In a milestone that will no doubt go largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, today marks the 75th anniversary of the enactment of federal marijuana prohibition. On...
03:45am Coca cultivation in Peru increased again last year, up 5.2% over 2010, according to the 2011 coca monitoring survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs...
Libertarian Party POTUS nominee Gary Johnson endorsed the current effort to put a constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana on the Florida ballot in 2014. Will it...
Since the mid-1990s, the price of outdoor-grown marijuana has plummeted from more than $5,000 a pound to less than $2,000, and even as low as $800. Economics...
Forbes covers the federal government’s war on medical marijuana: “From the constant threat of raids and civil asset forfeiture, medical marijuana dispensaries also have to contend with payment...
Starting today, the new Connecticut medical marijuana law takes effect. The state Department of Consumer Protection will make medical marijuana applications available online.
Five medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court next week, highlighting the human cost of the federal government’s intolerance for state medical marijuana...
Here’s a video from Russ Belville speaking on behalf of the Political Action Committee (PAC) Oregonians for Law Reform (www.oregonlawreform.com). Nothing we haven’t heard before, but we hope...
A Massachusetts chemist, Annie Dookhan, who tested more than 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants over nine years has admitted to faking drug sample results, according...
The Human Collective, located at 11509 SW Pacific Highway in Tigard, Oregon, is the fourth provider targeted in a series of Oregon medical marijuana raids. At around 9am...
06:19pm The Arkansas Supreme Court rejected a bid on Thursday to keep the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act off the November ballot. That means voters there will have the...
12:51pm A little more than a month out from Election Day, Washington state’s I-502 marijuana legalization, regulation, and taxation initiative looks to be well-positioned to actually win at...
07:56pm We’re a little more than a month from election day. Here’s what’s going on with the state-level initiatives. California Last Thursday, LA County DA candidates gave...
06:51pm Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly session saw not one, not two, but three Latin American heads of state call on it to promote debate on...
Rep Barney Frank (D-MA) talks to CNN’s Erin Burnett on his support for marijuana reform in this 3 minute segment. He makes many great points from the racist...
03:27am The DEA strikes again in Los Angeles, and the feds are moving to eliminate dispensaries in downtown LA. But the push-back against the crackdown continues....
State ballot initiatives aimed at legalizing pot pose a new challenge to marijuana prohibition. If any of these ballot initiatives pass, it might be the most consequential...
The ‘No On 64: Wrong for Colorado’ campaign is using the same old Reefer Madness misinformation. This Weedist series is dedicated to stopping the misinformation [~3 meg...
