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Good 5 Cent Cigar, 24 Oct 2012 – Students at the University of Rhode Island are attempting to end the war on drugs. Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), is an international grassroots network of students who are concerned about the impact drug abuse has on our communities. The organization has over 100 chapters […]

Salem News, 16 Nov 2012 – PROVIDENCE, R. I. (AP) – Recent campaigns that made Colorado and Washington the first states in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana are energizing efforts to do the same in New England, with lawmakers in Rhode Island and Maine vowing to push legislation next year to impose alcohol style […]

Johnston Sun Rise, 22 Nov 2012 – When state legislators convene after the first of the year, they will again face a bill to legalize organic marijuana and a new measure to ban its synthetic counterpart. Representative Edith Ajello (D-Dist. 3, Providence) is the sponsor of legislation for the third session in a row that […]

The Day, 26 Feb 2013 – Providence ( AP) – State lawmakers this week will review legislation to legalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana and other proposals that would crack down on some lesser known substances. The legalization bill would allow those 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, […]

The Day, 30 Mar 2013 – Providence- Rhode Island is reducing the penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and preparing to open its first medical pot dispensaries as states around the nation reassess their stance on the country’s most popular illicit drug. A new law decriminalizing the possession of an ounce or less of […]

Alaska Dispatch, 22 May 2013 – NEW YORK – Danielle Bradford was raised in state custody because of her parent’s abuse and drug dependencies. When she was 18 she moved out, found work at a local waffle shop and got her first apartment in Nashville, Tenn. Her estranged father helped by co-signing on the lease.

Times Argus, 11 Jun 2013 – BARRE – As the ink dries on Vermont’s newly signed marijuana decriminalization law, a retired police captain has been traveling around the state talking to rotary clubs and media outlets about his groups opposition to the country’s drug policy. – — Peter Christ worked for the Tonawanda, N.Y., police […]

The Northfield News, 13 Jun 2013 – It’s time to end the war on drugs, said one of the founders of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, who spoke to the Northfield Rotary Club last week. Capt.

New York Times, 15 Jun 2013 – (AP) – The state will be the next battleground in the effort to legalize marijuana. Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, whose office oversees elections, certified a ballot initiative application on Friday that would make it legal for adults to possess up to one ounce of marijuana.

Anchorage Press, 20 Jun 2013 – Alaska’s marijuana reformers are back, this time offering a wholesale legalization of the drug in a state once known as the most permissive in the nation when it comes to smoking pot.