March 19th, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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Ignoring advice from the House Criminal Justice Committee, the New Hampshire House voted yesterday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Gov. John Lynch quickly threatened a veto if the bill were to pass in the Senate, however Senate Majority Leader Joseph Foster predicts the Senate will kill the bill.
The House Criminal Justice committee voted 13-5 in favor of killing the bill, but the House approved the bill anyways. The House vote gives New Hampshire residents hope that their state may be the 13th state to decriminalize pot.
The bill would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, however it would still remain a misdemeanor for possessing marijuana in a motor vehicle and a felony for selling marijuana. Opponents of the bill claim it will send a bad message to teens who will think all of the areas of marijuana prohibition have been weakened, while proponents of the bill feel the current penalties for marijuana possession are unjust and disproportionate.
February 7th, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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Source: Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles, CA — Vending machines have long been used to hawk everything from Skittles and sandwiches to juice and java, but now one is being used to offer a new product: medical marijuana. Not just anyone can pop some coins in and get some bud. The machine, developed by Los Angeles medical-marijuana dispensary owner Vincent Mehdizadeh, gives up to an ounce of pot per week only to preapproved patients.
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February 4th, 2008 by Peter Bonginelli
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New studies have shown that the criminalization of marijuana costs the government $42 billion dollars a year in lost tax revenues. Approximately $11 billion is spent each year prosecuting and arresting marijuana users (800,000 arrests in 2006). On top of that, the United States misses out on the $113 billion cannabis market losing an estimated $30 billion in tax money that would come from the 30 million pounds sold annually in the United States. Instead this money is currently circulated in the black market, funding projects potentially harmful to our communities.
How long is it going to take the United States government to smarten up? We need tax revenues now more than ever, with a record deficit, and instead of legalizing a substance less harmful than alcohol and consumed illegally by millions of Americans every year, we continue to prosecute individuals for Marijuana use and allow the black market to run the drug trade. It is time to call it quits with prohibition, it didnt work in the 1920s and it is not working now. Every statistic the Bush administration published about a decrease in pot use is junk, they even tried to value pot at over $100 a gram (if you smoke pot you’ll be laughing with me right now).
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