Special to Drug War Chronicle by Houston-based investigative journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com Part 6 in a series, “Prosecutorial Misconduct and Police Corruption in Drug Cases Across America.” There...
At an undisclosed location in Virginia, a publicity-shy DEA unit is feeding surveillance data from the National Security Agency (NSA), as well as wiretaps, informants, and a...
“The US Department of Justice can — and probably will, if I-502 passes — attempt to challenge Washington’s proposal to regulate the pot industry. They will likely...
On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access Executive Director Steph Sherer discusses her association’s report “What’s the Cost?”, which details the expenses of the federal government’s interference...
By now most medical cannabis activists are aware that several medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state were raided Wednesday. While the federal government continues to raid medical cannabis...
In Costa Mesa, CA on Sunday, July 21, the California Democratic party passed two new resolutions at its executive board meeting. The first of the two dealt with President Obama’s...
When I was in the graduate school portion of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Washington in the Department of Geography, I had an...
Though the feds still routinely reject beer labeling that mentions or depicts cannabis, one Washington brewery has released a “Joint Effort Hemp Ale” throughout the state. Statewide...
Federal prosecutors asked the 9th Circuit to let them pursue charges over a Washington drug-growing operation even though the state decriminalized the manufacture of medical marijuana. Washington...
As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
A federal judge granted Oakland’s request to stay federal forfeiture proceedings against a medical marijuana club while it defends its standing on appeal. The city’s claim that...
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) — the country’s oldest and largest public interest and human rights bar organization — issued a report yesterday addressing the federal government’s flawed policy...
Even though cannabusinesses are legal in many parts of the country – for recreational users in Washington and Colorado and medicinal patients in 16 other states –...
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles mayoral frontrunner and councilman, has been calling on the federal government to reclassify marijuana and finally accept the fact that marijuana has medicinal...
According to Matt Taibbi, in his latest Rolling Stone exposé on the banking and financial industry “Too Big to Jail,” HSBC “helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars...
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...
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...
At a town hall meeting, Rep. Blumenauer stated that he supports marijuana law reform in Oregon, and that the state should treat marijuana the same way it treats...
I introduced the topic of legal interpretative theory here and began the discussion of one of the views, Textualism, here. I have explained that victories in Cannabis reform are threatened by Living...
