A funny thing happened on the way to cannabis legalization: illegal pot is still big business.
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Legal Weed in New York Was Going to Be a Revolution. What Happened?→
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Lawsuits. Unlicensed dispensaries. Corporations pushing to get in. The messy rollout of a law that has tried to deliver social justice with marijuana.
Read MoreOregon Rethinks Drug Decriminalization
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Democrats seek to reinstate criminal penalties as addiction, overdose deaths and homelessness soar.
Read MoreWhat Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs→
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A bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned.
Read MoreCalifornia’s Marijuana Paradise Lost→
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The black market in pot proliferates despite legalization.
Read MoreThieves are stealing California’s scarce water. Where’s it going? Illegal marijuana farms→
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As drought grips most of California, water thefts have increased to record levels. Thieves tap into hydrants, pump water from rivers and break into remote water stations and tanks.
Read MoreDoes marijuana legalization work? The answer is a resounding No.→
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In a powerful review of how Colorado is doing since legalizing marijuana for medical use in 2009 and for recreational use in 2014, David Murray of the Hudson Institute suggests the answer is a resounding “No.”
Read MoreA founding father of legal pot reveals regrets→
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I wish I could be proud of what we created, but I’m not. The outcome of 64 is shameful, hurts people, and Colorado is not “safer.”
Read MoreThe True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In→
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Emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.
Read MoreNew problem for legal weed: Exploding pot factories→
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Legalization of marijuana at the state level has resulted in at least 10 recorded instances of fires or explosions at facilities that extract hash oil.
Read MoreReasons Marijuana Legalization Seems To Be Failing→
/One of the biggest arguments made by cannabis advocates when trying to sell their spiel to politicians and voters was that legal weed would eliminate the black market. This, they said, would make it more difficult for children to get their hands on pot than in decades past while also generating significant tax revenue for the states. But the underground pot trade hasn’t really gone anywhere. In fact, it is only growing stronger now that criminal organizations have the luxury of being domestically based instead of running distribution from Mexico.
Read MoreStop the "green rush"→
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What I learned is that just because prohibition failed, it does not mean legalization is succeeding. Few of the most significant benefits legalization advocates promised were materializing. The thirst for profit and the interests of powerful corporations were swiftly sidelining small-scale producers and retailers, even as we filmed. The need to provide justice to the victims of the war on drugs has been lost in the “green rush.” It was the same old story: powerful corporate interests coopt a nominally progressive social movement and warp it to their own benefit.
Read MoreLegalizing pot is proving to be a public-health disaster→
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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that legalizing marijuana consumption was a colossal public-health blunder.
Read MoreExploding danger: U.S. marijuana oil labs pose deadly, destructive hazard→
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The Sunny Meadow Street explosion illustrates a growing danger as marijuana moves from the counterculture to the mainstream, law enforcement officials told Reuters. With cannabis now legal for medical or recreational use in 33 states and the District of Columbia, users are discovering new ways of consuming the drug.
Read MoreAfter 16 Months of “Legal” Pot In Californian Is Anything Working?
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Proposition 64 (November 2016) promised voters in California several key things in exchange for a vote to “legalize”. Have any of those promises been kept?
Read MoreCalifornia lawmakers already want to roll back a key promise of marijuana legalization→
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That guarantee of local control was a central promise of the proposition. But now, some legislators want to reverse it and force local governments to accept pot stores against their will. It’s an unfair bait-and-switch tactic that should not be approved.
Read MoreCalifornia is awash in cannabis cash. Some is being used to bribe public officials→
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In the more than two years since California voters approved the licensed growing and sale of recreational marijuana, the state has seen a half-dozen government corruption cases as black-market operators try to game the system, through bribery and other means. The cases are tarnishing an already troubled roll-out of the state permitting of pot businesses as provided for when voters approved Proposition 64 in November 2016.
Read MoreGovernor lauds a pretend "experiment" with pot→
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“The Gazette has been trying all year to report on the impact of marijuana on Colorado five years after it was legalized. Time and again, our reporters have been frustrated by an infuriating lack of reliable data measuring that impact, despite state laws that require it,” explained Gazette Editor Vince Bzdek in an article titled “When it comes to data on pot’s impact, the state is driving with its eyes closed.”
Read MoreArguments for Marijuana Legalization are Lies
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Lies were used to fool voters in states where marijuana “medicalization” or legalization was on the ballot and the lies continue to be foisted on the public for political power and money. Let me identify and answer a few of the lies.
Read MoreStudy Finds No Strong Evidence Cannabis Reduces Chronic Pain→
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A new study reports cannabis may not be as helpful in treating chronic pain as believed. Researchers say they have found no clear evidence that cannabis can reduce pain severity or pain interference in those with chronic non cancer pain.
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