Nepal Lifts Ban On Cannabis For Shivaratri Festival By Toby Rogers In a sharp contrast to Colorado University’s recent ban on 4/20, Nepal lifted a ban on smoking cannabis last weekend for the Shivartri Festival held in the Kathmandu’s Pashupatinath temple. Normally, cannabis is illegal in Nepal, yet the Shivarati Festival, which draws close to [...]
Did Lincoln exempt Kentucky from his historic Proclamation to preserve Union supplies of hemp? January 1st was the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s historic executive order now known as the “Emancipation Proclamation” – which directed the apparatus of the federal government to begin freeing slaves. It was a courageous and longsighted decision, and one which [...]
Last week, Cannabis Now Magazine reported on a CBS poll which showed Americans were evenly for and against marijuana legalization, at 47% each. Then, on December 5, Quinnipiac University released new poll results that tell a different story: that the majority of Americans do support legalization, at 51%. This is the first national poll Quinnipiac [...]
Support for the legalization of marijuana has finally achieved the same levels of opposition to legalization. This latest development in the continuing upward trend for legalization in the U.S. comes out of the results of a CBS poll which shows 47% of Americans think marijuana should be legal while another 47% think it should remain [...]
Nixon’s hand-picked Shafer Commission took nearly two years to release the findings of its exhaustive review of cannabis’s harms and benefits. At the end of one of the most thorough studies ever conducted, the commission’s recommendation, which the DEA was bound by law to respect, was unequivocal. Cannabis, they reported, should be decriminalized. [...]
The newly-elected President Richard Nixon hated marijuana. He saw the drug as indelibly associated with the radical Left and anti-war protesters who hounded him at every turn, and probably believed strongly on a personal level that the best thing to do was to eliminate it. But Nixon found himself in his first year of office [...]
The Marihuana Tax Act remained in force for over thirty years. Anslinger and his FBN used their darling legislation to eliminate all cannabis production – whether recreational, medicinal, or industrial – in the U.S. The specific nature of their plan bears examination. The Tax Stamp Act, consistent with constitutional limits on federal power, did not [...]
Four days from now, oral arguments will begin for an appeal case which could very well result in the end of the federal war on marijuana. The case was brought by Americans for Safe Access last year, after Obama denied an administrative petition to reschedule marijuana in the summer of 2011. Yet one could say [...]
A pedestrians walks past the Little Green Pharmacy medical cannabis dispensary in Denver, Colorado. (Randall Benton/Sacramento Bee/MCT) If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to possess, grow, consume and give away up to an ounce of marijuana. It may take more than a year, however, before [...]
Federal officials from at least three law enforcement agencies raided Oaksterdam University and several other locations owned or affiliated with Prop 19 founder Richard Lee in Oakland this morning. IRS and DEA spokespeople said the search warrant for the raids is under seal, with no time frame for the seal being lifted. They would not [...]
