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Law enforcement are using stingrays, which allows them to know who you are calling and the precise location of every device within the range...
Last year wasn't a good year for medical marijuana in Montana. Between the federal raids in the spring of 2011 and the Republican-dominated legislature's...
Karan Vijay Chetan, an Indian national working as auditor in Singapore has been jailed for six months for smoking banned drug cannabis.
The past few days affirm that the mainstream media is now starting to cast serious light and attention on the numerous state cannabis legalization ballots.
Lawmakers, doctors, and others opposing a ballot question to legalize marijuana for medical use contended Monday that the question’s wording is flawed and would enable widespread recreational use of the drug.
Police last week in Hawaii searched 6 properties over 3 days, arresting 9 people and seizing over 100 pounds of marijuana from indoor grow operations.
NY Governor Cuomo has redoubled his efforts to decriminalize the possession of marijuana in public view after state legislators failed to act on...
The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has announced plans to legalize the production and sale of marijuana under a state monopoly, triggering a lively controversy in Montevideo.
A recent poll by Strategies 360 finds a 54-to-38 lead for I-502, with about 7 percent undecided (rounding errors cause it not add up to 100 percent). A larger poll last week,…
DC Circuit Appeals court issued rare order last week for supplemental briefing on "standing" in landmark federal case.
MMA fighter Matt Riddle says the positive drug test that resulted in a brief suspension was more the result of bad timing than malice as he's a medical...
Michael Foster and Susan Cooper spent most of their cannabis fortune helping poor children in Africa, and now they're in jail for it.
Daniel John Thomas Hammett of Georgia becomes the 51st person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
Celebrate the End of Prohibition Speakeasy with Madeline Martinez, the World Famous Cannabis Cafe & Women for Measure 80 . Join us on Sat, November 3...
France looks to be the latest European country to embrace the harm reduction practice of providing supervised injection sites, according to France 24 TV...
Tyler Pagenstecher of Mason, Ohio is convicted of selling up to $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to high school students in southwestern Ohio was sentenced Monday to serve six months to three years in a juvenile prison by a judge who called him "a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail."
The marijuana initiative 502 campaign is trying to woo Eastern Washington voters with conservative and libertarian messages. It's a tough sell.
In an era of a do-nothing national government and a lack of citizen potency, it's time to cultivate state power...
