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by Phillip Smith, July 11, 2012, 09:57pm, (Issue #742) Pelosi and President Obama in happier times (wikimedia.org) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told a bloggers’ roundtable Wednesday that Democrats might be interested…
KQED reports U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag’s office has threatened to seize the property of Harborside Health Center’s Oakland and San Jose locations. The Vapor Room in the Lower Haight is already shutting…
A former Missouri sheriff heads to federal prison, a former Kansas City cop is headed there, too, and a former South Carolina deputy is looking at drug charges. Let’s get to it:…
Check out this handy page at Firedoglake, which provides the DEA's phone number and a sample script to use when asking how DEA Chief Michele Leonhart...
Marijuana.com reports the DEA is in overdrive to get the THC cannabinoid reclassified to a Schedule III substance so Pharma can legally crank out naturally derived THC pills.
Once dispensaries come online in Arizona, medical marijuana patients living within 25 miles of a dispensary won’t be allowed to grow at home. 126 dispensary licenses will be awarded in Arizona initially,…
Fox16 reports Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe stated today that he will not support The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act even if enough valid signatures have been submitted to put it on the November…
As Kentucky tries to push forward on legalizing medical marijuana , the Kentucky State Police (“KSP”) will be pissing away more dollars on marijuana eradication efforts this season by adding helicopters into…
There’s a fun little debate series over at World News & Report featuring some of the usual suspects squaring off over whether the drug war is the best or worst thing in…
Voters in Massachusetts will have the chance to decide in November whether to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana. A spokesman for Secretary of State William Galvin said last Tuesday that proponents…
Am I alone in being puzzled by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s stance on the war on drugs? Yesterday while speaking at the Brookings Institution , Christie said “…the war on drugs,…
We love how this image points out the irony of the prohibition of cannabis that has perpetuated from the United States under major corporate and political interests. How is it that a…
The Vapor Room , a popular San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary in the Lower Haight is being forced to shut down from continued pressure from the U.S. Attorneys’ Office. Read more at…
Willie Houston in San Diego is wrongly arrested and house is nearly burned down in botched marijuana raid. Black smoke pours out of the 2nd story where two women & a 7…
The Young Turks Network shreds Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Michele Leonhart for saying “ It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in the fight…
Even though the US uses both the carrot and the stick in strong arming other nations into supporting the failed war on drugs, nations like Mexico can’t support the perpetual crippling burden.…
Now medical marijuana patients won't have the option of using credit cards...
Check out Mike Rigg’s detailed article at Reason on how the Obama administration finds clever ways to cook the drug war books, including funding the attack on industrial hemp which isn’t a…
