For the first time ever, more Americans are in favor of the legalization of marijuana than not, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. You know that trip you’ve been planning to Colorado for, ahem, recreational purposes? Well, you’ve got one main man to thank for it. Activist Mason Tvert is no…
For the first time, a majority of Americans back legalizing marijuana, marking significant changes in public opinion toward the drug, especially among the young, a survey by the Pew Research Center showed on Thursday. The survey showed 52 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana, which the federal government deems an illegal drug even as many…
Yehudit Shimshi had fire in her eyes after she voted in a leafy Israeli suburb on Tuesday, but resignation in her voice. Her hope for an end to the “reign” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forlorn, she admitted. “There is a king sitting on the throne in Israel and I want to dethrone him,”…
Retired Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is taking aim at what he sees as knee-jerk support for marijuana legalization among his fellow liberals, in a project that carries special meaning for the self-confessed former Oxycontin addict. Kennedy, 45, a Democrat and younger son of the late “Lion of the Senate” Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts,…
After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with victories in Washington state and Colorado, its energized and deep-pocketed backers are mapping out a strategy for the next round of ballot-box battles. They have their sights set on possible ballot measures in 2014 or 2016 in states such as California…
Chuck Todd on MSNBC is saying Virginia and Florida are too close to call but look likely to go for Obama, because the counties still outstanding are generally Democratic-leaning. The call in Ohio by the networks was for the same reason, as Michael Barone explained rather patiently to Karl Rove on air at Fox: the…
Israeli researchers say they have developed a marijuana plant that gives the user no high. The research firm, called Tikun Olam, operates a marijuana plantation in northern Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. Medical marijuana has been legal in Israel since 1993, though its recreational use is illegal. Tikun Olam claims that its new marijuana…
Israel has a shortage of civilian gas masks, but you wouldn’t know it from walking down Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Place, where the masks are on sale in half a dozen stores for a mere $25 each. The Israeli model 4A1 gas masks on display in the East Village — where storefront noodle shops bump up…
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