Tag: war on drugs

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July 1, 2013
07/01/2013
Top Ten Business Benefits of Legalization

Top Ten Business Benefits of Legalization

In their June edition, Sativa Magazine took an in-depth look at the effects of legalization on businesses with their article The Top Ten Business Benefits of Legalization....
By: Mercedys
June 25, 2013
06/25/2013
In Prison for Marijuana Possession, Texas Woman Becomes Victim of “Rape Camp”

In Prison for Marijuana Possession, Texas Woman Becomes Victim of “Rape Camp”

Arrested for possession of marijuana, a woman is placed in a Texas county jail while awaiting her day in court; once there she is repeatedly brutalized and...
June 24, 2013
06/24/2013
Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border (INFOGRAPHIC)

Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border (INFOGRAPHIC)

Huff Post has a great infographic showing “the War on Drugs is clearly a war on weed.” Marijuana was a staggering 99.5% of the Border Patrol’s drug...
June 12, 2013
06/12/2013
Marc Emery Released from Solitary Confinement

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 taking pictures of his prison music band...
June 10, 2013
06/10/2013
Marijuana Is the Gateway Drug

Marijuana Is the Gateway Drug

Marijuana is the gateway drug … the gateway to health. Despite all the reefer madness propaganda of the 80’s and 90’s, marijuana is not public enemy #1. It...
June 10, 2013
06/10/2013
Marc Emery in Solitary Confinement in US Prison

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 for selling pot seeds over the Internet,...
May 31, 2013
05/31/2013
Cannabis Laws Take Another Victim – Yanira Maldonado

Cannabis Laws Take Another Victim – Yanira Maldonado

Yanira Maldonado had no idea when she got on the bus to come back home that she would be charged with smuggling nearly 12 pounds of cannabis...
May 24, 2013
05/24/2013
First US Elected Official, Bill Rosendahl, Openly Using Medical Marijuana

First US Elected Official, Bill Rosendahl, Openly Using Medical Marijuana

On 5/21/2013, Bill Rosendahl, a Councilman in the City of Los Angeles, made history as the first elected Official openly admitting to using medical marijuana. Bill Rosendahl...
By: Mercedys
May 14, 2013
05/14/2013
NJ Senate Candidate Smokes a Joint for Drug War Victims

NJ Senate Candidate Smokes a Joint for Drug War Victims

Don DeZarn, libertarian candidate for the New Jersey Senate, smoked a joint in Veteran’s Park in Hamilton, New Jersey. He said “This is for all my brothers...
May 13, 2013
05/13/2013
Weedist Women: Lauren Vazquez

Weedist Women: Lauren Vazquez

Weedists: Meet Lauren Vazquez “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Lauren Vazquez is the Fired Up Lawyer,...
By: Anna Diaz
May 8, 2013
05/08/2013
Discrimination Jeopardizing Cannabusinesses

Discrimination Jeopardizing Cannabusinesses

Even though cannabusinesses are legal in many parts of the country – for recreational users in Washington and Colorado and medicinal patients in 16 other states –...
By: Mercedys
May 6, 2013
05/06/2013
Obama Says No to Legalizing Marijuana

Obama Says No to Legalizing Marijuana

In a speech in Mexico City on Friday, President Obama shut the door on any possibility that he’ll support efforts in his second-term to legalize certain recreational...
May 1, 2013
05/01/2013
Global Cannabis March Features Three in Oregon

Global Cannabis March Features Three in Oregon

Next Saturday, in over 200 cities worldwide, millions will come together to rally for an end to a failed drug war on cannabis and industrial hemp. Oregonians will...
By: Anna Diaz
April 29, 2013
04/29/2013
New York Times OpDoc: A True Satire Of The War on Some Drugs

New York Times OpDoc: A True Satire Of The War on Some Drugs

While there is nothing genuinely funny about a seventy-five year prohibition on cannabis that has arrested over 25 million cannabis consumers, making fun of the failed policy...
April 17, 2013
04/17/2013
Are We Really “Going Dark”? — The DEA and Apple’s iMessage

Are We Really “Going Dark”? — The DEA and Apple’s iMessage

Special to Drug War Chronicle by Clarence Walker, freelancewriter82@gmail.com When the tech world news web site CNET published excerpts of a leaked DEA memo explaining how, during an investigation, the...
April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
Federal Marijuana Legislation: Stalling Without Support

Federal Marijuana Legislation: Stalling Without Support

Federal Marijuana Legislation Despite growing deregulation of marijuana for both medical and recreational usage, without changes to the federal regulatory structure, individuals acting in accordance with state...
By: Mercedys
April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Calls for Legalizing Marijuana

California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom Calls for Legalizing Marijuana

At the California Democratic Party convention in Sacramento Saturday, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom called for marijuana legalization and described the war on drugs as “an abject failure.”...
April 10, 2013
04/10/2013
Celebrities Urge Obama Forward on Drug, Sentencing Reform

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 Tuesday sent an open letter to President Obama urging him to...
April 5, 2013
04/05/2013
Business Insider: Marijuana Has Won the War on Drugs

Business Insider: Marijuana Has Won the War on Drugs

In his article in Business Insider, Walter Hickey says, “At least when it comes to marijuana, the war on drugs is over.” He cites the state-wide legalization...
March 28, 2013
03/28/2013
Great TV While High: The Corner

Great TV While High: The Corner

You’ve heard of The Wire, but have you seen The Corner? This writer classifies “stoner gold” as a show one can spend an entire night re-watching. Shows that...