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...
02:59pm A CBS News poll released this week has support for marijuana legalization at an all-time high, with as many Americans now saying it should be legal as...
United States Representatives have introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress — House Bill 6606, The Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act of 2012 — to amend the US Controlled...
03:14pm A new Angus-Reid Public Opinion poll has majorities favoring marijuana legalization in both Canada and the US. According to the poll, 57% of Canadians and 54% of...
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...
A brick of marijuana that Border Patrol agents found in a boy’s pants while frisking him illegally should have been excluded as evidence, the 9th Circuit ruled...
Earlier this month, an overwhelming sixty-three percent of Massachusetts voters approved Ballot Question 3 and, in so doing, became the country’s 18th state to pass a medical marijuana law. Massachusetts is...
03:37pm DVD Review: Code of the West, directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen (2012, Racing Horse Films, 71 minutes) In Code of the West, Emmy nominated filmmaker Rebecca Richman...
05:43pm Chris Williams is sitting in a private federal prison on the Montana prairie these days awaiting sentencing. If the federal government has its way, he...
Both Federal and Mendocino County officials declined to comment on a federal subpoena for financial records regarding the county’s medical marijuana ordinance, a local paper reported. Under...
04:16pm Arizona marks a medical marijuana first, there’s an ominous move by the feds in Northern California, Illinois is considering a medical marijuana bill, and that’s...
Forum and survey will help gauge patient needs and guide their participation in new program District voters overwhelmingly passed the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative...
03:12pm There seem to be some problems with drug task force leadership in Mississippi, and a Michigan cop gets in trouble for treating the forfeiture shed...
Forfeiture proceedings against a medical marijuana dispensary should be stayed while a federal judge considers claims that such regulation belongs to the states, the city of Oakland...
I have an op/ed today online at The Hill.com’s influential Congress blog (“Where lawmakers come to blog”). Read an excerpt from it below: Voters say ‘No’ to...
The scent of reform and rational marijuana policies must be drifting across the Rockies into distant areas of the country, as today the Indiana State Police Chief...
11:49am Over at Flex Your Rights, we’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how to protect your rights when you’re living in a college dorm....
A medical marijuana dispensary has renewed pleas to stop its landlord from upending the business amid federal forfeiture proceedings. Harborside Health Center defended its Oakland location last...
03:24pm Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten told parliament last week that the government intends to classify marijuana with a THC content of 15% or more as a Class...
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