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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,…
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…
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.…
GW Pharmaceuticals believes two compounds in cannabis, THCV and Cannabidiol may help fight obesity-related diseases. Read more at UPI .
Now medical marijuana patients won't have the option of using credit cards...
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,…
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…
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…
The Feds have informed credit card merchant service providers that they must no longer process medical marijuana transactions or risk losing their relationship with Visa and Mastercard forever. Read more about it…
The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act will be on the November ballot in Oregon, according to its backers who say they have 165,000 signatures...
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…
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…
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”…
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…
