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LEGALISATION OF MARIJUANA

It is a long time since the First Lady of the United States urged his countrymen to "Just Say No"! It was Nancy Reagan who, in 1980, launched the slogan, basic, fight against drugs, "Just Say No! ". Today, Americans increasingly say "Yes"! Yes, consumption and even the legalization of marijuana!

Thursday, December 6 was called "legalization day" in Washington. The "day of legalization." On 6 November, the voters of this state in the far north-west of the United States, which houses among other Boeing plants and headquarters of Microsoft, have endorsed the "Initiative 502" legalizing the possession and use "to personal and recreational purposes "of up to one ounce (28 grams) of marijuana. The measure passed by a margin of twelve points, 56% against 44%. It shall come into force tomorrow and should be welcomed by a huge "smoke in" hear a gathering of hashish smokers who will be clouding the mind, at the foot of the Seattle Space Needle, the giant tower with a flying saucer !

They are not alone. During the same election on November 6, voters in Colorado approved 53% a measure called "Amendment 64," which not only allows the possession and consumption of cannabis but "regulate" commerce. That is to say that this product will now be "taxed". Like alcohol!

Three other states have voted on measures affecting cannabis. Oregon, which borders the state of Washington to the south, and reputedly very "progressive" has rejected a law similar to that of his neighbor, because a lack of money to properly promote far told his followers .. . Montana has authorized the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes, while in Arkansas similar proposal was defeated.

Thus, cannabis is now legal in the United States in two states, Colorado and Washington, and authorized medical purposes in sixteen others. This is California, which was the first launched this movement with its Proposition 215 in 1996, extolling the merits of cannabis analgesics ill patients...