prohibition

Valdez, Alaska — Alaska's first retail marijuana shop opened its doors last week, despite federal prohibition. According to an AP report, more than 250 people lined up outside Herbal Outfitters in Valdez prior to the noon opening last Saturday. Some came from as far away as Fairbanks, more...

Legal opinions, from top government legal minds in Belize, have been given, and they agree - the cultivation of cannabis for industrial use (fiber and seed) is legal in Belize. Still our top-elected officials and politically appointed bureaucrats continue to ignore the fact that the cultivation...

When tackling today's major issues we can learn a lot from history. For example, when Congress was debating marijuana prohibition in 1937, Dr. William C. Woodward, President of the American Medical Association, argued strenuously against it. Dr. Walter Musto, Assistant Surgeon General told...

Washington — A bill working its way through the Council of the District of Columbia would allow patients with valid medical marijuana cards from other states to access medicinal cannabis in D.C. Passage would take another step toward effectively nullifying federal prohibition in practice...

Washington — A bill working its way through the Council of the District of Columbia would allow patients with valid medical marijuana cards from other states to access medicinal cannabis in D.C. Passage would take another step toward effectively nullifying federal prohibition in practice...

As troubled as our country is at the moment, divided between two main mutually contemptuous (and contemptible) political blocs, facing a rising generation seemingly frightened by the exchange of ideas inherent in a devotion to protecting free speech, and apparently committed to placing either a...

A super-majority of Americans support ending the country's failed prohibition on marijuana, the polling company Gallup finds just weeks before five states vote to legalize the plant. The Gallup poll released Wednesday finds support for regulating and taxing cannabis hit an all-time high of 60...

Question from Audience: Isn't the present movement toward the legalization of Marijuana, an expansion of consciousness, evidence of the Octave continuing in a positive direction? Ralph: Well, the octave thing is just a model, you know, and there's lots of different factors at work. The...

Although the period in American History commonly known as prohibition lasted only 13 years, Marijuana has been criminally prohibited in the United States since passage of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act. 2017 will mark 80 years of marijuana's illegality. So much has changed since 1937, most...

One in four Americans may soon be living in places where marijuana is fully legal, thanks to state ballot initiatives this November. California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Maine and Nevada will all be asking voters next month whether to end prohibition on the recreational consumption of...

Wasilla - Mat-Su Borough voters, as well as Wasilla and Palmer city voters took to the polls on Tuesday with big issues before them. The hottest ballot issue was the Borough's Proposition B-1, which sought to ban all commercial sales of marijuana outside of the cities. According to...

I've been thinking a lot lately about marijuana. No, it's not what you suspect, I don't smoke the stuff. Nor do I need it to alleviate pain. Rather, it's our country's schizophrenic way of dealing with "weed." Here in Stephenson County is In Grown Farms, which is perfectly legal and is growing...

Ballot measures to legalize marijuana either for medical or general adult use in eight states this fall provide opportunities to take significant steps toward nullifying federal prohibition in effect. A handful of states will consider full legalization of cannabis for adults over 21, while...

Among all the speeches and balloons and revelry of the recently completed Democratic National Convention - a convention that has already made history by nominating a woman for president – was a far less obvious, but important change in the Democratic Party platform. For the first time since...

I recently read with interest an article by Mike McFeely, (a WDAY host and Forum columnist) entitled "Medical marijuana a needed debate in North Dakota." At the end of his article he stated that North Dakota backers of medical marijuana would be wise to do some storytelling. Shortly before...

Laurie Roberts believes that arresting 12,000 marijuana users in Arizona every year somehow stops kids from getting it. Ms. Roberts may be commended for never being a kid who wanted pot, but her belief that prohibition stops those who do is pure fantasy. It is easier for kids to get pot than...

Did the Democratic Party just endorse national legalization of weed? No, but the party added "marijuana law reform" as a platform plank to be adopted this month. It's a step. The two big US political parties tend to scrape together an agenda and revise their platforms in presidential...

A few days ago the California Secretary of State's office made it official; proponents of The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) have handed-in more than 600,000 valid signatures, assuring that full marijuana legalization will appear on the ballot in CA in November. That's right; Californians...

Albemarle County, Va - Hundreds of activists from all over Virginia are on their way to the U.S. Capitol to advocate for cannabis liberation. The Jefferson Area National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is taking part in the reform of marijuana law's 2016 Congressional Lobby day...

The Pennsylvania House has passed a bill to legalize medical marijuana in the state. If ultimately signed into law, it would take another step toward nullifying the unconstitutional federal prohibition on on cannabis in effect. Introduced by State Sen. Michael Folmer (R-Lebanon), Senate Bill...