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What do David Brooks, Tina Brown, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchanan have in common, besides their lily whiteness and comfy careers nurtured in the ivory halls of corporate media? Answer:
A CNN/ORC International survey released Monday has a solid majority of Americans supporting the legalization of marijuana. The CNN poll results are similar to an October Gallup Poll
Just days after the first legal marijuana sales took place in Colorado, Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.announced that he would support legislation
With apologies in advance for all those important stories that didn't make it, here is Drug War Chronicle top ten 2013 global drug policy-related stories:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) plans to use his executive powers to allow the limited use of medical marijuana, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Adults are buying marijuana in every state in the nation. Only in Colorado are they now buying it in legitimate, taxpaying businesses instead of in the underground market.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of January 1, 2014.
Colorado NORML has posted a clock counting down to the nation’s first recreational cannabis sale. They also provide a list of licensed cannabis retailers
On the first day of 2014, the cannabis policy battle lines decisively shift. No longer strictly a fight between drug warriors and POWs, policy pressures will striate new forks: between producer and consumer
Leaders of Yes On 64 will gather January 1 at 3-D (Denver’s Discreet Dispensary) to recognize the first-ever legal marijuana sales to adults.
Here's the top 10 items from NORML that shaped cannabis policy in 2013, from no association between lung cancer and smoking weed to Uruguay legalizing...
With nearly a month to go before their deadline, organizers of an Alaska marijuana legalization initiative are well-placed to qualify for the ballot.
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has signed into law legislation making Uruguay the first country to create a legal, state-regulated marijuana industry.
The plant limit will surely result in shortages, leaving patients without access to their medicine.
The defelonization effort comes a year after voters approved Prop 36, which rolled back the state's three strikes law by exempting most nonviolent offenders
Any putative 2014 California legalization initiative faces both high financial hurdles and a ticking clock.
This data should inspire NIDA to examine the possibility that regulating marijuana like alcohol and cigarettes could be a more effective approach.
The news for 2013 was good, at least overall. Use of most drugs was steady or even declined. One press release noted that youth cigarette smoking declined!
