Friday July 10
Kansas City, Missouri Just Removed All Criminal Penalties for Pot Possession
Kansas City voters already decriminalized weed back in 2017, but under the city's new ordinance, cops can no longer bust someone just for possessing pot.
https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-removes-marijuana-violations-from-city-code/33261339
https://www.tonyskansascity.com/2020/02/tkc-breaking-news-kansas-city.html
https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2019/06/a-tale-of-two-kansas-cities/
Most Americans Want Full Weed Legalization, But Biden's Task Force Doesn't Advise It
wo-thirds of Americans want to put an end to cannabis prohibition, according to Newsweek. Even so, a criminal justice task force co-created by Joe Biden did not include federally legalizing weed among its recommendations to the Democratic presidential candidate.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kg3m/joe-biden-is-coming-for-your-legal-recreational-weed
A Democratic unity task force involving both Biden and former presidential contender Bernie Sanders released on Wednesday its recommendations on how to combat the climate crisis and pursue environmental justice. Although the document called for decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level, it stopped short of endorsing recreational legalization. Notably, Sanders has repeatedly called for full cannabis legalization, but the Vermont senator was apparently unable to convince Biden to do so as well.
PSA: Don’t Drive High Even When Chased By An Ax Murderer
A significant number of cannabis users believe driving while high isn’t a problem, but this ad probably won’t strengthen their case.
Donald Trump previously supported states considering marijuana legalization, but that could be changing.
smoking weed with Jason Vorhees on youtube
https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/trump-administration-doubles-down-on-anti-marijuana-position/
Differences in study designs frequently account for inconsistencies in results between studies. Participant-selection bias and confounding factors attenuate ostensible cannabis effects, but the association with MVA often retains significance. Evidence suggests recent smoking and/or blood THC concentrations 2-5 ng/mL are associated with substantial driving impairment, particularly in occasional smokers. Future cannabis-and-driving research should emphasize challenging tasks, such as divided attention, and include occasional and chronic daily cannabis smokers.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23220273/
Researchers found that car accidents in Colorado increased 10% after legalization, and increases in alcohol abuse and overdoses that resulted in injury or death increased by 5%. ... In 2000, cannabis became legal for medicinal use in Colorado. In 2012, it was legalized for recreational use in the state.
Conclusions. Three years after recreational marijuana legalization, changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado were not statistically different from those in similar states without recreational marijuana legalization. Future studies over a longer time remain warranted.M