Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 07:04pm, (Issue #742) Ocean City, Maryland, is a popular East Coast beach vacation destination, but it’s also the scene of a major push for marijuana arrests,…
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Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 06:00pm, (Issue #742) Nueces County, Texas (pop. 340,000), sits on the Gulf Coast halfway between Houston and the Mexican border, astride drug trafficking corridors headed from…
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 04:51pm, (Issue #742) Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org) Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state’s Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if…
Oregon Expecting to Vote On Recreational Legalization of Marijuana in November
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act will be on the November ballot in Oregon, according to its backers who say they have 165,000 signatures...
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by Phillip Smith, July 04, 2012, 02:57pm A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble…
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17 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana
Check out the cool slideshow at Esquire Magazine called “The Best Reasons to Legalize Marijuana.” It lists 17 reasons with gems such as “about half of the 1.64 million people who are…
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War On Drugs is "The Worst Bad Solution"
Don Winslow writes a wonderfully stinging piece on the utter failure that is the War on Drugs in America with its destructive and checkered history. Check out the “The Worst Bad Solution”…
Arkansas Medical Marijuana Group File Petitions for November Ballot
Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted 11,000 pages worth of petitions yesterday to put legalizing medical marijuana on the Arkansas November ballot. The group says they have 67,885 signatures for The Arkansas Medical…
Video Interview with Adam Scorgie, Marijuana Documentary Film Maker
Urban Rush interviews Adam Scorgie, who made the amazing 2007 marijuana documentary “ The Union: The Business Behind Getting High ” which really helped changed the perspective of many prohibitionists. They discuss…
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Kentucky Senator Clark unveils Gatewood Galbraith Medical Marijuana Memorial Act
Kentucky Senator Perry Clark held a press conference today to unveil his Gatewood Galbraith Medical Marijuana Memorial Act, which would move marijuana to Schedule II in KY allowing for doctors to legally…
Medical Marijuana Update
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 4, 2012:
While You Are Being Inundated With All This American Fourth of July Brouhaha
The Fourth of July is a perfect time to reflect on the federal prohibition of cannabis, especially in an election year and with all of the momentum...
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Government-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA’s Classification of Marijuana
A must read at The Raw Story ; A government-sponsored study concludes that marijuana provides relief to some chronic pain sufferers and that more clinical trials are desperately needed, utterly destroying DEA’s…
Obama, Fool Me Once, Shame On You; Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me
GQ's article "In His Second Term, Obama Will Pivot to the Drug War" made its way around the Internet yesterday and sparked plenty of conversations...
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Medical marijuana bill proposed for 2013 Nevada Legislature
Assemblyman Tick Segerblom requested a bill yesterday to allow eligible patients in Nevada to obtain medical marijuana from dispensaries. Presently there is no legal way in Nevada for medical marijuana dispensaries to…
Video: Excessive Force Used On Long Beach Marijuana Dispensary Employee During Raid
Check out this LA Weekly article on the bullshit June 19th raid by police on the THC Downtown Collective, aka The Happyending Collective (video below). This is a clear use of excessive…
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Manhattan Court Forces Twitter to Hand Over Occupy Tweets
A Manhattan criminal court judge ordered Twitter to hand over data, including non-public constitutionally protected information, on a user that was involved in the Occupy Wall Street protest movement last year. Read…
Did the AZ and Obamacare Rulings Help or Hurt Marijuana Reform
Did the AZ and Obamacare Rulings Help or Hurt Marijuana Reform There is no way to know until the next case goes before the Supreme Court