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Pot Matters: Marijuana in the Larger Context of Criminal Justice Reform
Marijuana legalization can also be understood in terms of a more general interest in criminal justice reform, which has become a hot topic for a number of reasons. → Read More
Pot Matters: The New Marijuana Issues
Looking ahead into 2016 one thing is clear: there is a lot more to marijuana’s legalization than whether cannabis users are arrested, fined or regulated. That’s the old marijuana issue. → Read More
How to Argue for Pot Legalization in the Face of Prohibition Supporters
As more and more people start paying attention to the results of marijuana legalization in various states—whether for medical or recreational use—the nature of the argument in its favor is changing. → Read More
Pot Matters: Cannabis Use in High School Unchanged Since the Advent of Legalization
A key annual survey has revealed that daily cannabis use among high school seniors has “changed little since 2010,” despite the advent of legalization in several states and its consideration in many others. → Read More
Pot Matters: Cannabis and Employment in the Age of Impending Legalization
Even in states with legalized cannabis, it’s use on the job can still result in termination. That’s one of the main findings of a new survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). More importantly, despite the harshness of current employer policies, human resource professionals are being advised that change is on the way and that they will need to adapt. → Read More
Pot Matters: The Drug War After Cannabis Is Legalized
What happens to the War on Drugs once cannabis is legalized? → Read More
Pot Matters: The DEA and Cannabis Prisoners
One of the most misleading arguments against the legalization of cannabis is that no one really goes to prison for pot possession. → Read More
Pot Matters: How Cultivation Killed Prohibition
Following the Paraquat scare of the late 1970s, Americans began to grow cannabis in the United States—initially in California, Oregon and Hawaii. In response, the DEA began a concerted effort to eradicate U.S. grown cannabis with an aggressive program, the Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Supression Program. → Read More
Racial Disparities in Virginia Marijuana Arrests
Marijuana arrests in Virginia have been increasing over the last decade, and the racial disparity in marijuana possession arrest rates has been getting worse every year. → Read More
Pot Matters: How Often Do You Use Cannabis?
According to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 33 million Americans use cannabis every year and 19 million used cannabis in the last month. Those recent, last month, users amounted to 19.5 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds (a total of 6.7 million) and 12.5 percent of 26- to 34-year-olds (another 4.7 million). → Read More
Pot Matters: Marijuana, the Courts and Probation
One of the arguments for keeping marijuana illegal is that no one really goes to jail anymore after getting arrested—as if that makes it okay. It’s not really true (because people do go to jail), but let’s examine the claim on its own terms and look at what happens to people who are arrested and not sent to jail. → Read More
Marijuana, the Munchies and Obesity
The evidence is mounting—despite the legendary munchies, marijuana does not make people fat. Actually, quite the opposite is the case. A new study in the February issue of the medical journal Obesity demonstrated a connection between cannabis use, lower body mass index, lower fat mass and lower fasting insulin levels. → Read More
The Original Hysteria over Marijuana and Brain Damage
Here is how science works: Scientific theories produce predictions. Reality, in terms of experiments or actual experience, proves whether or not those predictions were accurate. Marijuana prohibition was based on a prediction that marijuana use was not just harmful, but catastrophically harmful to the people who used it. → Read More
The Felony Equation Police Use to Bust Marijuana Cultivators
There are additional issues when it comes to mounting a defense to unfounded felony cultivation charges, when it comes to the issue of personal cultivation. But the felony equation goes to the heart of the problem with marijuana laws, and it’s more than police officers making self-serving observations and offering them up to the public as expert opinion. → Read More
Pot Matters: Marijuana and the Grand Old Party
The latest Republican presidential debate included some discussion of marijuana legalization. Chris Christie is against it; Rand Paul is for it; Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina want to increase funding and attention to drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration; and many candidates have expressed their support for states' rights to have different policies than the federal government. → Read More
Pot Matters: Women and Cannabis
Women account for 40 percent of annual cannabis users, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health. This means that there are 13.1 million women in the United States who have used cannabis in the last year (compared to 19.9 million men). → Read More
A New Look at Why Pot Prohibition Fails
Marijuana prohibition is a failure. Its failure is a matter of evidence, not a matter of opinion. After all, it has been in effect for 78 years, and marijuana is more popular now than ever. That’s evidence. But why is it a failure? There are lots of reasons. → Read More
Pot Matters: Dealing With Police While High
Numerous press accounts have relayed the story of an Ohio man who recently called police to complain that he was “too high” after smoking marijuana. Police found the groaning 22-year-old man in the fetal position surrounded by Doritos, Goldfish crackers and Chips Ahoy cookies. He refused medical treatment and was not arrested. The mind reels... there is just so much here to comment on. → Read More
Pot Matters: Marijuana Arrests to Continue in Ohio, But How Bad?
As the the defeat of the cartel-style legalization in Ohio continues to be analyzed, many commentators have noted that the biggest cost of ResponsibleOhio’s failed campaign is the continuation of marijuana arrests in the state. Indeed, many argued prior to the election that this flawed initiative should be supported because it was important to end marijuana arrests, no matter what. → Read More