This Friday, Philly NORML and The Panic Hour return to Independence Mall in Philadelphia for the seventh installment in their monthly protests against marijuana prohibition. From the organizers: “After six successful...
ANIMAL has a longstanding policy to not use the word “marijuana.” Cannabis? Sure. Weed? Definitely. Pot? Not my term of choice, but hey, it turns up sometimes....
Our friends at High Times scored a really provocative and informative interview with Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, where Mr. Fox demonstrates both a wide range of knowledge about...
In a great article on policymic, Anthony Papastrat examines the number of people incarcerated for marijuana during 2011 and the costs associated with housing them. The punch...
The Executioner’s Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created, by George Grayson and Samuel Logan (2013, Transaction Publishers, 338 pp., $28.89...
The so-called Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) has been a prolific, yet impotent, anti-marijuana propaganda machine since its inception in the mid 1980′s under President...
The leader of Mexico’s brutal Zetas organization has been captured in northern Mexico, authorities announced. According to the Associated Press: Trevino Morales, 40, was captured by Mexican Marines...
As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, doesn’t think kids and teens are going to start using marijuana more frequently if the...
Leadership is defined by dictionary.com as “the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group,” “ability to lead [defined as “to conduct...
Andrea Sanderlin, a suburban mother of two accused of running a sophisticated $3 million marijuana enterprise out of a New York warehouse was slapped with a federal indictment...
A new Centers for Disease Control study has found the US rate of tobacco usage dropping again: ATLANTA (AP) — Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government...
Despite 40 years and $1 trillion-plus of taxpayer money spent trying to stop – not robbery, not rape, not murder, not even shoplifting – but mostly trying...
Sensible BC has already auto-dialed nearly 1.4-million households in the province trying to drum up support and is now set to unveil a new billboard in West Vancouver...
On May 18th, The Panic Hour and PhillyNORML held “Smoke Down Prohibition V” in a free speech zone near the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, PA. As the name suggests, this was...
by Sabrina Fendrick, Director of Women’s Outreach, May 30, 2013 As more women are drawn to Humboldt County’s marijuana trade and off-grid lifestyle, a local battered-women’s shelter...
For nearly a century, the United States has been one of the fiercest advocates and practitioners of marijuana prohibition in the world. At the height of the...
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 29 from 2:00-3:30 PM (eastern), the Brookings Institute is holding its second in a series of public policy review panels examining the ever-evolving changes of...
