Although the consumption of cannabis may cause health hazards, criminal punishments, and motor impairments, an active social reform is underway in hopes of optimistic outcomes influenced by Washington's and Colorado's movement. ... University of Massachusetts' Professor Lyle Clark coalesced with the American Civil Liberties Union to petition the DEA for a license to cultivate research-grade cannabis for use in a privately-funded study that aims to develop the plant into a legal, prescription medicine (DEA). ... He strongly believes that Californians should wait a minimum of two ...

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Voters in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have voiced their support and achieved some gains in legalizing medical marijuana use in these states. ... "Dirk Korf of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Amsterdam has used the smaller studies to estimate that 3 percent of Dutch people had used cannabis at least once in 1970, rising to 12 percent in 1991. ... "Last year, Robert MacCoun of the University of California at Berkeley and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, compared trends in cannabis use in the US, Norway (which bans it), and t...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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