For those who are interested in reading a few blurbs and updates. Call it an overnight news digest for cannabis, if you will.
Kentucky makes several reforms to its sentencing laws...very good news. [via drcnet.org]
Republican pollsters for Gov Rick Scott in FL found that 57 percent of Floridians support legal MMJ. Kind of interesting given the recent backlash facing Scott after he opposed regulations on oxycontin, even in the face of raids by DEA and letters from governors of other states. [via Cannabis Culture magazine] One of those governors was Gov Beshear of KY, who signed these reforms into law.
If you haven't checked out the great series by CDH in Brooklyn on Gov Rick Scott's prescription pill mills, give it a look.
And the Great State of Maine is now entering into the medical dispensary phase of its medical cannabis program, as planned. [via NORML]
Also see this as well:
A just released special report from the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations has called on the US government to entertain serious drug reforms, including allowing states to experiment with marijuana legalization, as part of an effort to get a handle on violent Mexican drug trafficking organizations.The report, The Drug War in Mexico: Confronting a Shared Threat, is authored by David Shirk, professor of political science and director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. Shirk is a leading scholar on US-Mexican relations.