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July 12, 2012
07/12/2012
Video: Harborside Health Center Press Conference July 12 2012

Video: Harborside Health Center Press Conference July 12 2012

Below is a 67 minute mobile video of this morning’s 9am press conference in response to the Obama administration’s latest assault on the Harborside Health Center, which...
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July 11, 2012
07/11/2012
How to Call Michele Leonhart and Ask Why the DEA Ignores Science On Marijuana

How to Call Michele Leonhart and Ask Why the DEA Ignores Science On Marijuana

Check out this handy page at Firedoglake, which provides the DEA’s phone number and a sample script to use when asking how DEA Chief Michele Leonhart maintains her...
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July 11, 2012
07/11/2012
DEA To Legalize Natural THC, But Only For Big Pharma

DEA To Legalize Natural THC, But Only For Big Pharma

Marijuana.com reports the DEA is in overdrive to get the THC cannabinoid reclassified to a Schedule III substance so Pharma can legally crank out naturally derived THC pills.
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July 10, 2012
07/10/2012
Sorry I’m Illegal

Sorry I’m Illegal

We love how this image points out the irony of the prohibition of cannabis that has perpetuated from the United States under major corporate and political interests....
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July 9, 2012
07/09/2012
Video: The Young Turks Shreds DEA For Equating Dead Children With Winning War On Drugs

Video: The Young Turks Shreds DEA For Equating Dead Children With Winning War On Drugs

The Young Turks Network shreds Drug Enforcement Agency Chief Michele Leonhart for saying “It may seem contradictory, but the unfortunate level of violence is a sign of success in...
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July 9, 2012
07/09/2012
3 Accounting Tricks the Obama Administration Uses to Hide the Cost of the Drug War

3 Accounting Tricks the Obama Administration Uses to Hide the Cost of the Drug War

Check out Mike Rigg’s detailed article at Reason on how the Obama administration finds clever ways to cook the drug war books, including funding the attack on industrial hemp...
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July 6, 2012
07/06/2012
17 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana

17 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana

Check out the cool slideshow at Esquire Magazine called “The Best Reasons to Legalize Marijuana.”  It lists 17 reasons with gems such as “about half of the...
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July 6, 2012
07/06/2012
War On Drugs is “The Worst Bad Solution”

War On Drugs is “The Worst Bad Solution”

Don Winslow writes a wonderfully stinging piece on the utter failure that is the War on Drugs in America with its destructive and checkered history.  Check out the “The...
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July 5, 2012
07/05/2012
Medical Marijuana Update

Medical Marijuana Update

07:38pm California continues to have conniptions over medical marijuana, a scientific review finds marijuana’s Schedule I status “untenable,” and much, much more: National On Monday, the Open...
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July 3, 2012
07/03/2012
Government-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA’s Classification of Marijuana

Government-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA’s Classification of Marijuana

A must read at The Raw Story; A government-sponsored study concludes that marijuana provides relief to some chronic pain sufferers and that more clinical trials are desperately needed, utterly...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

What Would Marijuana As a Schedule II Drug Mean?

    Senator Perry B. Clark ( D-Louisville) is scheduled to hold a press conference at 2pm EDT on Thursday, July 5 to introduce  the Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical...
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June 27, 2012
06/27/2012
Fewer DEA Agents For Greater Economic Growth?

Fewer DEA Agents For Greater Economic Growth?

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...
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June 26, 2012
06/26/2012
A Wrong Reading of the Right Ruling

A Wrong Reading of the Right Ruling

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...
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June 21, 2012
06/21/2012
DEA Agent Prefers to Sound More Like Mr Mackey

DEA Agent Prefers to Sound More Like Mr Mackey

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...
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