Tag / marijuana
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Why All Drugs Should Be Legal
A woman stands on a street corner and takes out a small cylinder of a drug rolled in paper. A policeman walks by and glances over. Could this woman be in trouble? Well, that depends on whether or not the drug has been repeatedly proven to cause lung cancer, even to second-hand users. If so,…
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What Is Sessions Smoking?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ memo reversing the hands-off approach to state laws allowing for the medical and/or recreational use of marijuana has introduced a great deal of tension between federal and state laws. While marijuana-friendly states were not given absolute freedom from federal law under Obama and former deputy Attorney General Jim Cole, they were…
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Medical Marijuana is a Farce
BY JOE LENOFF On November 4, my home state of Florida voted on the legal permissibility of medical marijuana. It failed, but it is still significant that Florida voters went to the polls to decide whether the state would become the 24th in the country to approve medical marijuana. Medical marijuana is a nonsensical term…
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Let’s Clear the Air: Why Not to Light Up in Washington State
BY GRACE PORTELANCE Nearly a year ago citizens of Washington state rejoiced as initiative 502 was passed by a 10 point margin, making it one of the first two states in the United States to pass a recreational marijuana law. We felt pride in our liberal leanings, with both the passage of I-502 and the…
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States’ Rights Today
In a globalized world, competition between countries seems to be the prime concern for people interested in seeing which political system works best. To answer these questions, we need not look past our borders. These same concerns can be answered by the varying possibilities for state-level legislation within the United States. Furthermore, competition between states…
