Category: Law & Politics

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News and commentary on cannabis law and politics

July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
Fox News Scared to Have Pro-Weed Lobbyist Defend Pro-Weed Ad

Fox News Scared to Have Pro-Weed Lobbyist Defend Pro-Weed Ad

Something was conspicuously missing from that Fox News clip we posted earlier today, in which the anti-drug bishop Ron Allen rails against the “horrible” nature of a pro-cannabis ad...
By: Andy Cush
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
North Carolina Welfare Drug Testing Bill Passes

North Carolina Welfare Drug Testing Bill Passes

A bill that would require public benefits recipients to take a drug test upon suspicion they are using drugs won final approval in the North Carolina legislature...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
International Drug Policy Reform Conference Scholarship Info

International Drug Policy Reform Conference Scholarship Info

Hello all, The 2013 International Drug Policy Reform Conference is fast approaching. For three days from October 23rd through October 26th attendees will have the opportunity to...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
MPP Ad Pulled From NASCAR Brickyard 400

MPP Ad Pulled From NASCAR Brickyard 400

Thanks to the rotten Drug Free America Foundation, MPP’s “New Beer” legalization ad has been pulled from the Jumbotron at the NASCAR Brickyard 400. Since the ignorant...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Head Shop CCTV Catches Police Informant Planting Crack

Head Shop CCTV Catches Police Informant Planting Crack

An informant sent by police as an undercover investigator was caught red-handed planting crack in the business he was sent to investigate. The ‘investigator’ planted crack on...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Time – The Zimmerman Mind-Set

Time – The Zimmerman Mind-Set

“Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mind-set that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed and...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
DEA Medical Cannabis Offensive May Have Cost $13.3 Million

DEA Medical Cannabis Offensive May Have Cost $13.3 Million

By now most medical cannabis activists are aware that several medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state were raided Wednesday. While the federal government continues to raid medical cannabis...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Senator Segerblom: Nevada to Make a Bundle on Medical Marijuana

Senator Segerblom: Nevada to Make a Bundle on Medical Marijuana

Las Vegas Senator Segerblom (D) said future Nevada pot dispensary owners are in a perfect position to make millions of dollars because Nevada is the only state...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Canada Liberal Party Leader Says Legalize Marijuana

Canada Liberal Party Leader Says Legalize Marijuana

Canada’s opposition Liberal Party head Justin Trudeau has called for the legalization of marijuana, putting himself and his party on a collision course with the ruling Conservatives...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
MPP Airs Ad at Brickyard 400 NASCAR Race

MPP Airs Ad at Brickyard 400 NASCAR Race

NASCAR fans attending this weekend’s Brickyard 400 races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be greeted by an MPP video ad in support of making marijuana legal...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Deanna Jean, Minnesota Mom, Fights for Medical Marijuana

Deanna Jean, Minnesota Mom, Fights for Medical Marijuana

Weedists: Meet Deanna Jean “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Deanna Jean, or DJ as she is...
By: Anna Diaz
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Florida Bong Ban – House Bill 49 – Dazed and Confused

Florida Bong Ban – House Bill 49 – Dazed and Confused

House Bill 49, known as the ‘Florida Bong Law’ has literally gone up in smoke. News agencies continue to tirelessly spin the story as they deem appropriate, and...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Huge Legalization Ad From MPP to Run at NASCAR Brickyard 400

Huge Legalization Ad From MPP to Run at NASCAR Brickyard 400

A marijuana legalization ad from Marijuana Policy Project will be gracing the entrance to the NASCAR Brickyard 400 this weekend in Indianapolis. With a message to inform...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Will Problems with Colorado’s MMJ Industry Remain Under A64?

Will Problems with Colorado’s MMJ Industry Remain Under A64?

As Colorado prepares to unleash legal retail marijuana, many people are growing nervous about what is to come. Some folks are still convinced that the sky will...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Chronicle Book Review: Smuggler Nation

Chronicle Book Review: Smuggler Nation

Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, by Peter Andreas (2013, Oxford University Press, 454 pp., $22.41 HB Amazon) Wow. With Smuggler Nation, Brown University political science professor...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
US Prisoner Count Declines, but 330,000 Still in for Drugs

US Prisoner Count Declines, but 330,000 Still in for Drugs

For the third year in a row, the number of people in state and federal prisons in the US has declined, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.24)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.24)

New Hampshire becomes the 19th medical marijuana state, some folks in Kentucky would like it to become one, too; and the local tussling continues in California. And...
July 25, 2013
07/25/2013
Cannastock 2013 this Weekend in Kentucky

Cannastock 2013 this Weekend in Kentucky

Cannabis-friendly folks of all kinds are gathering this weekend in Berea, Kentucky for Cannastock 2013. 3 days of entertainment and networking for cannabis reform in the state...
July 25, 2013
07/25/2013
PA Governor Candidate John Hanger Offers Pot Reform Platform

PA Governor Candidate John Hanger Offers Pot Reform Platform

John Hanger, one of the candidates running for Pennsylvania governor next year, promotes a three-step cannabis reform platform. First, he wants medical marijuana available to patients that need...
July 25, 2013
07/25/2013
CA Democratic Party Urges Obama to Halt Dispensary Raids

CA Democratic Party Urges Obama to Halt Dispensary Raids

In Costa Mesa, CA on Sunday, July 21, the California Democratic party passed two new resolutions at its executive board meeting. The first of the two dealt with President Obama’s...