay in a U.S. prison.
Under Obama's newly launched "We The People" program, anyone who can gather 5,000 names on a petition will receive a formal response.
In Emery's case, the petition-signing effort took just nine days, and the marijuana advocate's supporters now expect a presidential response within 30 days.
The Vancouver man was extradited to the U.S. in May 2010 to begin his sentence for selling marijuana seeds to Americans through his mail-order business.
"Marc is a political prisoner stolen from his home country for the crime of financing cannabis activism in the U.S.A. and Canada through selling seeds," said Emery's wife Jodie. Read more »
When the White House announced “We the People,” an online system for petitioning the government, they no doubt hoped it would become a high-minded way for citizens to interact with their political leaders.
And so, now that the system is live, how’s that working?
More than 77,000 people have signed petitions urging the Obama administration to legalize marijuana.
“Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol?” asks the top petition on the White House Web site. “If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?”
A half-dozen pot-related petitions are among the 64 that have been filed on the site so far. Read more »
A Willie Nelson concert would seem like a prime venue to collect signatures to legalize marijuana in Nebraska, because of the country singer's well-known support of marijuana.
But Nebraska State Fair officials have said no to allowing pot petitioning on the fairgrounds in Grand Island.
Instead, members of the Nebraska Cannabis Coalition will attempt to collect signatures on public sidewalks outside the fairgrounds.
Nebraska State Fair Executive Director Joseph McDermott said fair policy treats petition circulators the same as vendors who want to sell products or services.
"That type of activity needs to take place within a leased space — in other words, a booth," he said.
McDermott said the fair was sold out of both indoor and outdoor booth space by the time the group approached the fair earlier this month.
State Sen. Paul Schumacher of Columbus, an attorney and leader of a past initiative effort to legalize video slot machines, said he doubted the legality of barring petition circulators from the fairgrounds. Read more »
The former clients of a Langley medical marijuana dispensary raided by RCMP last month are organizing a petition and campaign to have it re-opened.
“People should be able to access medicine that has been prescribed by their doctor,” said Dan Mackle, who was the first client of the dispensary, which ran for about 11 months in Langley City on Fraser Highway.
Randy Caine, the local business owner who opened and operated the dispensary, was licensed by Health Canada to supply marijuana to three clients, but had about 150 active members when it was raided in July.
Police seized pot and baked goods along with some cash.
Now Mackle and others from among the former clients are seeking names on a petition asking Langley City to allow a dispensary to re-open as an official pilot project. Read more »
A group that wants to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio has turned over of a petition full of signatures for what they say is their first step toward putting the idea before voters in November 2012.
The proposed "Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment" would amend the state constitution to allow caregivers to give patients with qualifying ailments up to 3.5 ounces in pot .
Backers of the measure last week submitted a petition that summarized that amendment with 2,143 signatures to Attorney General Mike DeWine.
Secretary of State Jon Husted, Ohio's top elections official, said the next step in the process is validating 1,000 signatures and passing the language of the petition in a review process. If the proposal makes it through the review process, its supporters will need to collect at least another 385,245 valid signatures to win the amendment a spot on the ballot next year.
"We're hoping the ballot will force our legislators to stand up and do what's right," said Tonya Davis, 48, a Dayton resident and member of a committee that delivered the first batch of signatures to DeWine. Read more »
A bold petition is shaping up in California, spearheaded by a group of renowned activists who support recreational use of cannabis. Their challenge is to acquire a whopping 504,706 signatures by December 19. Accomplishing this will allow their Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative to be placed on the June or November ballots in 2012.
Proponents compare marijuana prohibition to alcohol prohibition, and hope to see them meet the same ultimate demise. Prominent activist and former candidate for Governor, Steve Kubby, touts the economical boon California could receive with legalization. He points out that the plan will impose “a sales tax on the biggest crop in the state.” Read more »
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Randy Warburton is working to decriminalize marijuana for those age 21 and older, and he’s doing it for his grandkids.
WASHINGTON -- The White House has rejected several marijuana legalization petitions, one of which called on the federal government to stop interfering with state marijuana legalization efforts.
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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
By Matthew Claxton, Langley Advance
By. WLWT.com
A bold petition is shaping up in California, spearheaded by a group of renowned activists who support recreational use of cannabis. Their challenge is to acquire a whopping 504,706 signatures by December 19. Accomplishing this will allow their Regulate Marijuana Like Wine initiative to be placed on the June or November ballots in 2012.
