The United States, one of the most influential Parties to the Single Convention, has tended to oppose loosening cannabis laws.

Surveys showed a readiness to reform cannabis law.

Both explicitly regulated cannabis much like hard liquor has been regulated since the end of prohibition in the United States, and explicitly avoided any changes to medical cannabis law.

Not long after his death, widow Ann Druyan had gone on to preside over the board of directors of NORML, a foundation dedicated to reforming cannabis laws.

Williams has become a vocal advocate of cannabis, supporting efforts to pass medical cannabis laws in states, as well as calling for full legalization.

Superior and appellate courts in Ontario have repeatedly declared Canada's cannabis laws to be of no force and/or effect.

She is best known as the judge who presided in a nationally-publicized prosecution of a marijuana grower, which led to an acquittal under Washington's medical cannabis law.

He now claims this was a successful tactic and has since continued to run for offices almost yearly as a protest to the cannabis laws.

The measure requests the Santa Cruz city clerk send letters annually to state and federal representatives advocating reform of cannabis laws.

In 1997, he wrote an article sympathetic to efforts to change Canada's cannabis laws.