Like a lot of people, my morning routine involves clicking around a few major news sites to see what people are talking about that day. Disgusting cruise...
Members of Congress introduced bills Tuesday to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating and taxing marijuana like alcohol at the federal level. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced...
MPP executive director Rob Kampia is interviewed on “The Agenda,” a popular political show on the Las Vegas NBC affiliate. In particular, he discusses the prospects for legalizing marijuana...
I was on a radio show this past weekend debating a prohibitionist who still believes that medical cannabis is little more than a hoax…a ‘camel’s nose under...
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...
NORML supporter and ground-breaking video creator Steve Berke has just launched his most intense, humorous and well-produced viral video indictment against marijuana prohibition to date. A graduate...
Can legal attempts to change Cannabis Policy survive in the modern Legal system? In my last post on Cannabis Legalization I began by saying there is a legal...
Singer, poet, public speaker, and talk show host Henry Rollins has joined the growing ranks of public figures who support ending marijuana prohibition. Rollins is not a...
This illustrated marijuana timeline runs from 1911, when Massachusetts became the first state to outlaw marijuana, to just this month, when President Obama said the recent legalization of recreational...
I have written before about how dangerous and corrupting Civil Forfeiture Laws are. The Institute for Justice reports Judge Dan Pelligrini in Pennsylvania has gone so far as to call them...
Two states on Nov 6th changed their laws on cannabis, joining many who have already legalized for medicinal purposes, and now making it recreationally legal. This has...
01:52am The London-based HSBC Group, Europe’s largest banking entity, has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion and pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money...
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition; What do we have to...
History was made in Washington on Election night when 55 percent of voters decided in favor of Initiative 502. And at 12am this morning, history was made once again. Today,...
01:16pm On December 5, 1933, the 21st amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing federal prohibition of alcohol and sending alcohol regulation back to the states. Tomorrow,...
However pot’s future is going to play out in this country, its recent path to limited legalization has interesting parallels to alcohol, which was banned by the...
Members of the NORML Legal Committee (NLC) have filed a friend-of-the-court amicus brief in the case of Commonwealth v. Antonio Pacheco, scheduled for oral argument in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) at 9:00...
I have an op/ed today online at The Hill.com’s influential Congress blog (“Where lawmakers come to blog”). Read an excerpt from it below: Voters say ‘No’ to...
