On AlterNet: marijuana legalization

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "marijuana legalization"

Crazy 'Pot Will Make You Sell Your Children' Warning from Otherwise Sane Senator

Ron Fisher, NORML. March 12, 2008.

Iowa constituent writes to Sen. Tom Harkin asking why medical pot is illegal, constituent gets off-the-wall fearmongering reply.

The War on Pot: America's $42 Billion Annual Boondoggle

Rob Kampia, AlterNet. October 9, 2007.

What else could we spend $42 billion each year on? Health insurance for kids? Better paid teachers? It's our choice.

Spinning a Failed War on Drugs

Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. September 11, 2007.

It gets harder and harder for the government to try and convince people that we are winning the war on drugs, yet they keep trying.

MS Sufferer Montel Williams Makes the Case for Medical Pot

Montel Williams, AlterNet. June 13, 2007.

Talk show host Montel Williams suffers from multiple sclerosis. Read his impassioned and informed letter asking the governor of Connecticut to legalize medical marijuana.

New Studies Destroy the Last Objection to Medical Marijuana

Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. May 2, 2007.

New research on "vaporization" has demonstrated that all those fears about the ill effects of smoking marijuana are 100 percent obsolete.

Why Smoking Marijuana Doesn't Make You a Junkie

Bruce Mirken, Marijuana Policy Project. December 19, 2006.

The idea that marijuana is a "gateway" drug has been once again squelched by two new scientific studies.