New York City police racially profile blacks and Latinos to “manufacture” marijuana offenses against them, five Bronx residents claim in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Maurosol Felix sued New...
A Brooklyn-based company funded by Kickstarter, Bitponics, unveiled their new cloud-based hydroponic garden managing system at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Wednesday. The system is a...
In the wake of the marijuana legalization victories in Colorado and Washington last November, and buoyed by a series of national public opinion polls showing support for...
More DEA raids in Los Angeles, federal prison bureaucrats ignore a Michigan medical marijuana prisoner’s medical needs, and there is lots of action in state legislatures. Let’s...
In a 21 to 4 vote, the New York State Assembly Health Committee approved the use, production, and sale of medical marijuana. Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) and Assembly...
A New York state senator kicked off the third week of a trial to reform street stops Monday by saying that the city adopted stop-and-frisk policies to...
New York has become the latest state to see medical marijuana legislation introduced this year. On Tuesday, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried filed Assembly Bill 6357 and Senator Diane Savino filed...
There is plenty of action in state legislatures, the battle over rescheduling continues, a Maine dispensary gets called out for using pesticides, and much more. Let’s get...
An NYPD inspector parsed words over whether he set “quotas” or “performance goals” for the number of people he wanted arrested or summonsed, in a trial challenging...
An NYPD officer testified Wednesday that his bosses retaliated for his blowing the whistle on quotas by prosecuting him for false statements on forms that his patrol...
New York City police spent an estimated one million hours in staff time making low level marijuana possession arrests between the years 2002 and 2012, according to the findings...
Lawmakers in Albany are still negotiating over the state budget, as part of the proposed deal, Governor Coumo is pushing for the decriminalization of small amounts of...
The NYPD made 39,218 low-level marijuana possession arrests in 2012 (over 440,000 in past decade), each consuming an estimated 2.5 man hours of police work. Just a...
Meet Assemblyman Steve Katz, New York’s Ted Haggard — or Gary Aldridge — of cannabis. In June, the Republican lawmaker voted no on a bill that would give doctors the right to prescribe weed...
I am presenting at a symposium sponsored by the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, “The War on Drugs: Working Toward a Ceasefire,” this Wednesday 3/13...
The Committee on Drugs & the Law invites the public to a discussion on the current state of domestic marijuana laws and the possibilities for the future,...
013 Just one day after announcing at his final State of the City address that he’d reduce the penalty for the possession of small amounts of weed, Mayor Bloomberg took...
