Despite the passage of ballot initiatives in Washington and Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana, “the Drug Enforcement Administration’s enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged,” a DEA...
10:39pm Massachusetts voters Tuesday supported a medical marijuana initiative decisively by a margin of nearly two-to-one, according to partial results Tuesday evening. With half the vote...
In the hot, crowded Hotel Andra in Belltown, I-502 campaign manager Alison Holcomb has just finished an emotional speech to supporters of the movement. And, she declared, “Today,...
01:44am Colorado voters made history Tuesday night, passing a constitutional amendment to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana and becoming the first state in the US to...
In case you didn’t hear, there was an election earlier tonight and the winner is… weed. Both Washington and Colorado passed voter referendums legalizing marijuana. And not...
It’s election day, and whether you’re getting ready to go to the voting booth, getting home from the voting booth, or waiting to see the results, chances...
02:59pm Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History, by James Higdon (2012, Lyons Press, 375 pp., $16.47...
Undoubtedly most all cannabis law reformers’ eyes will be fixated on both the presidential election (a contest between the former leader of Hawaii’s Choom Gang and expert...
Two men facing drug charges cannot exclude surveillance images of their marijuana grow site that police captured without a warrant, a federal judge ruled. Law enforcement installed...
Two weeks ago, five ambulances were called to Manchester High School Central for students suffering drug-use symptoms. Police said one case was a reported overdose likely involving...
Why Election Day Marks the Beginning of the End of Marijuana Prohibition via Alternet.org The criminalization of cannabis is a policy that has been in place federally...
Preventing physician assistants and nurse practitioners from certifying medical cannabis patients burdens doctors and harms access to care, says the Rhode Island Medical Society.
05:09pm Readers of StoptheDrugWar.org know that we’ve supported Initiative 502, a ballot measure to legalize and regulate marijuana in Washington State. I-502 has seen the strongest polling...
National Public Radio’s local Seattle station, KPLU, ran a five-day series on the soon-to-pass I-502 bill. The bill decriminalizes adult use for up to one ounce of...
05:46pm The founder of the flagship medical marijuana center, Harborside Health Center in Oakland, speaks out about how important it is to pass I-502 and how...
Tomorrow is Election Day, and it promises to be the most important election in quite a while for Weedists, whether they be recreational users, medical marijuana patients,...
Arcata, in Humboldt County, California, will vote on Measure I next week, which would impose a 45% tax on households that use three times the amount of power a...
[Editor’s note: Going into Tuesday’s historic vote in six states on legalization and medical cannabis ballot initiatives, one of the last, but not too unsurprising hold out...
Unsurprisingly, the war on marijuana has been waged in the name of ‘the children.’ What message will we send the children if we change our policy on marijuana? Why...
