A crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the base of the iconic Seattle Space Needle to openly smoke marijuana at 12:00am this morning. The revelers had come to celebrate the moment marijuana possession became legal in Washington State, thanks to last month’s passage of Initiative 502. Not one police officer (in uniform) was to...
Read more →One week ago, voters in Washington State and Colorado voted by large margins to end the criminality of adults who use and possess a personal amount of marijuana. These historic votes have reverberated throughout the world and have changed the terms of the debate in the War on Drugs. Pot-smoking opponents of Washington’s I-502...
Read more →I have been a speaker at the Seattle Hempfest for six years. It’s always been an honor to speak at the world’s largest “protestival” and there’s nothing that recharges my activist batteries more. Every year the most dedicated marijuana law reformers from the Northwest, West Coast, and from around the country spend three days fighting for...
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