Category: Needless Victims

Responding to growing public support for medical use of marijuana, the House of Delegates approved legislation Monday that would allow specially licensed physicians in Maryland to recommend the...

A high school counselor enlisted two students to uncover drug sales on campus by buying marijuana, and when one of the students was arrested, school officials tried...

“Your baby doesn’t need to be subjected to marijuana,” an officer says, in an audio recording. The couple have legal prescriptions for the marijuana in their home. “I told...

Stories of children suffering rare forms of epilepsy and other ailments weren’t enough Wednesday to convince an Iowa board to recommend a medical marijuana program for the...

On Thursday, Michelle Alexander, author of the bestselling and galvanizing The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness sat down with poet/activist Asha Bandele of the Drug Policy...

America’s prisons are dangerously overcrowded, and the war on drugs is mainly to blame. Over 50 percent of inmates currently in federal prison are there for drug offenses,...

Delta 9, a medical marijuana compassion club in Tempe, Arizona, was busted for providing medicine to members.

Thousands of veterans and other medical marijuana patients nationwide use marijuana to treat symptoms of PTSD, but the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) is blocking researchers who...

New Canadian medical marijuana laws go into effect April 1, and many patients may be forced to defy them or go without medication.

As more and more Americans support ending marijuana prohibition and an increasing number of states consider marijuana policy reform legislation, it is sometimes easy to forget that...

A man in Ireland walked into the Irish police (gardai) station with a small amount of cannabis and requested to be booked for possession. While many of...

Presente.org has alerted CourageCampaign.org – which in turn alerted San Diego ASA – to a shameful racist attack in San Diego. With just weeks until a special...

For the second time, activists were detained at Six Flags in Arlington, Texas for wearing pro-marijuana shirts.

Canadian medical cannabis patient and cannabis writer Mamakind is on a hunger strike, fighting for her right to use a vaporizer in the hospital.

Conor Friedersdorf gives a great explanation of why it is immoral to cage humans for smoking marijuana.

Old Hippie discusses the aggression against the cannabis movement, from within as well as from outsiders, and the money that motivates the aggressors.

Ladybud reports the ongoing story of Dahlia, a little girl with brain cancer who is relocating to Colorado for medical marijuana.

I have to say that I am just perplexed by the amount of force and energy that the NYPD (under Mayor Bloomberg’s directive) uses to crack down...

A North Carolinian man that openly grows his own medical cannabis alerted law enforcement of his activities in defiance of prohibition.

Last week, a banking meeting took place in Washington DC regarding regulations that currently exist that make it difficult for medical marijuana business to have normal access to banking...