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Written by Christa Rooks
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 |
Two-day event to feature variety of speakers, sessionsCOLUMBIA — Members of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the
National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws think that when it comes
to drugs, the U.S. government is fighting a losing battle.
“The war on drugs is the most ineffective war in history, the most
expensive war in history and the war with the most casualties,” said
Evan Groll, president of the SSDP at MU. |
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Written by Jacob Sullum
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 |
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Prosecutions of adults for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana dropped
by a fifth in Denver last year, following the passage of a November
2007 ballot initiative that instructed city officials to make such
cases their "lowest law enforcement priority." Last summer it looked
like the Denver Police Department was ignoring the initiative, as it
had a 2005 ballot measure that repealed local penalties for possessing
less than an ounce of pot. (Police continued to arrest pot smokers,
charging them with violating state law.) But according to data recently
presented to the Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel, appointed by
Mayor John Hickenlooper to oversee implementation of the 2007
initiative, prosecutions of pot smokers 21 or older fell from 2,105 in
2007 to 1,658 in 2008. "Our city punished far fewer adults for
marijuana possession [last] year, yet the sky did not fall," says Mason
Tvert, a member of the panel and the executive director of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation
(SAFER), the group that ran the initiative campaign. "Hopefully this is
just the beginning of Denver's shift toward a more rational approach to
marijuana." My previous posts on marijuana policy in Denver here, here, and here. |
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Written by Denver Daily News
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Monday, 09 February 2009 |
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In response to USA Swimming’s
suspension of swimmer Michael Phelps, a national marijuana and alcohol
education organization is calling on USA Swimming “to stop driving its
athletes to drink” and reinstate the swimmer “who made the safer choice
to use marijuana.” Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER)
will launch the effort at a press conference at noon today in front of
USA Swimming and U.S. Olympic Committee Headquarters in Colorado
Springs. For more information, visit www.SAFERchoice.org.
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Written by Denver Daily News
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Thursday, 05 February 2009 |
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Prosecutions for private adult marijuana possession plunged more than
21 percent in 2008, reaching the lowest rate since 2005, according to
the Denver City Attorney’s Office. Prosecutions fell from 2,105 in
2007, to 1,658 in 2008, the year following voters’ adoption of a city
ordinance designating adult possession the city’s “lowest law
enforcement priority” and Mayor John Hickenlooper’s subsequent
appointment of the Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel. |
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