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Drug Trade Among Whites More Open in NYC?

While police crack down on drug deals in mostly minority neighborhoods, the drug trade among whites in New York City operates with relative impunity, statistics show. In 2009, only 10 percent of the 46,000 people arrested on marijuana-related charges by the New York City Police Department were white, according to a 2010 study — though whites are often among its heaviest drug users.

Missoula Jury Pool Creates Uproar Across Nation After Marijuana 'Mutiny'

A jury pool's action — and the reaction to it — has serious ramifications for continued prosecution of low-level nonviolent drug crimes, not just in Missoula County but around the country. The story "hit a nerve" around the country, said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the national Drug Policy Alliance that advocates drug law reform. "It shows the emperor-has-no-clothes dimension to what happened. It's an expression of what many people feel — that marijuana possession should no longer be illegal," he said.

California NORML Conference -- Marijuana Reform: Next Steps for California

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SAFER: Time to Double Down

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2010 was huge.  2011 will be even bigger...

Thanks to your support SAFER was able to accomplish quite a bit this past year.  Here are just a few of the highlights:

• We started the Women's Marijuana Movement, whose launch and educational activities -- as well as its actions to support California's Prop. 19 -- put women front and center in the public debate surrounding marijuana.

• We expanded the SAFER Campuses Initiative, helping students carry out actions on 80+ college campuses and work to bring about actual policy changes at schools where students have adopted SAFER referendums.

• We continued to build momentum and support for marijuana reform in Colorado, setting the stage for an unprecedented campaign to legalize marijuana statewide in 2012.

With your help we can do even more in the new year.  A generous supporter has offered to match any donations we receive this week, so if you can help SAFER with a tax-deductible end-of-year donation, whatever you give will be DOUBLED!  Just click the button below or visit http://www.SAFERchoice.org/donate and lend us twice the support heading into 2011.

The coming year promises to be our busiest and most important since we got started in 2005.  And with your continued support we can ramp up all of the above projects and have a huge impact on the direction and success of the marijuana reform movement.

Whether it's a one-time donation or a monthly pledge, your contribution will lend tremendously to our work in 2011. Just click on the button above or visit http://www.SAFERchoice.org/donate to make a contribution and have it doubled today.  And if you give $25 or more we will send you your choice of SAFER T-shirt or a copy of Marijuana is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink?

Thank you again for being a part of the SAFER movement and making our work possible.  And from all of us at SAFER, we wish you a safe and happy new year.

Marijuana Activist Declares Bid to Lead B.C. NDP

Longtime marijuana activist Dana Larsen announced his bid for the leadership of the provincial party from the Vancouver office where he dispenses medical marijuana. The 39-year-old is the first candidate to publicly announce his intention to take over the party since Carole James resigned on Dec. 6. James has said she will remain at the helm until an interim leader is chosen in mid-January. Larson, the founding editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine from 1994 to 2004, says he has support from many members of the provincial NDP party, but admits he isn't in the "inner circle."

80-Year-Old Virginia Republican Lawmaker Leads State's Marijuana Decriminalization Fight

80-year-old Republican Delegate Harvey Morgan, also an assistant clinical professor of pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University, is leading the charge to decriminalize marijuana possession. Legislation proposed by Morgan, known as House Bill 1443, would replace the criminal fine for possession with a civil penalty and eliminate the 30-day jail sentence and criminal record that would follow conviction. "In 2007, nearly 18,000 people were arrested in Virginia for simple possession of marijuana...This places a tremendous burden on law enforcement, prisons and the judicial system. In these times of economic hardship, we need to closely examine how our tax dollars are spent," Morgan said.

Momentum Is Building to End the Failed Drug War: Top Stories of 2010 (Opinion)

Tony Newman, communications director for the Drug Policy Alliance, says the debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. He shares what he feels are some of the most significant stories from 2010 and the reasons why he's encouraged that we can start finding an exit strategy from America's longest running war.

Missoula District Court: Jury Pool in Marijuana Case Stages 'Mutiny'

A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court. Jurors – well, potential jurors – staged a revolt. They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they weren’t about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana.
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