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...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has stated although he doesn’t personally believe cannabis should be legalized, the current penalties are overly harsh, and he supports I-502 & Amendment...
Last Wednesday, three men convicted of drug related charges were hanged in prison in the Iranian city of Isfahan, state media reported. The prisoners died unnamed; only...
Montana medical marijuana cultivator Chris Williams is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in what has become a widely publicized case, illustrating the Obama Administration’s aggressive federal enforcement...
A San Diegan was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for creating two medical marijuana dispensaries as a front for a multimillion-dollar drug dealing operation, the...
An Indonesian court Tuesday sentenced a British woman to death for trying to smuggle about 10 pounds of cocaine into the resort island of Bali, the anti-death...
State Sen. Constance Johnson has filed separate bills to establish a medical marijuana program in Oklahoma and to reduce the penalties for possession of small amounts of...
Nathaniel Harshman, now only 20 years old, has been sentenced to 5 years for working on a 477-plant marijuana grow operation in Alaska in 2011. This is...
Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), the powerful head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for the end of mandatory minimum sentencing at both the state and federal levels...
Former Univ. of Montana quarterback Jason Washington is the latest casualty in the Obama Administration’s war on medical marijuana. Missoula, MT — Montana medical marijuana patient, cultivator and former...
Today’s New York Times includes a feature story about California medical marijuana provider Matthew Davies, who federal prosecutors are pressuring to accept a five-year mandatory minimum as a plea agreement. Federal authorities...
Montana caregivers continue to get sentenced in federal court, an Arizona lawmaker wants a redo on medical marijuana, an Illinois bill is delayed, and the back and...
Drug traffickers and other death row inmates in Singapore can now seek review of their death sentences after changes to the island city-state’s mandatory death sentence went...
This month will see a number of patients sentenced, sent to prison despite compliance with state medical marijuana laws. Fallout from the Obama Administration’s aggressive federal enforcement...
The Texas state legislature will begin debating House Bill (HB) 184 , which calls for marijuana possession of 1 oz. or less to become a Class C misdemeanor...
Cannabis Prohibition is ending in America (and likely soon around the world too). It is not going to end without prolonged legal, political and regulatory battles. This...
At the dawn of the cannabis legalization epoch that was ushered in on election night when the commonsense-minded voters of both Colorado and Washington elected to end...
02:14pm It didn’t take long. Voters in California last month approved Proposition 36, which amends the state’s draconian Three Strikes law to require that a third...
by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, November 30, 2012 Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with...
Members of the NORML Legal Committee (NLC) have filed a friend-of-the-court amicus brief in the case of Commonwealth v. Antonio Pacheco, scheduled for oral argument in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) at 9:00...
