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Another Poll Confirms Emerging Marijuana Majority
They just keep on coming -- polls showing a majority nationwide in favor of marijuana legalization. The latest is from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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Chronicle AM -- January 27, 2014
Florida's medical marijuana initiative will go to the voters in November, the DEA administrator is being both jeered and cheered for her criticism of President Obama's remarks on marijuana, the Supreme Court makes it harder to punish drug dealers for deaths related to their wares, and much more.
DEA administrator Michele Leonhart (doj.gov)
DEA Chief Criticizes Obama Marijuana Remarks, But Faces Backlash
DEA head Michele Leonhart didn't like what President Obama had to say about marijuana recently. But we don't like what she had to say either.
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Chronicle AM -- January 24, 2014
Bills are popping at state houses across the land, pot politics continues hot and heavy, world leaders have harsh words for prohibition at Davos, and much, much more.
Attorney General Eric Holder (usdoj.gov)
Holder Says Marijuana Banking Rules Coming Soon
A solution to the legal marijuana industry's banking woes is coming soon, Attorney General Holder suggested Thursday. But the devil is in the details.
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German Cannabis Activist Georg Wurth Wins a Million Euros!
Big congratulations are in order for our German brethren. They have scored a major publicity and resource coup that will definitely help them advance the cause.
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Medical Marijuana Update
Residents of a pair of California counties are fighting back against restrictive ordinances, Arizona rejects some new medical conditions, Illinois rules out draft rules, and more.
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Chronicle AM -- January 21, 2014
The war on weed may be beginning to wheeze toward its end, a researcher reports, and legislators continue to introduce bills to help it on its way. Meanwhile, harm reduction down South gets some attention, a bad bill targets medical marijuana-using parents in Michigan, and Bermuda gets a decrim bill, and more.
Jamaican marijuana users want something to smile about (wikimedia.org)
Chronicle AM -- January 20, 2014
Marijuana law reform bills just keep coming, a most likely unconstitutional food stamp drug test bill gets filed in Georgia, Australian regulators block urine drug testing of state energy company workers, Jamaicans legalizers grow impatient, and more.
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Chronicle AM -- January 17, 2014
Washington's attorney general has dealt a body blow to the statewide legalization of marijuana commerce there, medical marijuana continues to keep state legislatures busy, a New Mexico town and county pay out big time for a horrid anal search, heroin legislation is moving in Kentucky, and more.