Could we start posting all related news in one topic? This thread deals with legalization of all drugs but I'll start with marijuana because Uruguay is due to allow it some time today.
Tomorrow: Will Uruguay Be First Country To Legalize Marijuana?
by Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director
July 30, 2013
As soon as tomorrow afternoon votes are expected in the Uruguayan House of Representatives which will cast the country into the lead to become the first country to official end cannabis prohibition.
The country’s president, José Mujica, and the ruling party in the Uruguayan Senate, Frente Ampli, are also public supporters of replacing cannabis prohibition with a state monopoly on cannabis commerce.
Since President Mujica’s public support for legalization was made public in Uruguay last year, a concerted effort to reform the country’s cannabis laws has been underway featuring national TV ad campaigns: with well produced ads featuring mothers, doctors and lawyers.
http://blog.norml.org/2013/07/30/tomorr ... marijuana/
The most recent citizen's initiative in Finland for decriminalization of cannabis use and possession got less than 30 000 of the 50 000 names in six months time parliament requires before they proceed into voting. I was a little surprised by that, I thought there were more pot heads here
One home grower Mikko I. Peltola says he will make a papier-mache sculpture out of the 198 paper signatures
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Marijuana is legal in America in the state of Colorado.
Does anyone know a violent pot head? No. Does anyone know a violent alcoholic? Yes.
Does anyone know a violent pot head? No. Does anyone know a violent alcoholic? Yes.
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it's also legal in the state of Washington
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So, if I said, obummer hotboxed the white house I wouldn't be wrong, right? They have to prove he didn't by proving he made sane decisions during his presidency, right?
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Ibelieve there are 19 states in America where medicinal marijuana is legal, with Colorado being the first to outright legalise recreational consumption, and I think Washington followed through with the same. I hope more and more continue to wake up and do the same.
What I really dream of is seeing industrial hemp removed from the association of cannabis, and people being able to farm it for all of it's industrial beauty! Talk about an economic kick starter.
What I really dream of is seeing industrial hemp removed from the association of cannabis, and people being able to farm it for all of it's industrial beauty! Talk about an economic kick starter.
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In two states any kind of marijuana is legal. Obama opposed its legalization. It's also legal in Portugal and Amsterdam.
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It's semi legal. A grey area where you can buy it but not grow it yourself (well, you can if it's only enough for one person).Ry wrote:In two states any kind of marijuana is legal. Obama opposed its legalization. It's also legal in Portugal and Amsterdam.
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Uruguay MPs back marijuana legalisation bill
1 August 2013 Last updated at 02:51 GMT
Uruguay's House of Representative has passed a bill to legalise marijuana.
If it goes on to be approved by the Senate, Uruguay will become the first country to legally regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana.
The law is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, which says it will remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.
Under the bill, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana.
The state would assume "the control and regulation of the importation, exportation, plantation, cultivation, the harvest, the production, the acquisition, the storage, the commercialisation and the distribution of cannabis and its by-products".
Buyers would have to be registered on a database and be over the age of 18. They would be able to buy up to 40g (1.4oz) per month in specially licensed pharmacies or grow up to six plants at home.
Political hot potato
The necessary 50 members of the 99 sitting in the House voted in favour of the bill after a 13 hour-long debate.
Those that backed the project in the lower chamber belonged to the ruling Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition, which has a majority of one in the House.
Frente Amplio Congressman Dario Perez had earlier threatened to vote against the bill.
The bill was unveiled last year by Defence Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro who argued that "the prohibition of certain drugs is creating more problems for society than the drugs themselves... with disastrous consequences".
But Mr Cardoso of the opposition Colorado Party said that "in no country in the world has the consumption of drugs been reduced through legalisation".
Another opposition politician, Richard Sander, said that even if the law made it through both chambers, he would launch a petition to have it overturned.
The vote comes amidst a vociferous debate about drug legalisation in Latin America.
A group of former presidents and influential social figures, including the Brazil's Henrique Cardoso, the Mexico's Ernesto Zedillo and Colombian ex-leader Cesar Gaviria, have called for the legalisation of marijuana.
But only last week Pope Francis criticised drug legalisation plans during a visit to Brazil.
Speaking at the inauguration of a clinic for drug addicts in Rio de Janeiro he said it was "necessary to tackle the problems which are at the root of drug abuse, promoting more justice, educating the youth with the values that live in society, standing by those who face hardship and giving them hope for the future".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23516966
1 August 2013 Last updated at 02:51 GMT
Uruguay's House of Representative has passed a bill to legalise marijuana.
If it goes on to be approved by the Senate, Uruguay will become the first country to legally regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana.
The law is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, which says it will remove profits from drug dealers and divert users from harder drugs.
Under the bill, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana.
The state would assume "the control and regulation of the importation, exportation, plantation, cultivation, the harvest, the production, the acquisition, the storage, the commercialisation and the distribution of cannabis and its by-products".
Buyers would have to be registered on a database and be over the age of 18. They would be able to buy up to 40g (1.4oz) per month in specially licensed pharmacies or grow up to six plants at home.
Political hot potato
The necessary 50 members of the 99 sitting in the House voted in favour of the bill after a 13 hour-long debate.
Those that backed the project in the lower chamber belonged to the ruling Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition, which has a majority of one in the House.
Frente Amplio Congressman Dario Perez had earlier threatened to vote against the bill.
The bill was unveiled last year by Defence Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro who argued that "the prohibition of certain drugs is creating more problems for society than the drugs themselves... with disastrous consequences".
But Mr Cardoso of the opposition Colorado Party said that "in no country in the world has the consumption of drugs been reduced through legalisation".
Another opposition politician, Richard Sander, said that even if the law made it through both chambers, he would launch a petition to have it overturned.
The vote comes amidst a vociferous debate about drug legalisation in Latin America.
A group of former presidents and influential social figures, including the Brazil's Henrique Cardoso, the Mexico's Ernesto Zedillo and Colombian ex-leader Cesar Gaviria, have called for the legalisation of marijuana.
But only last week Pope Francis criticised drug legalisation plans during a visit to Brazil.
Speaking at the inauguration of a clinic for drug addicts in Rio de Janeiro he said it was "necessary to tackle the problems which are at the root of drug abuse, promoting more justice, educating the youth with the values that live in society, standing by those who face hardship and giving them hope for the future".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23516966