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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Explosive increase in young online gamblers since legalization

NL Times

The number of young adult gamblers has increased explosively since the Netherlands legalized online gambling in 2021. Since that year, the number of active online gambling accounts registered to young adults aged 18 to 24 has increased by 340 percent to almost 300,000, Nieuswuur reported based on figures from the Netherlands Gambling Authority. A quarter of active online gambling accounts …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Joe Rogan Says Harris Campaign Had 'Hilarious' Off-Limits Interview Subject

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Joe Rogan said Tuesday that Kamala Harris’ campaign had an intriguing requirement for his potential interview with her: There was to be no weed legalization talk. “She didn’t want to talk about marijuana legalization — which I thought was hilarious.” “Why?” comedian Adrienne Iapalucci asked. “Because of her prosecuting record,” he replied, adding, “She put a lot …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

"There would be a backlash": Harris reportedly skipped Rogan podcast over staff's fears of reaction

Salon

An adviser to Doug Emhoff claimed Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris skipped an opportunity to appear on Joe Rogan's podcast over fears of a progressive "backlash." The host of "The Joe Rogan Experience" has shared several reasons why an interview with Harris never materialized. "They had, I don’t know how many conversations with my folks, but multiple conversations giving …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Red wave crashes down on ballot measures

Politico

Nick Troiano, the executive director of Unite America, an organization that advocates on behalf of nonpartisan open primaries, said he had hoped for better results but that advocates for changes in how elections are run recognize they’re playing the “long game” and plan to bring the issue back to state-level ballots in the future. “We’ve started an important conversation, not …

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2 months ago

Trio of ballot failures leads marijuana backers to refocus their efforts for recreational weed

Associated Press

The movement to legalize recreational marijuana has run into a wall of resistance, failing in all three states where it was on the ballot this year and leading proponents to weigh a tactical shift focused more on state legislatures and the federal government. It’s “going to be a potentially tougher hill to climb going forward to enact legalization in the …

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2 months ago

Marijuana legalization fails in Florida as numerous states approve citizen voting amendments

The Hindu

A costly campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida failed Tuesday as voters in dozens of states weighed more than 140 measures appearing on the ballot alongside races for president and top state offices. A South Dakota measure would repeal the state’s sales tax on groceries, a move already taken in most other states. An Oregon measure would required ranked …

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Roughly 160 ballot initiatives were voted on this election. Here's what voters decided

NPR

Roughly 160 ballot initiatives were voted on this election. Here's what voters decided toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images This piece originally appeared as part of NPR's live coverage of the 2024 election. Minimum wage Voters in two red states approved ballot measures to raise the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick time to their …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Florida rejects marijuana legalization measure, other states still pending

Salon

On Nov. 5, voters in four red states will cast their ballots for legalizing cannabis and marijuana, the extracts from the plant. “It’s certainly not crazy to think you might see some other very conservative Southern states follow along, if Florida adopts it.” North Dakota: Measure 5 In North Dakota, advocates are hoping the third time's a charm in legalizing …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Florida cannabis Amendment 3 legal weed vote: Why Ron DeSantis opposes marijuana legalization.

Slate

Floridians are about to vote on Amendment 3, a ballot measure that would legalize recreational marijuana for all adults. Leading the opposition to the “big weed cartel” that Amendment 3 would create is Florida’s Republican Gov. With McConnell’s support, legal hemp was added to the massive agriculture law, or “farm bill,” that Congress usually enacts every five years. However the …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Harris pledges to federally legalize marijuana to bolster Black communities. Will it work?

Salon

On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris became the first major presidential candidate to endorse the federal legalization of cannabis, pledging to ensure “the safe cultivation, distribution and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land.” Though many states have legalized cannabis and its marijuana extracts, the drug still remains illegal at the federal level. It also states Harris …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Medical Marijuana Legalization In Nebraska May Appear On November Ballot

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING OMAHA, Neb. — A group seeking to legalize marijuana for medical use in Nebraska has gathered enough signatures to get the issue before voters in November, the state’s top election official said Friday. Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana announced earlier this year that it had gathered about 114,000 signatures — well more than the approximately 86,000 needed — …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

North Dakota voters to weigh in again on marijuana legalization

Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D. — A ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota has qualified for the November election, the state’s top election official said Monday. North Dakota voters approved medical marijuana in 2016 but rejected recreational initiatives in 2018 and 2022. “The people of North Dakota soundly rejected the idea of recreational marijuana in 2018 and 2022, but here …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Why legal weed is one of the most successful — yet disappointing — social movements

LA Times

A member of the San Bernardino County sheriff’s Marijuana Enforcement Team destroys cannabis plants while raiding an illegal operation in 2022 in Phelan, Calif. Access to the legal weed market has been patchy nationwide. A 2023 survey found that less than 25% of U.S. cannabis businesses are profitable, with most of the money going to a small group of large …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Most drug deaths due to 'polysubstance' use: EU report

Hindustan Times

Synthetic opioids continue to concern European drug agencies. Despite a steady rise in synthetic opioids, heroin is still the most common drug used in the European Union The top takeaway from the European Drug Report 2024 : Drug users in Europe are increasingly using more than one drug at the same time — a practice known as "polydrug" or "polysubstance" …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Report: Differences between gay and straight spouses disappear after legalization of gay marriage

Associated Press

Same-sex spouses were typically younger, had more education and were more likely to be employed than those in opposite-sex marriages, although many of those differences disappeared after the legalization of gay marriage in 2015, according to a new report released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2015 Supreme Court decision proved to be a watershed, with around 41% of …

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8 months, 1 week ago

DeSantis declares NYC ‘reeks’ of pot amid Florida’s battle for legalization, 2024 voters

Raw Story

Standing behind a sign that says "Freedom Month," Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday blasted efforts to pass a constitutional amendment in the Sunshine State to make recreational use of marijuana legal. The Biden campaign believes Florida is in play, and political analysts say with both abortion and marijuana on the ballot there, Florida is a battleground state and …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

Associated Press

PHOENIX — President Joe Biden may eventually ban TikTok, but he’s moving to give something back to the young people who dominate the popular social media app — a looser federal grip on marijuana. Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, Biden has made a number of election year …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?

Associated Press

ARLINGTON, Wash. — When Washington state opened some of the nation’s first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. “Social equity programs are an attempt to reverse the damage that was done to Black and brown communities who are over-policed and disproportionately impacted,” …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

4/20: Inside the history of marijuana's high holiday

Associated Press

SEATTLE — Saturday marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal-weed states thank their customers with discounts. But the prevailing explanation is that it started in the 1970s with a group of bell-bottomed buddies from San Rafael High School, in California’s …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales

NL Times

Six in ten Netherlands residents believe that the production, supply, and sale of cannabis and hashish should be legal. It is currently prohibited to grow cannabis, and growers are also not allowed to supply coffee shops, but the government tolerates the sale. For a while, it was uncertain whether the project would continue at all, because the PVV wanted to …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden, at risk with young voters, is racing to shift marijuana policy

LA Times

A Biden campaign aide said marijuana policy is one of a number of issues the campaign believes will motivate young people. Vice President Kamala Harris looked up from prepared remarks in the White House’s ornate Roosevelt Room this month to make sure the reporters there could hear her clearly: “Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.” Harris’ …

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11 months ago

Super Bowl betting soars, but it's still not legal in Chiefs and 49ers home states

NPR

Super Bowl betting soars, but it's still not legal in Chiefs and 49ers home states Enlarge this image toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Charles Krupa/AP Americans are expected to spend a record-setting amount placing bets on the outcome of this year's Super Bowl. Sponsor Message Geoff Zochodne, a journalist who covers sports betting for Covers.com, says there's no single reason those …

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11 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Cannabis legalization isn’t enough. Rewrite all drug laws based on science

LA Times

To the editor: LZ Granderson correctly implies that the federal Controlled Substances Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1970, is bigoted and unscientific. For example, in 2010 the British medical journal Lancet reported a scientific comparison of drugs’ individual harms as well as their social harms, and alcohol had the worst score overall. The Controlled Substances Act …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Wisconsin Republicans appear to be at an impasse over medical marijuana legalization plan

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans appear to be at an impasse over a proposal to legalize medical marijuana. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu last week said the bill’s proposed creation of state-run dispensaries was a “nonstarter.” Vos said at a news conference that “months and months of negotiations” resulted in a “very detailed bill” he proposed that has the minimum …

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Explosive increase in young online gamblers since legalization

Joe Rogan Says Harris Campaign Had 'Hilarious' Off-Limits Interview Subject

"There would be a backlash": Harris reportedly skipped Rogan podcast over staff's fears of reaction

Red wave crashes down on ballot measures

Trio of ballot failures leads marijuana backers to refocus their efforts for recreational weed

Marijuana legalization fails in Florida as numerous states approve citizen voting amendments

Roughly 160 ballot initiatives were voted on this election. Here's what voters decided

Florida rejects marijuana legalization measure, other states still pending

Florida cannabis Amendment 3 legal weed vote: Why Ron DeSantis opposes marijuana legalization.

Harris pledges to federally legalize marijuana to bolster Black communities. Will it work?

Medical Marijuana Legalization In Nebraska May Appear On November Ballot

North Dakota voters to weigh in again on marijuana legalization

Opinion: Why legal weed is one of the most successful — yet disappointing — social movements

Most drug deaths due to 'polysubstance' use: EU report

Report: Differences between gay and straight spouses disappear after legalization of gay marriage

DeSantis declares NYC ‘reeks’ of pot amid Florida’s battle for legalization, 2024 voters

Biden’s historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?

4/20: Inside the history of marijuana's high holiday

Majority of Dutch in favor of legalized cannabis cultivation, sales

Biden, at risk with young voters, is racing to shift marijuana policy

Super Bowl betting soars, but it's still not legal in Chiefs and 49ers home states

Letters to the Editor: Cannabis legalization isn’t enough. Rewrite all drug laws based on science

Wisconsin Republicans appear to be at an impasse over medical marijuana legalization plan