The Arizona Department of Health Services has received 486 applications to open medical marijuana dispensaries. Only 126 dispensary licenses will be awarded in Arizona initially, one for each...
The New Hampshire Senate failed to overturn Governor John Lynch’s veto of Senate Bill 409 yesterday. The final vote was 13 for overturning the veto vs 10 against. A 2/3...
The full Chicago City Council is expected to review and vote on Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s marijuana decriminalization plan today. Read more at Chicago Tribune.
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...
Up host Chris Hayes and his guests, including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and comedian Michael Ian Black, discuss the surprising politics of the debate over...
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,...
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...
Mike Riggs at Reason writes about an important decision recently handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals but the article also gives an excellent example...
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...
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...
05:01pm After hours of querulous questioning, the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee voted 13-1 to send Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s marijuana decriminalization to the full council 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...
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 –...
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...
04:53pm New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) Thursday made good on his threat to veto a medical marijuana bill, Senate Bill 409, approved by the legislature. Lynch...
Why is it that every red-blooded Republican LOVES Ronald Reagan? Maybe it was because he just looked the part of the President? Well for the non-believers, here...
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...
