Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, last week blocked the release of $95 million in funds destined to help Mexico prosecute its war...
In a great article on policymic, Anthony Papastrat examines the number of people incarcerated for marijuana during 2011 and the costs associated with housing them. The punch...
As the country moves forward in accepting marijuana as medicine and as a safer recreational choice than alcohol, the serious lack of objective scientific research on marijuana...
The Obama administration released its Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal Wednesday, including its 2014 federal drug budget. Pundits and politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly pronounced...
The automatic budget cuts set for Friday would have countless effects, but could actually hinder the federal drug war. If allowed to occur, the cuts would cost the...
Marijuana reform is a hot topic of conversation in state legislatures around the country, and not just in traditionally liberal states like California and Rhode Island. In...
Only 35% of Americans support GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan’s budget plan versus 50% of Americans who want marijuana legalized. You’d have to go back to 2003 to...
It seems as if Colorado’s MMJ Enforcement Division took too many bong hits when they made their “Things we Need to Enforce” list, because now they have more fancy vehicles than...
CAMP (The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting), California’s 28-year-old marijuana eradication program that has destroyed millions of pot plants in public and private wilderness areas is no more. It is...
With our private sector now officially falling short of “just fine,” the failed war on marijuana is something both Obama and Congress should revisit. Squandering precious federal...
