A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage...
A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin...
The Denver Police Department recently held a one-hour ask me anything session on reddit, and so many questions were asked about marijuana that the department decided to...
013 Canada’s police chiefs are ready to quit arresting people for marijuana possession. Meeting in Winnipeg over the weekend, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police passed a resolution...
013 Four decades after President Richard Nixon ushered in the modern war on drugs, fewer than one out of 20 Americans think it is being won, according...
On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access’ Executive Director Steph Sherer details the last and oldest obstacle to regulate dispensaries in California: police lobbyists. Ever since medical...
Lazarat is a small mountain village in Albania, and one that police no longer visit. 90% of the village’s 7,000 people grow an estimated 500 tons of...
This weekend at Hempfest, the Seattle Police Department will be giving away bags of chips. The chips will have stickers on them reminding Hempfest attendees that while...
Medical marijuana wars continue in California, a Michigan town gets intrusive, Nevada prepares to rake in the dough from dispensaries, and Washington patients organize in the face...
There’s trouble down South, and more out-of-control NYPD narcs cost the taxpayers. Let’s get to it: In New York City, NYPD narcs run amok in Queens have cost...
San Diego County took two little children away from their parents for a year, and lied about it, because the father used medical marijuana on the advice...
Heavily redacted Border Patrol records deprived an alleged marijuana smuggler of his right to challenge the reliability of a drug-sniffing dog, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. Jonathan...
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, by Radley Balko (2013, Public Affairs Press, 382 pp., $18.57 HB Amazon) Whatever happened to Officer...
The mere presence of users’ medical marijuana recommendations at a grow site did not immunize the crop from seizure, nor did it require police to prove the...
A pair of Indiana prison guards get in trouble over weed in separate incidents, a Florida deputy is apparently having way too much fun, and an Alabama...
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...
I attended the Tenth Annual Olympia Hempfest on Saturday, July 27, 2013, at beautiful Heritage Park, which sits in the shadow of the Washington State Capitol Building....
Deputies packing dope, jail guards smuggling dope, cops doing a little money laundering, and cops getting information for their dope dealer buddies. Just another week in the...
