Arkansas – Signature Drive to Put Medical Cannibas on Ballot

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LITTLE ROCK, AR (News Release) —Hundreds of Arkansans are volunteering this weekend to collect signatures for the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act in more than 50 locations across the state.
Arkansans for Compassionate Care 2014, the group that sponsored the bill, is hoping to collect enough signatures to put the initiative on this year’s ballot.
“Last year more than 500,000 Arkansans voted for this issue. We very nearly won. We know there are enough people who will sign the initiative—it’s simply a matter of making it easy for them to find us. We have an all-volunteer staff and we hope this weekend to garner enough signatures to get national sponsorship,” said Melissa Fults, Campaign Director for ACC.
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It’s Easier to Die from Drinking Too Much Water Than Smoking Too Much Pot

Steven Ross Pomeroy
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What chemicals are deadlier than THC? Quite a few actually. Cyanide, arsenic, and strychnine obviously top THC, but so does nicotine, caffeine, ethanol, and table salt! A convincing case can even be made that it’s easier to overdose on the very essence of life on Earth: water.
 
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspomeroy/2014/04/24/its-easier-to-die-from-drinking-too-much-water-than-smoking-too-much-pot/

Proposal to Limit Prosecutions of Marijuana Cases in Brooklyn

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Kenneth P. Thompson
Michael Nagle for The New York Times
 

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office will stop prosecuting people arrested on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana, according to a confidential policy proposal that the district attorney, Kenneth P. Thompson, sent to the New York Police Department this month.

The policy is part of a broader push on the part of Mr. Thompson, who took office this year, to look at alternatives to court for low-level offenders. His office is also participating in a task force looking into placing 16- and 17-year-olds who commit low-level, nonviolent misdemeanors, like scrawling graffiti or aggressively riding bicycles on sidewalks, into a short behavioral program, rather than the court system.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/nyregion/in-brooklyn-proposing-to-end-prosecutions-for-low-level-marijuana-offenses.html?_r=0

Initiative seeks to legalize recreational pot in Nevada

By SANDRA CHEREB, Associated Press
Elko Daily Free Press
 

CARSON CITY (AP) — A pro-marijuana group hoping to ride a wave of mounting acceptance for cannabis filed an initiative petition Wednesday seeking to legalize recreational pot use in Nevada.

The measure backed by a group called Campaign to Regulate Marijuana would allow adults 21 and older to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana. It also sets up a regulatory structure for cultivation and dispensaries similar to what’s being implemented for medical marijuana in the state.

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http://elkodaily.com/news/initiative-seeks-to-legalize-pot-in-nevada/article_901ed1e4-cb44-11e3-beae-0019bb2963f4.html

Newspaper Article Accidentally Sums Up The Marijuana Legalization Debate

 | by  Matt Ferner
 
That was the question posed by the Dayton City Paper, an independent alternative weekly in Dayton, Ohio, to its readers last week. As part of its coverage of the legalization issue, the paper set aside a page for a “debate forum,” with one DCP staffer arguing for marijuana legalization on the left side of the page, and another staffer arguing the anti-legalization case on the right side.
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/this-article-sums-up-the-_n_5188301.html?ir=Media
 
 

Arizona high court: Pot metabolite doesn’t prove DUI

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Republic | azcentral.com
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The state’s high court ruled Tuesday that motorists with a secondary marijuana metabolite in their system cannot be charged with a DUI on that basis alone, indicating the court was unconvinced the mere presence of the metabolite proves impairment.
 
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http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2014/04/22/arizona-high-court-pot-metabolite-prove-dui/8011323/