BET provides a great post with insights and supporting statistics on the racial disparity in marijuana busts and how it paints a clear picture of two different Americas:...
04:46pm In a Congressionally mandated annual report to the US Sentencing Commission on the operation of federal sentencing guidelines, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said continuing increases...
Soon you will be able to grow your very own medical cannabis garden in Tacoma, Washington, as long as you don’t flaunt it, advertise it or draw complaints...
NORML is spearheading a mail campaign to the U.S. Parole Commission who has prohibited Robert Platshorn from both criticizing the now unpopular government prohibition policies and from educating willing...
San Diego, CA – The San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s largest medical cannabis advocacy group, working with LGBT activism group Canvass for...
Tuscon Citizen reports that the Arizona Department of Health Services has received petitions to expand the medical marijuana program to include treatment of sleeping disorders and skin...
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is rejecting a call from 13 Arizona county attorneys that the state health department stop issuing medical marijuana cards and to not license medical marijuana dispensaries...
Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, a longtime proponent of legalizing pot nationwide, has had his own medical marijuana prescription for a decade, relying on the drug to...
White House Drug Control Policy Director R. Gil Kerlikowske shot down a question Monday about softening views on marijuana policy, saying the administration believes that neither “legalization”...
San Francisco, CA — As two city-permitted dispensaries are shut down today after 9 years of service to thousands of medical marijuana patients, a coalition calling itself San Francisco...
Americans For Safe Access has launched Camp Wakeupobama in an effort to mobilize medical cannabis supporters into a formidable voting bloc to be courted in the 2012 POTUS election....
The legality of selling marijuana on Craigslist under Prop 215 in California is being hotly debated. Read more about these murky legal waters at The Press Democrat.
03:26pm A decade after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) filed its petition seeking to have marijuana moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the federal courts will...
The Irish Independent reports that Young Fine Gael, the youth wing of Ireland’s biggest political party, is pushing for the legalization of medical marijuana. The Munster Regional...
Oklahoma Senator Constance Johnson (D) has tirelessly introduced a medicinal marijuana bill every year since she was first elected in 2005, but has yet to receive a hearing in...
Oregon collected more than $7.5 million in fees from medical marijuana cards between October 2011 and June 2012 after they doubled the annual fee for Oregon Medical Marijuana Program...
Sarah Eyre at xoJane writes on the unwarranted social stigma that mothers can’t responsibly use marijuana to relax in the evening but it’s acceptable to drink wine...