A citizen initiative to repeal the Fort Collins, Colorado ban on medical marijuana dispensaries has collected enough signatures to put it on the November ballot,  read more at Coloradoan.  Lets hope this creates enough drama for another season of American Weed!

Count the Costs has published a detailed 128 page report called ‘The Alternative World Drug Report: Counting The Costs Of The War On Drugs‘ that’s worth a read, or at least a power skim. The report is described: “Launched to coincide with publication of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s 2012 World Drug Report, the Alternative World Drug Report exposes the failure of governments and the UN to assess the extraordinary costs of pursuing a global war on drugs, and calls for UN member states to meaningfully count these costs and explore all the alternatives.”

The New Jersey state Assembly passed a bill on Monday in a 44-30 vote to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. If passed, the bill would...

Jodie Emery, wife of marijuana activist Marc Emery, gave a rousing speech at Toronto’s  ideacity conference on how marijuana prohibition laws are becoming as damaging in Canada as they are in the US.  Read more at Torontoist.

Assembly member Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) postponed a meeting for a Senate committee to vote on Assembly Bill 2312, which would have founded a nine member board tasked with...

CNNMoney asked 20 economists to give Obama and Congress a letter grade on their handling, or there lack of, of the economy.  Read more to find out why both got a D.

Maybe if Obama and Congress gave us the right to smoke a ‘J’, both economists and We The People might upgrade that barely passing D to a more respectable C!

  The Texas Democratic Party recently published their 2012 Texas Democratic Party Platform.  Page 28 of the PDF shows the Texas Democrats formally endorsing marijuana decriminalization: DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA...

Long time marijuana advocate, and weedist in every sense of the word, Snoop Dogg recently released a new video called “Executive Branch.”   It’s a commercial for...

“Famed marijuana smuggler turned tireless pot activist Robert Platshorn (a.k.a. The Black Tuna) has been facing a series of threats from federal parole board officials in recent weeks, seemingly due to his actions as creator of The Silver Tour, which brings a positive message about medical cannabis directly to America’s senior citizens.” Read the full article at High Times and how you can help.

NYT article covers civil lawsuit filed by Legal Aid Society because  “police officers have continued to unlawfully charge New Yorkers with crimes – rather than with non-criminal violations – for low-level marijuana possession.”  It also contains the PDF of the 28 page civil lawsuit.

The Dec 15 2011 Daily Show skit Too Big To Mail lovingly poked fun at the continued dismantling by Congress of the 236 year old United States Postal...

Great article, Prison Nation: Economic reasons to legalize marijuana, on the failed war on drugs and the cost of being a prison nation.  Two of my favorite numbers “The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980” and “it costs an average of $78.95 each day to keep a criminal behind bars.”  Continuing the status quo on the war on drugs is not an option!

A woman in Florida accidentally deposited nearly 2 ounces with her bank slip. Spoiler alert, she found out the bank doesn’t pay interest on marijuana.  See more here.

A marijuana grinder does exactly what the name implies, it grinds up your buds so that they burn evenly.  A grinder simply accomplishes this better than any...

During a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing yesterday, DEA agent Michele Leonhart preferred to squirm and sound much more like South Park’s Mr. Mackey instead of honestly answering the straightforward questions.  Like a broken record, too often her useless reply is “I believe all illegal drugs are bad.”  It does however provide great flashbacks to Mr. Mackey…”And, uh, as for drugs, well, drugs are bad. You shouldn’t do drugs. Okay, that about wraps up my introduction, now uh, are there any questions?”

See the more in-depth analysis at The Raw Story and the video of Rep. Jared Polis (Colorado) grilling her.  Keep up the pressure on the politicians to fight for us this time and end prohibition!

 

 

 

This great pic is making the rounds across social media sites today.  I think both the Mayans and Anonymous may be onto something and true seers!

Economics 101 rightfully drills into business students’ heads that competition is a good thing.  Corporate competition to the consumer should ultimately lead to better products at lower prices....

Jose Guerena, a U.S. Marine veteran who served in the Iraq War was killed in his Tucson, Arizona home, on May 5, 2011, by officers of the...

Public Policy Polling (PPP)’s latest survey shows voters in Washington are in favor of Initiative 502 to legalize marijuana by 13 points, 50% for vs. 37% against.   ...

Times are getting tense for our prohibition overlords with more and more states adopting medical and decriminalization measures as well as a few striving for legalization.  If...