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Today the D.C. Board of Elections ruled that Ballot Initiative 71 has enough valid signatures to qualify for November’s general election ballot. I...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 04:28
Not perhaps since Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Gulag has there been a dissenting artist who got to be as famous as the government that houn...
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- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 39:42
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On the first of the year, 2014, the state of Illinois began implementation of a system to regulate the production and distribution of medical marij...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:09
According to a report published on the new website RegulatingCannabis.com, there has been a 110 percent increase in the number of annual marijuana ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 10:51
Advocates for legal cannabis in the United Kingdom held the “Beach BBQ Smoke Out” in Redcar over the first weekend in August. The protest is signi...
- Added: Aug 04, 2014
- Length: 06:17
The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need YOU, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better ...
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- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 58:37
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In this edition we hear from Brookings Institution Fellow John Hudak about his study of Colorado’s system to regulate the legal sales and taxation ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 05:00
The Brookings Institution has released a study of Colorado’s six month old program to regulate the legal sales and taxation of marijuana, and accor...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 09:26
There has been some small movement in efforts to reform marijuana laws at the federal level recently. In mid-July, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Stev...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 06:18
Maine passed a medical marijuana law in 1999 with 61 percent of the vote, and in 2009 the legislature decriminalized possession of small amounts of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 04:07
The Cannabis Consumers Union began operation in Denver on July, 22, 2014. CRN’s Brian Bahouth spoke with Larisa Bolivar, founding president of the...
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 08:57
Keith Stroup is Legal Counsel for NORML and recently wrote an entry on the NORML blog titled, “Pot Protestivals and the Role They Play in the Legal...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 07:57
In mid-July, federal and state agencies launched a month-long marijuana raid on the Yurok Reservation in northwestern Ca. At the request of the tri...
- Added: Jul 26, 2014
- Length: 07:04
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...
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- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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In this show we get the latest on the effort to legalize marijuana in Oregon from Peter Zuckerman, Communications Director for New Approach Oregon....
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 04:59
The Philadelphia city council voted (13-3) to decriminalize possession of marijuana on the 19th of June, and for the month following the vote there...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 09:44
On July, 19, Texas NORML organized a meeting of Texas veterans to discuss a variety of cannabis related issues. Vets from the Korean war to the l...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 09:04
Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 17:00
There is a city-by-city grass roots effort underway to decriminalize marijuana in Michigan. Advocates across the state hope to gather enough signa...
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 10:41
The Oregon Secretary of State’s office is likely days away from placing the New Approach Oregon initiative on the November 4th ballot. If passed, ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 07:28
On July 8, 2014, Washington state began the legal sale of cannabis for recreational use through licensed outlets. For the very latest on Initiative...
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 11:01
On July 5, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act, and New York became the 23rd state in the nation to allow mariju...
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 07:48
On July 9, 2014, the Arizona Department of Health Services agreed to grant access to medical marijuana for those diagnosed with PTSD. For details, ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 11:31
It’s the artists — from Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, to Philip Dick and Margaret Atwood, to Trevor Paglen and Banksy — who raise the big questio...
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- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 58:37
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Carl Deal and Tia Lessin talk loopholes, dark money, and unexpected ironies.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 25:20
