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Re: White House Acknowledges Few Scientists Permitted To Assess Cannabis Use In Human If the US government really believed that cannabis is as dangerous as they claim, and of no medical use, they'd be doing the responsible thing, moving full steam ahead with the research necessary to prove it...

Thanks for the link to the SCOTUS blog! (Background for interested readers: Carol Anne Bond's husband got her best friend pregnant(!). She retaliated by putting caustic chemicals in her former friend's mailbox, car door handles, etc. Instead of being charged with assault or attempted...

This letter is consistent with the ongoing stance of the Obama administration: It's OK to be a medical cannabis patient, so long as you don't grow it yourself, no one else grows it, and no one sells it to you. The position is confusing only so long as you entertain the absurd notion that...

Honest debate is all we need to win If it's really true that courts, health experts and the public understand that cannabis is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol (and at well over 100,000 deaths a year in the US, prescription drugs should be added to that list), both physically and to...

The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." There isn't one single clause in the Constitution that could be...

The mayors' letter amounts to a request that the growers be punished for being the victims of a crime. If a guy in their town gets mugged more than once would the mayors request that the victim have his assets confiscated in order to prevent another mugging?

Common household items for ph adjustment Yup! Vinegar is an acid so will lower the ph. One teaspoon of vinegar will lower the ph of a gallon of water by about one full point, so 1/2 teaspoon will move the ph of a gallon of water from 7.0 to 6.5. White distilled vinegar is the...

I'm not sure either. But I'm certain that the extreme skew between Republican and Democratic voter turnout made this a highly unusual election, and that that skew affected not only candidates but all ballot issues where there is substantial disparity of opinion between the two major political...

Thank you for prompting me. I have just read the text of the proposition. I'm now less convinced and more suspicious than ever by the "poor wording" argument. I find it to be written well, certainly as well as most ballot propositions. In many states, alcohol regulations have been...

Yes, people committed to the cause undoubtedly turned out to vote. It's the (mostly) Democrats who aren't political activists or cannabis users but who would have voted for Prop. 19 had they bothered to vote that could have changed the result. I'll emphasize a basic point again because...

The drop in voter turnout in this election was unusually skewed Of course. The extremely unusual thing about this past election is that the drop in voter turnout among liberals/Democrats, who are much more likely to vote to end cannabis prohibition, was far greater than the drop among...

Although the points in this post are basically good ones, I disagree with the conclusion. The explanation for the failure of Prop 19 and other cannabis initiatives is something very simple: The initiatives failed primarily because Democrats didn't vote. Democrats didn't vote because Obama...