Week 2 Cannabis News Blog

Well, here we are on week #2. I got no response from last week. I need your help to make this a place to get your Cannabis news. I'm going to post a lot of Cannabis related issues and have a discussion about your feelings on the stories:

The first link is an important article. We all are watching  Washington and Colorado to see how well they handle their new legalization. I personally consider this as a school lesson for us all to study and figure out how to keep this happening if/when your home state starts writing a cannabis bill.

http://cannabisnowmagazine.com/dispensaries/washington-state-threatens-to-shutdown-dozens-of-dispensaries

Here is the international news for this past week:


http://cannabisnewscenter.com/cannabis-news-roundup-international-edition/

How are the police in your area? Are they all SWAT?

War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing

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All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.

Our neighborhoods are not warzones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. Any yet, every year, billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments. Departments use these wartime weapons in everyday policing, especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly targeted people of color.

As our new report makes clear, it’s time for American police to remember that they are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not wage war on the people who live here.

Let us know of any bad arrests!