Marijuana News

Atlantic Beach, Orlando and Tallahassee Have Joined Jacksonville Beach. A longtime effort to decriminalize marijuana possession in Jacksonville Beach has expanded to Atlantic Beach, as well as to Orlando and Tallahassee. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy launched the Atlantic Beach effort last month after advocates saw that many people who wanted to [...]

Let’s get this marijuana thing over with, shall we? California took the next step toward decriminalization earlier this week in a 4-3 vote by the Assembly Public Safety Committee – the first legislative body in the nation supporting recreational pot use. AB390 would overhaul of the state’s marijuana laws and allow possession, sale and cultivation of [...]

USA — Eight in 10 Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use and nearly half favor decriminalizing the drug more generally, both far higher than a decade ago. With New Jersey this week poised to become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana, 81 percent in this national ABC News/Washington Post poll support the idea, up [...]

Police Pot Raids Generate Complaints From Residents “Ambiguous” wording in Hawaii County’s so-called “Peaceful Sky” law needs rectifying because it’s hampering the Police Commission’s work, says the panel’s chairman. The voter-approved initiative that took effect in November 2008 requires police to give the lowest enforcement priority to people at least 21 years old who grow, possess or [...]

Seattle, WA — Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing all marijuana-possession cases, starting with those that were already under way under the old city attorney. City Attorney Pete Holmes, who beat incumbent Tom Carr in November, said he dismissed two marijuana-related cases in his first day on the job, and several others are about to be [...]