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Lawmakers in several states have moved forward with legislative proposals to permit cannabis possessing high quantities of CBD (cannabidiol), but otherwise maintaining criminal prohibitions on the whole plant.
On the CNN website today, Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes: “I am more convinced than ever that it is irresponsible to not provide the best care we can, care that often may involve marijuana. I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.”
For the third year in a row the University of Colorado plans to close its Boulder campus for the upcoming marijuana smokeout.
Travis Irvine shows the history of marijuana, from ancient medicine through prohibition.
I had known that New York, at one point, was an epicenter for cannabis culture. What I didn't know was that cannabis grew, literally, all over New York City in neighborhood lots.
Mike Power describes the failures of prohibition, giving ten reasons why the UK needs drug policy reform.
According to a recent Quinnipiac University Poll, 51% of overall voting Coloradans said that legal marijuana was bad for the state's wholesome image.
Like any Project SAM interview, this one had polished talking points and scare tactics while refusing to answer any questions with authenticity or facts.
The same stale (mostly inaccurate) counter-cannabis arguments have been tossed at us for decades from prohibitionists. The new challenge I put to them is...
Vice President Joe Biden said in a Time interview on Thursday that the Administration supports smarter enforcement, but not outright legalization.
My homeboy Kevin Sabet is at it again. He dropped this tweet about an article on medical marijuana dispensaries and crime, and I salivated:
A federal judge in Brazil ruled that marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional, calling it the result of a backward culture.
Patrick Kennedy, chairman of anti-pot crusading Project SAM, has finally admitted that marijuana is safer than alcohol. He still favors prohibition.
Prohibitionists are crapping themselves in disgust in response to a recent interview President Obama gave wherein he stated that cannabis was safer than alcohol and that prohibition is unscientific and unjust. Uh Oh!
The three books under consideration here address different facets of our drug policy; one tells us how we got here, one explains (at least in part) why we're stuck here, and one offers up suggestions on where we go from here. With apologies to Dickens, it's as if we're seeing the ghosts of drug war past, present, and future.
Michael Bolen encourages politicians and media to stop pretending cannabis prohibition protects kids.
Ladybud profiles The Undergreen Railroad, a new organization forming in response to a need that is becoming more and more common: help in relocating cannabis...
This bit of "truthiness" (to borrow from Master Colbert) comes to us from the people over at Marijuana Anonymous. They ask (then answer) the following question: "Who is a marijuana addict?
