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February 28, 2013
02/28/2013
Blumenauer Pushes States Rights’ Medical Marijuana Bill in Congress

Blumenauer Pushes States Rights’ Medical Marijuana Bill in Congress

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) Monday gave a public coming out event for a bill designed to stop federal government interference with medical marijuana patients and providers in...
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February 27, 2013
02/27/2013
Silver Lining: Automatic Budget Cuts Would Hinder Drug War

Silver Lining: Automatic Budget Cuts Would Hinder Drug War

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...
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February 27, 2013
02/27/2013
Caltech Prof: If All Science Were Run Like Marijuana Research, Creationists Would Control Paleontology

Caltech Prof: If All Science Were Run Like Marijuana Research, Creationists Would Control Paleontology

In the face of obstacles to marijuana research from both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology and...
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February 22, 2013
02/22/2013
UMass Professor Blocked From Growing Marijuana For Medical Research

UMass Professor Blocked From Growing Marijuana For Medical Research

Although Massachusetts is now the 18th state to allow medical marijuana, an agriculture professor at UMass Amherst who studies medicinal plants has been trying for over ten...
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February 8, 2013
02/08/2013
DEA, Police Raid Three Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Plus Home in San Bernardino

DEA, Police Raid Three Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Plus Home in San Bernardino

Federal drug agents, local police, city attorney’s investigators and code enforcement officers fanned out across San Bernardino on Wednesday, raiding a chain of medical marijuana dispensaries and a...
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February 7, 2013
02/07/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.02.06)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.02.06)

The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a key case on whether localities can ban dispensaries, and medical marijuana bills died in two Midwest states, and...
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February 1, 2013
02/01/2013
Motel Case Marks a Victory Against Federal Forfeiture Abuse

Motel Case Marks a Victory Against Federal Forfeiture Abuse

In a major victory for property rights advocates, a federal judge in Massachusetts last week struck down a scheme by federal prosecutors to seize a motel owned...
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January 30, 2013
01/30/2013
Nebraska – UNL to Host Marijuana Legalization Debate

Nebraska – UNL to Host Marijuana Legalization Debate

The University of Nebraska – Lincoln is scheduled to host a marijuana legalization debate February 7th, at 7:30 pm. Steve Hager, long-time editor of High Times, will face...
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January 25, 2013
01/25/2013
Marijuana Legalization Would Promote Drug Use, DEA Contends

Marijuana Legalization Would Promote Drug Use, DEA Contends

Recent state efforts to legalize marijuana pose a challenge for the Drug Enforcement Administration, because they would increase marijuana’s availability and promote drug use, the DEA said...
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January 23, 2013
01/23/2013

Federal Court Denies Petition to Reschedule Marijuana

In a 28-page decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has denied petitioners’ request to overturn the July 2011 denial by the...
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January 17, 2013
01/17/2013
Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?

Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?

special to Drug War Chronicle by investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com A case that began with reports of suspicious activity in northeast Wisconsin forest land last spring may...
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January 10, 2013
01/10/2013
DEA Raids Three LA Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

DEA Raids Three LA Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

DEA agents raided three Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries Wednesday afternoon, according to a preliminary report from Americans for Safe Access California director Don Duncan. More details were not...
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January 9, 2013
01/09/2013
US Drug Czar Unloads on Medical Marijuana in San Francisco

US Drug Czar Unloads on Medical Marijuana in San Francisco

It’s legal to use medical marijuana for certain ailments in California — but that doesn’t mean Gil Kerlikowske has to like it.
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January 3, 2013
01/03/2013
Medical Marijuana Groups File Brief in Support of Mendocino Legal Battle with Feds

Medical Marijuana Groups File Brief in Support of Mendocino Legal Battle with Feds

Three medical marijuana groups have teamed up to support Mendocino County officials in their effort to fight a sweeping federal subpoena filed in October, seeking “any and...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

ASA: Medical Cannabis Year in Review 2012

This is the time of year when I take some time to reflect over the past twelve months and prepare myself for the opportunities that lay ahead...
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December 14, 2012
12/14/2012
Colorado Attorney General Suthers Says He Will Respect Marijuana Measure

Colorado Attorney General Suthers Says He Will Respect Marijuana Measure

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, an ardent opponent of marijuana legalization, said Wednesday he would respect the will of the voters on Amendment 64 but cast doubt...
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December 12, 2012
12/12/2012
Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption

06:02pm The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, “On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans.” The author of...
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December 11, 2012
12/11/2012
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media

02:54pm A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, “Obama’s Pot Problem,” missed the mark on the federal preemption question — can the feds shut...
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December 10, 2012
12/10/2012
Obama’s Pot Problem

Obama’s Pot Problem

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed, or tell the DEA and DOJ...
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December 6, 2012
12/06/2012
$1.5B Worth of Marijuana Confiscated in Appalachia (Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia)

$1.5B Worth of Marijuana Confiscated in Appalachia (Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia)

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies confiscated more than $1.5 billion worth of marijuana this year in Appalachia, a region where widespread unemployment may be enticing...
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