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was driven by the Drug War, the U.S. prison population is six to ten times as high as most Western European nations. The United States is a close second only to Russia in its rate of incarceration per 100,000 people. In 2010, more than 746,000 people were arrested in the USA for marijuana-related offenses alone.
On the 6th of November 2012 marijuana was legalized for recreational use in . People over the age of 21 can possess up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational use. At least these people can now carry weed without worrying about the police arresting them.
31st of May 2013 former Mexican president Vincente Fox states that he wants .
10th December 2013 Uruguay becomes the first country to. However tourists will not be able to legally purchase cannabis.
1st January 2014 Colorado became the
which started to sell weed to residents and non residents. In the Netherlands you have been allowed to purchase and smoke cannabis since 1976. Ironically the Dutch have never actually legalized marijuana.
19th January 2014 Another
significant milestone for the legalization of marijuana. President Obama says that
in terms of the impact on the individual consumer.
26th February 2014 A recent poll of residents in Texas show that
and 77% support the legalization of medical marijuana. This is a great sign that the majority of people in the USA think marijuana should be legalized. Texas can be considered one of the most conservative states in the USA.
4th November 2014 . Washington, DC also legalizes marijuana.
4th November 2014 . Alaskans voted 53-47% to end decades of harmful and ineffective marijuana prohibition, and replace it with a system in which marijuana is taxed and regulated like alcohol.
10th March 2015
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey push through a bill to .
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The US war on drugs places great emphasis on arresting people for smoking marijuana. Since 1990, approximately 17 million Americans have been arrested on marijuana charges, a greater number than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined. In 2010, state and local law enforcement arrested 746,000 people for marijuana violations. This is an increase of 800 percent since 1980 and the highest per capita in the world.
As has been the case throughout the 1990s, ;s and continues that the overwhelming majority of those charged with marijuana violations were for simple possession, around 88%. The remaining 12% were for “sale/manufacture”, an FBI category which includes marijuana grown for personal use or purely medical purposes. These new FBI statistics indicate that one marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds in America. Taken together, the total number of marijuana arrests for 2010 far exceeded the combined number of arrests for violent crimes, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
Like most Americans, people who smoke marijuana also pay taxes, love and support their families, and work hard to make a better life for their children. Suddenly they are arrested, jailed and treated like criminals solely because of their recreational drug of choice. State agencies frequently step in and declare children of marijuana smokers to be “in danger”, and many children are placed into foster homes as a result. This causes enormous pain, suffering and financial hardship for millions of American families. It also engenders distrust and disrespect for the law and for the criminal justice system overall.
Responsible marijuana smokers present no threat or danger to America or its children, and there is no reason to treat them as criminals, or to take their children away. As a society we need to find ways to discourage personal conduct of all kinds that is abusive or harmful to others. Responsible marijuana smokers are not the problem and it is time to stop arresting them.
Once all the facts are known, it becomes clear that America’s marijuana laws need reform. This issue must be openly debated using only the facts. Groundless claims, meaningless statistics, and exaggerated scare stories that have been peddled by politicians and prohibitionists for the last 60 years must be rejected.
ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS
TOBACCO …………………… 400,000
ALCOHOL …………………… 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ………….20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ……….15,000
CAFFEINE …………………….2,000
ASPIRIN ………………………500
MARIJUANA …………………. 0
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Source: United States government, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bureau of Mortality Statistics
Like any substance, marijuana can be abused. The most common problem attributed to marijuana is frequent overuse, which can induce lethargic behavior, but does not cause serious health problems. Marijuana can cause short-term memory loss, but only while under the influence. Marijuana does not impair long-term memory. Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs.
Marijuana does not cause brain damage, genetic damage, or damage the immune system. Unlike alcohol, marijuana does not kill brain cells or induce violent behavior
Continuous long-term smoking of marijuana can cause bronchitis, but the chance of contracting bronchitis from casual marijuana smoking is minuscule. Respiratory health hazards can be totally eliminated by consuming marijuana via non-smoking methods, i.e., ingesting marijuana via baked foods, tincture, or vaporizer.
A 1997 UCLA School of Medicine study (Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine) conducted on 243 marijuana smokers over an 8-year period reported the following: “Findings from the long-term study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of chronic lung disease.”
Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in lung function as compared with those individuals who never smoked marijuana.” The study concluded: “No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and non-smoking of marijuana.”
Marijuana does not cause serious health problems like those caused by tobacco or alcohol (e.g., strong addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver damage, etc.). Death from a marijuana overdose is impossible. In all of world history, there has never been a single human death attributed to a health problem caused by marijuana.
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Could Pot Soon Be Legal Just About Everywhere?
Kevin Shameklis looks at marijuana-based products as manager Selena Toomey looks on at the Oregon's Finest medical marijuana dispensary in Portland, Oregon on April 8, 2014.
Photo by Steve Dipaola/Reuters
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the legalization of marijuana is inevitable. We&ll soon find out if they&re right.
Voters in Alaska and possibly Oregon will decide this November whether their states will join Colorado and Washington in legalizing the commercial sale and recreational use of pot. Similar initiatives are at varying stages in more than a half-dozen other states&Nevada, Arizona, and California among them&where advocates are looking toward 2016, when they hope the presidential election will turn out enough liberals to push those efforts across the finish line. All told, more than 1 in 5 Americans live in states where marijuana use has a legitimate chance to become legal between now and when President Obama leaves office.
It&s not just at the ballot box where the pro-pot crowd is putting points on the board. Lawmakers in at least 40 states have eased at least some drug laws since 2009, according to a . According to the , proposals to treat pot like alcohol have been introduced in 18 states and the District of Columbia this year alone. Meanwhile, 16 states have already decriminalized marijuana, according to the pro-pot group NORML&Maryland will become the 17th in October. In large swaths of the country getting caught with a small amount of weed at a concert is now roughly the same as getting a speeding ticket on the way to the show. While not leading the charge, the Obama administration is allowing states the chance to experiment. The feds have given a qualified greenlight to Colorado and Washington to dabble in recreational weed, and have even taken small steps to encourage banks to do business with those companies involved in the quasi-legal pot trade.
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Given this momentum, it&s not difficult to see why 75 percent of Americans&including a majority of both those who support and those who oppose legalization&told Pew pollsters in February that they now believe it&s a matter of when, not if, the nation&s eight-decade-long prohibition of pot ends. The question is: Are they right?
It wasn’t until 2013 that a majority of Americans said that they supported making it legal to use weed.
This moment isn&t the first time that the United States appeared on the cusp of legalization. After steep gains in popular support during the early and mid-&70s, support for legalization climbed to 30 percent in 1978, only to plummet back into the teens the following decade as Baby Boomers became parents and Jimmy Carter&s pro-decriminalization administration gave way to Ronald Reagan&s war on drugs. &This was supposed to be inevitable then,& says Kevin Sabet, a legalization opponent and former Obama drug policy adviser who helped found Smart Approaches to Marijuana after leaving the administration. &No one could have predicted that [support] would have been wiped away so quickly.&
The pro-pot crowd isn&t ready to declare victory either. Ethan Nadelmann, who heads the Drug Policy Alliance and has spent decades in the reform trenches, says he&s of two minds when he thinks about the future. &On the one hand we have this extraordinary momentum,& he says. &On the other, public opinion can be fickle and marijuana is not going to legalize itself.&
While such caution is reasonable, it&s obvious that things are different now than they were 40 years ago, when then-record levels of support for legalization were good for little more than a vocal minority. It wasn&t until 2013 that a majority of Americans said for the first time that they supported making it legal to use weed. Support now stands at 54 percent in the most recent Pew poll, 23 points above where the legalization effort stood as recently as 2000 and 13 points higher than in 2010. Even those fickle Baby Boomers are back on board, with 52 percent now in favor&5 points more than that generation&s 1970s-era high. Meanwhile, each passing year brings us an electorate more familiar and less fearful of marijuana.
It&s not just a matter of shifting demographics. There&s also the fact that voters have increasingly gotten an up-close look at state-legal weed in the form of medical marijuana. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia have legalized pot for medicinal purposes to varying degrees since California became the first to do so almost two decades ago. Voters in Florida are set to decide later this year whether they want to join that group, something that would give advocates their first voter-referendum victory in the South. (Florida law requires at least 60 percent support, however, making it a heavier lift than it has been in other states.)
Some pot opponents warn that medical marijuana serves as a Trojan Horse for the larger legalization movement, but that argument relies on Americans believing that the dangers of possibly legalizing recreational weed tomorrow outweigh the benefits of actually prescribing it to cancer patients and others in need today&a viewpoint shared by a diminishing number of Americans. While 54 percent of respondents told Pew they thought &the use of marijuana& should be made legal, things were more complicated
to one where people were asked to pick between three choices: 39 percent said that pot &should be legal for personal use&; 44 percent said it &should be legal only for medicinal use&; and 16 percent said it &should not be legal.& Still, the answers to the original question&&Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?&&suggests in an all-or-nothing environment, most Americans choose the former.
Regardless, medical marijuana has already served as stepping-stone for states that have or are considering regulating the sale and use of recreational pot. In Colorado, where retail stores opened their doors on New Year&s Day, advocates were able to point to the state&s tightly regulated medical market, approved by voters in 2000, to allay fears that the state couldn&t regulate a marijuana market from scratch. To date, Colorado regulators have delivered on those promises, building a relatively hiccup-free commercial market on the back of the medical marijuana industry. (Things in Washington, where the medical market is unregulated, have proved a good deal more complicated. Residents are still waiting for the first retail stores to open 19 months since the 2012 vote.)
Medical marijuana has become so relatively uncontroversial that late last month the House of Representatives shocked almost everyone when a bipartisan majority voted to block the Drug Enforcement Agency from pursuing medical marijuana operations that are legal under state laws. &Watershed is probably too strong of a word,& says Nadelmann of the unexpected vote for a bill that had repeatedly stalled in the same chamber for the last decade, &but it was pretty close.&
Legalization in theory is different than legalization in practice, and an unforeseen disaster in Colorado or Washington& or the next time a &could always affect public opinion. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who opposed his state&s 2012 legalization initiative, for one, has warned his fellow governors to take a wait-and-see approach to their own state&s legalization efforts. But it&s looking increasingly like the voters may not be so patient if given the choice.
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