Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, said the release date was "an obvious choice, " because Mr. Marley was a devout Rastafarian, whose religion believes using marijuana is a way to get closer to the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs.
Voters in Arkansas rejected a similar measure, while voters in Montana, where medical marijuana is already legal, approved a measure keeping more stringent restrictions in place.
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Starting next month, people who get picked up on charges of having a small amount of marijuana will be released with appearance tickets if they have identification and no open warrants, Bloomberg said, spotlighting the issue in his State of the City address amid debate over the tens of thousands of such arrests in the city each year.
In 2001, the Court ruled against the government in a case involving use of a ground-based thermal imager to detect an indoor marijuana growing operation by measuring the temperature of the roof and outside wall of a house.
In 1931, mobster Al Capone was finally put behind bars because he was c onvicted of multiple tax-evasion charges, and the IRS is taking a similar approach with medical marijuana today.
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Dr Shuabe Manjra, Chairperson of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS), under whose auspices random tests are done by qualified doping control officers, says marijuana does not enhance the performance of a player.
In fact, a recent survey of teens revealed that while 87 percent of teen passengers would speak up to ask a driver to refrain from getting behind the wheel after drinking, only 72 percent of teen passengers would do the same for a driver who has used marijuana.
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John Bonacic, a veteran Republican who represents several mid-Hudson Valley counties west of Poughkeepsie, said he is "open" to medical marijuana legalization, if the drug is dispensed with a prescription from a physician.
One frequent argument for legalization is that it will generate a fiscal windfall by reducing expenditure on marijuana arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration and by allowing the state to collect tax revenue on legalized sales.
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"It's the right thing to do, and it will allow us to target police resources where they're needed most, " Bloomberg said, adding that he continues to back a push to change state laws surrounding marijuana possession.
The U.S. Supreme Court in recent years has wrestled with federalism, striking down laws that it found to be too far removed from Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, while upholding a law criminalizing the use of medicinal marijuana.
The Kentucky case resulting in the ruling involved the police smelling marijuana in the hallway of an apartment building while chasing a suspect they believed was engaged in selling crack cocaine.
After all, in 2011 Gallup found that a plurality of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, and in 2010 fully 70% of Americans supported using marijuana to alleviate pain and suffering.
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With law enforcement focused on stopping violent crime rather than arresting marijuana users, police and other public servants will see a host of new opportunities opened up to them according to Franklin, including better community relations.
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In addition to "Hangover III, " Warner Bros. is releasing "We're the Millers" (Aug. 9), reuniting Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston ("Horrible Bosses") as a drug dealer and a stripper, respectively, who become reluctant international marijuana smugglers.
Researchers don't yet know how to explain these correlations -- and since the study was not a controlled trial, it's not clear whether marijuana or some other factor in marijuana users' lifestyles actually accounted for the beneficial effects.
FDA's statement emphasises that it is smoked marijuana which has not gone through the process necessary to make it a prescription drug. (Nor would it be likely to, with all of the harmful things in the smoke.) The statement's emphasis on smoked marijuana is important because it leaves the door open for the agency to approve other methods of delivery.
Milton Friedman leads a list of more than 500 economists from around the U.S. who today will publicly endorse a Harvard University economist's report on the costs of marijuana prohibition and the potential revenue gains from the U.S. government instead legalizing it and taxing its sale.
Because I am fundamentally opposed to his foreign policies also, and to his escalation of immigrant deportations and medical marijuana busts and the ratcheting up of the TSA. I think you can support a candidate and still be a vocal and persistent critic.
Finally, the RAND report raises a powerful counter to the arguments made by proponents of Proposition 19, namely that legalizing marijuana would result in increased consumption of the drug.
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Mr. Davis's record includes arrests for minor theft offenses in Pennsylvania and one marijuana bust in New York in which charges were dropped, the official said, with nothing indicating a tendency towards violence.
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Having served half of a 14-day sentence for violating probation from a previous drink-driving conviction, he was then fined for possessing 28 grams of marijuana, speeding and driving with no licence or proof of insurance.
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"There was hope amongst a lot of people that the Obama administration would be more open to the medicinal use of marijuana and it initially made some announcements in that direction, but then it later reversed its policy, " he says.
Before joining CNNI, Kinkade worked for Seven Network Australia, most recently as a freelance correspondent from New York where she filed reports on the Polar Vortex, the push to legalize marijuana, Boeing's first space taxi, the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the spread of the Ebola virus.
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