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March 16, 2015
03/16/2015
NYPD Commish Blames Cannabis for City’s Homicide Rate

NYPD Commish Blames Cannabis for City’s Homicide Rate

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton recently took to the podium and directly blamed marijuana for a jump in the city’s homicide rate.
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March 2, 2015
03/02/2015
New Study Supports What We All Knew: Cannabis Is the Safest Drug

New Study Supports What We All Knew: Cannabis Is the Safest Drug

A study recently came out backing up what pro-cannabis advocates have known (and been screaming at naysayers) for decades: cannabis is safer than booze, tobacco and other...
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February 2, 2015
02/02/2015
New View on Addiction: Compassion, Not Isolation

New View on Addiction: Compassion, Not Isolation

The revolutionary idea? Addiction is not caused by substances, rather, it is caused by isolation.
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October 13, 2014
10/13/2014
Reefer Madness: 20 Year Study Likens Cannabis to Heroin

Reefer Madness: 20 Year Study Likens Cannabis to Heroin

For every article that comes out trying to lambast cannabis, I can find plenty more that show how cannabis alone has saved a life, helped with a...
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October 6, 2014
10/06/2014
Resigning AG Holder Open to Cannabis Rescheduling

Resigning AG Holder Open to Cannabis Rescheduling

Departing Attorney General, Eric Holder, is showing greater and more direct support for rescheduling cannabis than just about any other official I can think of.
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September 22, 2014
09/22/2014
New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

New Drug Use Data Spoils Prohibitionist Propaganda

While cannabis use in the general population has showed a steady increase (unsurprisingly in our softening cannabis culture), it has leveled off among teen users.
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August 11, 2014
08/11/2014
Heroin Saves Woman’s Life

Heroin Saves Woman’s Life

A German woman has emigrated to Switzerland where she can get government supplied synthetic heroin that, she claims, is the reason she has been able to regain...
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July 2, 2014
07/02/2014
West Virginia’s Unevolved Approach to Cannabis

West Virginia’s Unevolved Approach to Cannabis

Marijuana prosecutions, in correlation with a softening national perception, are falling across the country. However, this is not true in every corner of America. Hancock county, West...
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May 20, 2014
05/20/2014
DEA Even More Reliant on Fear in the Age of Legalization

DEA Even More Reliant on Fear in the Age of Legalization

DEA Director, Michele Leonhart, is back at it again, spreading fear and incomplete stories in an attempt to bring back the DEA’s Golden Goose: Cannabis Prohibition! While...
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May 19, 2014
05/19/2014
Zohydro ER Approval Exposes Federal Hypocrisy

Zohydro ER Approval Exposes Federal Hypocrisy

This month, newly FDA-approved, crazy-strong painkiller Zohydro ER is set to be released to market. Commonly referred to as “heroin in a bottle,” Zohyrdo ER has received staunch opposition from...
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April 9, 2014
04/09/2014
Mexican Marijuana Farmers Make Switch to Heroin as Pot Prices Fall

Mexican Marijuana Farmers Make Switch to Heroin as Pot Prices Fall

Mexican marijuana farmers in the remote valleys of the northern Sierra Madre have begun to harvest opium poppies instead and distribute cheap $4 heroin to many rural...
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April 8, 2014
04/08/2014
Maine House and Senate to Vote on Putting Marijuana Legalization Before State Voters

Maine House and Senate to Vote on Putting Marijuana Legalization Before State Voters

Recently, Gov. LePage introduced a bill, LD 1811, to crack down on heroin and cocaine trafficking. While we disagree with his approach (doubling-down on the War on...
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April 7, 2014
04/07/2014
Eric Holder Would Be ‘Glad to Work With Congress’ to Reschedule Marijuana

Eric Holder Would Be ‘Glad to Work With Congress’ to Reschedule Marijuana

Under the federal Controlled Substances Act, the attorney general has the authority to “remove any drug or other substance from the schedules if he finds that the...
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April 4, 2014
04/04/2014
Guatemalan President Will Present Plan to Legalize Marijuana, Opium Production

Guatemalan President Will Present Plan to Legalize Marijuana, Opium Production

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Wednesday his country could present a plan before year’s end to legalize the production of marijuana and opium poppies. His comments...
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March 3, 2014
03/03/2014
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Officially Dead of Accidental OD

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Officially Dead of Accidental OD

News broke last Friday that Phillip Seymour Hoffman officially died of an accidental drug overdose, something that is physically impossible to do with cannabis. “According to the...
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February 26, 2014
02/26/2014
Russia’s Drug Czar Spouts Pure Reefer Madness, Rules Out Cannabis Legalization

Russia’s Drug Czar Spouts Pure Reefer Madness, Rules Out Cannabis Legalization

Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), recently spouted some pure, Grade A cannabis reefer madness in an interview with the Interfax news agency. The “medical...
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July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
Nevada Medical Marijuana Users Still Worry About DUI

Nevada Medical Marijuana Users Still Worry About DUI

Nevada medical marijuana users are concerned as the state’s dispensaries open for business in 2014 that they could easily violate Nevada’s DUI standard; driving with more than 2...
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June 24, 2013
06/24/2013
Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border (INFOGRAPHIC)

Marijuana Accounts for Vast Majority of Drug Seizures on Mexican Border (INFOGRAPHIC)

Huff Post has a great infographic showing “the War on Drugs is clearly a war on weed.” Marijuana was a staggering 99.5% of the Border Patrol’s drug...
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June 7, 2013
06/07/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.06.05)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.06.05)

It’s judges gone wild! Plus sticky-fingered narcs, lying narcs, crooked deputies, and more! Let’s get to it: In Philadelphia, a Philadelphia police officer was arrested May 23 for stealing...
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March 4, 2013
03/04/2013
Norway Wants to Decriminalize Heroin Smoking

Norway Wants to Decriminalize Heroin Smoking

The Norwegian government said Friday it wants to decriminalize the smoking of heroin as a harm reduction measure, Agence-France Presse reported. Smoking heroin is less dangerous than injecting it,...
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