Gente,
seguem as notícias em inglês. Se alguem puder traduzir, eu jogo aqui no primeiro post assim que postarem.
O lance é o seguinte: foi aprovada na Câmara estadual das Ilhas Marianas (território dos EUA no Pacífico) a legalização para maiores de 21 anos. Os detalhes estao nos textos.
Infelizmente o Governador e o Senado já disseram que vão vetar e deixar somente a regulamentacao para uso medicinal.
seguem os links e os textos!
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http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/pacific-island-passes-cannabis-legalisation-bill/5/71934
Pacific Island Passes Cannabis Legalisation Bill
Mana By-election candidate for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Julian Crawford, is welcoming news that cannabis legalisation is taking hold in the pacific region.
The Marianas Islands, last week, became the first pacific country to pass a cannabis legalisation bill through parliament. The bill passed despite threats from the US to revoke over US$10 million in aid to the Islands.
"Cannabis Legalisation in the Marianas will significantly boost tourism in the region as well as undermining the black market profits associated with Cannabis," he said.
Mr Crawford hopes that other pacific islands will follow suit once they see the profound economic and social benefits of cannabis reform. "I believe that a prohibition free zone could be established in the pacific just as was done with the nuclear issue. New Zealand could play a key role in establishing such a zone," he said.
The Mana electorate has a very high pacific population as well as soaring levels of unemployment. "I hope that voters in Mana will support the Cannabis Party at the ballot box once they see their pacific neighbours endorsing legalisaton, regulation and taxation of cannabis as a way to boost their economies," he concluded.
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2010/nov/12/marianas_islands_marijuana_legal
Marianas Islands Marijuana Legalization Bill Passes House
A bill to legalize marijuana passed the House in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), a US territory, November 4. But the governor says he would only sign a medical marijuana bill, and the Senate appears poised to kill it.
Saipan--moving toward a tropical paradiseStill, its passage marks the first time a pot legalization bill has passed in a legislative chamber in any US territory.
The bill, HB 17-45, was championed by Rep. Stanley Torres (I-Saipan). It would "allow individuals 21 years or older to possess, cultivate, or transport marijuana for personal use; permit the regulation and taxation of the commercial production and sale to people 21 years old or older," while barring pot possession on school grounds and use in the presence of minors.
Earlier this year, a cost-benefit analysis performed by the House Committee on Natural Resources said enacting the bill into law "will possibly result in the loss of federal funds but at the same time the Commonwealth government will generate funds through taxation."
Torres and other legalization supporters also argued that the bill would allow access to marijuana by the ill and reduce crime and violence in black markets.
But Senate President Paul Manglona (R-Rota) said Wednesday that the Senate will kill the bill next. "It's for the same reasons I mentioned before," he told the Saipan Tribune, citing concerns about marijuana use's impact on CNMI youth and other ill effects on the community.
And Gov. Beningno Fitial signaled that he was okay with medical marijuana, but not for non-medical.
"I support it for medicinal use," Fitial told reporters. "I never smoke marijuana myself so I cannot talk much about it because I don't have the experience."
Saipan
United States Minor Outlying Islands