http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:50:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/13/lessons-from-dutch-cannabis-system/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/13/lessons-from-dutch-cannabis-system/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:24:42 +0000 Kathleen Maclay http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16384 The Netherlands’s system of quasi-legal retail marijuana sales – steadily evolving since 1976 – may have modestly increased the number of marijuana users, but does not seem to have intensified their use of marijuana or the likelihood that they will move on to harder drugs, says a new UC Berkeley study in the journal Addiction.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/13/lessons-from-dutch-cannabis-system/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/10/19/prop19/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/10/19/prop19/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:26:46 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1232 On Nov. 2, state voters will decide on a controversial and quintessentially California ballot measure, Proposition 19, the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010." Where do students at Berkeley, with its reputation for liberalism (accurate or not) come down on the issue? Eleven campus undergraduates think out loud about the pros and cons of Prop. 19. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/10/19/prop19/feed/ 0