Rolling Cannabis Politics Thread

Alaska legalized as well, plus DC. Here's some looking ahead info:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/05/marijuana-legalization-next-steps/18540353/

While California is expected to be the highest-profile state where legalization will be decided in 2016, voters in Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada probably will vote on the issue.

Legalization advocates also are targeting legislative measures at lawmakers in Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

"Now that it's been shown that putting marijuana legalization on the ballot can succeed even in midterms, we can expect to see a huge surge of additional states voting to end prohibition during the 2016 presidential election," said Tom Angell of Marijuana Majority. "And because the issue has been proven to be mainstream as far as voters are concerned, we may even see lawmakers in several states jumping ahead to legalize marijuana legislatively in the meantime."

delisting would be a welcome development

i have a hard time believing MA will legalize in 2016 when medical dispensaries are nowhere close to opening despite the medical law passing in 2012. the state seems to have a vested interest in postponing this process as much as possible and extorting money without actually allowing the growth or sale of cannabis

so NYPD is going to start issuing tickets instead of making arrests for possession, da mare and da commish announced. Which tabloid won the day?

http://marijuana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NY-Tabloid-Covers.jpg?8d0bbe

First, the policy does nothing to address the gross, unwarranted racial disparities associated with marijuana arrests in NYC. That’s shameful.

Second, the policy does nothing to address the illegal searches still often associated with marijuana law enforcement. That’s troublesome.

Third, the policy pushes at least one category of problematic policing into the shadows: While data on marijuana arrests are reported through a centralized statewide system, summons data is notoriously limited and there is no effective reporting system.

As Bratton himself noted in this week’s press conference, because of these limits, the public will now not know whether or not racial disparities persist in summonses as they have in arrests. That’s disconcerting.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gabriel-sayegh-bratton-de-blasio-small-step-pot-article-1.2007158

http://marijuana.com/news/2014/11/tabloids-trumpet-nycs-revised-marijuana-enforcement-policy/

oh my god this so gross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9aieNT6x0

inevitable but very gross nonetheless

pretty sure that's his family's company fwiw
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/18/bob-marley-marijuana-herb

“My dad would be so happy to see people understanding the healing power of the herb,” said Cedella Marley, Bob’s daughter. “He viewed the herb as something spiritual that could awaken our well-being, deepen our reflection, connect us to nature and liberate our creativity.”

She said Marley Natural was an “authentic way to honour his legacy by adding his voice to the conversation about cannabis and helping end the social harms caused by prohibition.”

got to have kaya now (kaya, kaya).

Marley Easy Skanking Fine Caanbis

yea i guess it's tempered a little by his family running this. cedella his daughter seems cool afaik from that marley documentary from a few years ago. i just found that ad to be a little offputting.

let's be clear here i don't always shy away from a lot of stoner tropes though

someone I know just had a meeting with the marley folks about this

whoa...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-dept-allows-indian-tribes-to-grow-and-sell-pot-on-tribal-land/

Not sure how impactful this law change will be, seems to have flown under the radar:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/12/cromnibus_pot_laws_washington_has_quietly_become_much_more_pro_pot_that.html

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/12/nebraska-and-oklahoma-sue-overturn-legal-weed-colorado?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+|+MoJoBlog%29

Nebraska and Oklahoma Sue to Overturn Legal Weed in Colorado

seems unlikely to happen though. more at andrew sullivan: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/12/19/a-legal-threat-to-legalization/ where various opinions are summarizing

also i want to start a thread that is made of photos of dank buds and plants and weed shops that accompany every cannabis politics story ever published

http://wp.streetwise.co/wp-content/uploads//2014/10/marijuana.jpg

yes please

do it

has anyone checked out the leafly app btw? fucking looooool in so many ways but it was so easy to use and helpful

lot of this stuff is seeming the the last gasp from the prohibitionist. dudes are getting desperate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/03/03/nypd-commissioner-blames-marijuana-for-increase-in-shootings

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dea-agent-warns-utah-lawmakers-fearless-stoned-rabbits-article-1.2135339

and the lawsuits against states that have legalized

but according to this latest poll A majority favors marijuana legalization for first time, according to nation’s most authoritative survey

wtf is Bratton even talking about? that shit makes zero sense

no real stoner has the energy to go out and shoot somebody

won't someone think of the bunnies

lol very desperate, the stoned rabbits is obviously very loony but the nypd commissioner is more shameful imo, fuckin ridiculous

aaaaaaaaaaand there are still no medical dispensaries opened in massachusetts, nearly 2 1/2 years after medical cannabis was legalized by voters

starting to think there is a small chance that 2016 will come and voters in MA will vote for full recreational weed before medical becomes available here

aaaaaaaaaaand there are still no medical dispensaries opened in massachusetts, nearly 2 1/2 years after medical cannabis was legalized by voters

― marcos

why?

licensing, inspection, and various permit delays from the state, which doesn't seem to have a huge interest in getting this going b/c it is content to rake in millions of dollars in dispensary application fees

that's p stupid, they're missing out on a lot of tax revenue. that shit keeps Oakland solvent!

yeah, kinda silly. there's a lot of dispensaries where i live (vancouver, bc) and it's not even legal!

it's all silly
it's silly how in some states you can walk into a freaking store and buy OG purple super kush kief-dabs-shatter and the next state over you get arrested for a joint .

yea, i wonder how soon there will be a federal reclassification of the drug. probably not until say 20 states or so (at least) have legalized it

My town has a store literally named Mary Jane's Pot Shop where you can buy anything from $5 .3 gm pre-packed bowls to $216 vacuum-sealed ounces with grower's brand names while over the border six miles east any amount at all can get you a year in prison and all of the store employees would be subject to a five year felony.

Since it opened it's been funny to randomly smell weed when out and about. It's rare to NOT smell it when I walk through the student neighborhood but now there's like the old man down the street who seems to smoke in his garage a lot, which I like to think explains his crazy Christmas lights.

yeah the weirdest is full legal states right next door to arrest-and-possibly-kill-with-swat-teams states but the western us is p insane generally i guess.

it's just a phase we're going through. not the insane part, but the legal next to SWAT team part.

It's even more insane cause mine is the liberal nanny state that tells you how to live your life and the neighbors are the hardcore libertarian / get government out of everything in the name of FREEDOM folks.

weed is a threat to freedom

haha yeah, that is rich xp

this situation is just begging for a Smokey and the Bandit re-boot where they try to smuggle weed across state lines

would watch

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/09/in-a-first-senators-plan-to-introduce-federal-medical-marijuana-bill/

about fucking time!

Rand Paul, Cory Booker and Kristen Gillibrand is a hell of a superteam but whatever gets it done

Great news

live stream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTPi5lpXqOE

aw they carer

I don't see this passing a Republican congress tho th