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How Much Marijuana Prohibition Costs You, the Taxpayer
$16 billion to house the nearly 800,000 inmates in prison for marijuana 'crimes' during 2011. Marijuana prohibition is very expensive.
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Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush
During the entire 8 years under Bush, the federal government saw 163 medical marijuana cases, or about 20 per year. With almost 1.5 years left, the Obama...
Chronicle Book Review: Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Michelle Alexander notes, she used Race to Incarcerate as an organizing tool, sending copies to people who could benefit from its policy analysis.
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Marc Emery Released from Solitary Confinement
Marc Emery, Canada’s “Prince of Pot," has been released from a week of solitary confinement in a Mississippi prison for...
Marc Emery in Solitary Confinement in US Prison
Canadian marijuana seed magnate and political dissident Marc Emery, who is about four years into a five-year US prison sentence...
MI Medical Marijuana Patients Surrender for Prison Sentence
Several Michigan medical marijuana patients and caregivers are being forced to surrender to federal authorities to serve out lengthy prison terms.
California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Calls for Legalizing Marijuana
At the California Democratic Party convention Saturday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for marijuana legalization & described the war on drugs...
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NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid
Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said Tuesday “For about 40 years, we've decided that [prison] is how we solve almost every problem, whether it’s homelessness..
Celebrities Urge Obama Forward on Drug, Sentencing Reform
A coalition of more than 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected officials, and civil rights and civil liberties advocates urged President Obama to reform...
TheFix.com: “The Drug Warriors Cashing In on Pot Prohibition”
Cannabis prohibition: “Former public servants, from DEA chiefs to cops, are using their clout to lobby for drug policies that enrich themselves.” The war...
As NYC Pot Busts Continue, New York Punts on Marijuana Reform
People, almost all of them young people of color, are being arrested at the rate of a thousand a week in NYC for marijuana possession "in public view"...
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Seattle Mayor: Marijuana Legalization "Positive Change"
Mayor Mike McGinn said: “Look at marijuana legalization. We’re now going to see businesses fighting for market share, instead of gangs fighting for turf."
Support Our POWs During this Year’s Medical Marijuana Week
Every year during medical marijuana week, I like to sit down and consider what I’m thankful about in the medical cannabis movement.
Senator Leahy: After Spending Billions on the War on Drugs…Well, We’ve Lost
The Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the most senior member of the Senate, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) again spoke out against the War on Drugs
US Has 330,000 Drug Offenders in Prison
Of the 1.6 million prisoners in America, some 330,000 were doing time for drug offenses, including nearly drug offenders 95,000 doing federal time....
Help Needed: Release Five Lifetime Marijuana Prisoners
A law office filed a legal petition with the federal government seeking clemency for 5 elderly prisoners serving lifetime sentences for cannabis-only...
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Sir Richard Branson: War on Drugs a Trillion-Dollar Failure
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition...
First Non-Violent Drug Offender Released Under CA Prop 36
It didn't take long. Voters in California last month approved Prop 36, which amends CA's draconian Three Strikes law to require that a third strike...