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Mark A.R. Kleiman

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Name: Mark A.R. Kleiman

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Washington, Colorado, and the Headaches of a Legal High

When Colorado and Washington State passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana last November, they weren’t just the first states in the country to do so—they were the first governments in the world to do so. While other nations and states, most notably ... [Published TAPPED - May 24 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Medical Marijuana, Legalization, Taxes, Mark A.R. Kleiman

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Moral Questions vs. Computations

Mark Kleiman describes a recent exchange with Jonathan Rauch, and in doing so sheds light on how different people approach public policy questions. Kleiman has observed that while roughly 80 percent of the users of any given drug use it responsibly and ... [Published National Review - May 24 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Jonathan Rauch, Drugs

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Oxford University Press

Legal Weed: Economics

Marijuana (Federacion de Asociaciones Cannabicas/flickr)A May series on marijuana continues with the economics of the drug. Mark Kleiman professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, marijuana legalization consultant for Washington ... [Published WNYC - May 23 2013]

Entities: Marijuana Legalized, UCLA School of Public Affairs, Mark A.R. Kleiman, Oxford University Press

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

POT: Myths and misconceptions abound

Re: “Navigating the road to commercial marijuana no simple task” ( TNT , 5-21).It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant so-called drug experts are when rationalizing the legalization of marijuana. In the article, Bill Keller of The New York Times references ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 22 2013]

Entities: Mark A.R. Kleiman, Drugs, Bill Keller, Alcohol

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Navigating the road to commercial marijuana no simple task

The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea.Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small amounts. ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 21 2013]

Entities: Legalization, Navigator, Cannabis, Drugs, Tobacco

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Organization of American States

OAS study says countries should consider decriminalizing drug use

BOGOTA, Colombia The Organization of American States said Friday that countries should consider decriminalizing drug use, a shift backed by several Latin American leaders but opposed by the United States.Decriminalization could be one of many transitional ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 18 2013]

Entities: Organization of American States, Drugs, Colombia, Jose Miguel Insulza

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Legal Weed: Science of Marijuana

Marijuana (Federacion de Asociaciones Cannabicas/flickr)A May series on marijuana continues with a look at the science of marijuana Mark Kleiman professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, marijuana legalization consultant for Washington ... [Published WNYC - May 16 2013]

Entities: Marijuana, Marijuana Legalized, UCLA School of Public Affairs

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 2 reports

Transparency In The Weed Market

Mark Kleiman illustrates the need for it:It appears that one local grower developed a strain sold under the “Purple Urkle” label. It was widely held, by producers and consumers alike, to be truly righteous weed, and it flew off the shelves.Then the fashion ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 10 2013]

Entities: Tetrahydrocannabinol, Market, Mark A.R. Kleiman

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Managing the project of a lifetime: marijuana legalization

Steven Davenport has a cool job. The 25-year-old is the managing director for Botec Analysis, the consultant team helping the state Liquor Control Board develop a newly legal marijuana market.He’s not the big boss – that’s Mark Kleiman, a UCLA professor ... [Published Puget Sound Business Journal - May 07 2013]

Entities: Marijuana Legalized, Mark A.R. Kleiman, UCLA

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

The Cannabis Is out of the Bag

This week, the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing touches on legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try ... [Published Creators.Com - May 07 2013]

Entities: Cannabis, Stuart Taylor, Jacob Sullum

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Assorted links

1. On the economics of status . 2. Conservatives and prison reform , by Eli Lehrer. 3. Mark Kleiman on crime . 4. The depositor haircut for Cyprus . 5. Normative signs and the poetry of ought . ... [Published Marginal Revolution - May 05 2013]

Entities: Mark A.R. Kleiman, Cyprus, prison

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Washington's 'pot czar' tasked with setting up a new industry

A woman passes a joint at a pro-marijuana "4/20" celebration in front of the state capitol building April 20, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. Colorado, one of 14 states to allow use of medical marijuana, has experienced an explosion in marijuana dispensaries, ... [Published SCPR - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Mark A.R. Kleiman, John Moore, Marijuana Legalized, Medical Marijuana

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Washington, Colorado, and the Headaches of a Le... [Published TAPPED - May 24 2013]
Moral Questions vs. Computations [Published National Review - May 24 2013]
Legal Weed: Economics [Published WNYC - May 23 2013]
POT: Myths and misconceptions abound [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 22 2013]
Navigating the road to commercial marijuana no ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 21 2013]
Legal Marijuana in Colorado and Washington: Q [Published Brookings Institution - May 21 2013]
Q&A: Legal Marijuana in Colorado and Washington [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 21 2013]
How To Legalize Pot [Published Media Awareness Project - May 20 2013]
Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footp... [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]
OAS study says countries should consider decrim... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 18 2013]
Pot regulations in Washington may differ from C... [Published Bloomberg - May 17 2013]
Legal Weed: Science of Marijuana [Published WNYC - May 16 2013]
Washington State Medical Marijuana Availability... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 16 2013]
Medical weed could jinx recreational dope marke... [Published 92.9 WLMI - May 16 2013]
Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footp... [Published Seattle Times - May 12 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013]
Transparency In The Weed Market [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 10 2013]
Transparency In The Weed Market [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 10 2013]
Legalize it, but tax it! Colorado seeks to regu... [Published Marketplace - May 09 2013]
How Product Labeling Killed Some Truly Righteou... [Published Daily Beast - May 09 2013]
Managing the project of a lifetime: marijuana l... [Published Puget Sound Business Journal - May 07 2013]
The Cannabis Is out of the Bag [Published Creators.Com - May 07 2013]
Pot tourism in Washington, Colorado? [Published Seattle Times - May 07 2013]
Assorted links [Published Marginal Revolution - May 05 2013]
Safe Oakland Speaker Series formed to engage pu... [Published Inside Bay Area - May 02 2013]
Medicare Fraud and Skirball's Values: Readers C... [Published Los Angeles Weekly - May 02 2013]
Bush v. Gore 13 Years Later; Who Smokes Pot; Jo... [Published WNYC - May 01 2013]
How Should Legal Pot Be Labeled? [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 01 2013]
Editorial: How to reduce crime: Pay a nickel mo... [Published STLtoday.com - Apr 30 2013]
Washington's 'pot czar' tasked with setting up ... [Published SCPR - Apr 29 2013]

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Washington, Colorado, and the Headaches of a Le... [Published TAPPED - May 24 2013] When Colorado and Washington State passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana last November, they weren’t just the first states in the country to do so—they were the first governments in the world to do so. While other nations and states, most notably ...
Q&A: Legal Marijuana in Colorado and Washington [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - May 21 2013] Editor's Note: As a part of our work on the legalization of marijuana , this paper is published in partnership by Governance Studies at Brookings and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) . It is edited by John Walsh, with contributions ...
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013] Friday on the Dish, Andrew further pondered the brutality surrounding the Gitmo hunger strike, challenged Leon Wieseltier’s moralizing on Syria, and separated out the scandal from the politicking in the Benghazi fiasco. He, weighed in on the ...
Transparency In The Weed Market [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 10 2013] Mark Kleiman illustrates the need for it: It appears that one local grower developed a strain sold under the “Purple Urkle” label. It was widely held, by producers and consumers alike, to be truly righteous weed, and it flew off the shelves. Then ...
Assorted links [Published Marginal Revolution - May 05 2013] 1. On the economics of status . 2. Conservatives and prison reform , by Eli Lehrer. 3. Mark Kleiman on crime . 4. The depositor haircut for Cyprus . 5. Normative signs and the poetry of ought . ...

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Pot czar: Not just about raising money [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 20 2013]