012, 11:34am The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Danger to America by Ted Galen Carpenter (2012, Cato Institute, 307 pp., $16.57 HB Amazon) Drug War...
012, 07:10pm Harborside is in the news again today. Two weeks ago we noted the premiere (and largest) dispensary had won a battle in state court. Facing threats by federal authorities...
012, 11:21am In some ways, 2012 has been a year of dramatic, exciting change in drug policy, as the edifice of global drug prohibition appears to crumble...
Who knew throwing a cigarette butt out of your car window in Texas (sure it’s littering) would lead to a publicly humiliating body cavity search under the...
During an interview with HuffPo Live yesterday, Newark Mayor and potential gubernatorial candidate Cory Booker made some very strong statements in favor of drug law reform. When asked...
The city of Oakland renewed demands to stay forfeiture proceedings against a local medical marijuana dispensary whose business it defends as a matter of state’s rights. Though...
06:13pm A Memphis police officer was shot and killed early Friday morning during a marijuana raid, and, hours later, a Dallas man was shot and killed...
Delaware Governor Jack Markell says the Obama administration should be more clear about its position on pot, because if the feds won’t pursue medical or recreational users...
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...
10:03pm I have criticized the ease with which some media outlets and even some reformers have accepted the argument made by prohibitionist advocates that courts are certain to...
01:52am The London-based HSBC Group, Europe’s largest banking entity, has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion and pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money...
At least the failed war on cannabis provides never-ending ingenuity to chuckle at: US Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside soup cans inside of larger cans and sealed on...
02:54pm A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, “Obama’s Pot Problem,” missed the mark on the federal preemption question — can the feds shut...
The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary. Harborside Health...
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...
Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed, or tell the DEA and DOJ...
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition; What do we have to...
04:35pm Police officers in Buford, Georgia, shot and killed a man who refused to drop his weapon after they encountered him as they investigated a report...
History was made in Washington on Election night when 55 percent of voters decided in favor of Initiative 502. And at 12am this morning, history was made once again. Today,...
