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Former Mexican president Vicente Fox who once led a military crackdown on drug cartels now has a new pitch: creating a legal system to produce, distribute and tax marijuana.
Colorado legalized recreational pot smoking, but this week the governor signed an unconstitutional bill that keeps marijuana magazines under the counter.
Yanira Maldonado had no idea that she would be charged with smuggling nearly 12 pounds of cannabis from Mexico into the United States...
Science Daily breaks down a recent study which found low doses of THC protect against brain damage after seizures, hypoxia and some toxic drugs.
NORML Founder/Legal Counsel Keith Stroup and NORML Communications Director, Erik Altieri, sat down with Bob Edwards on his SiriusXM talk radio program.
The proposed marijuana grow zoning rules would keep grow operations away from the city's waterways and set the maximum area for a single grow op.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed four bills to establish a legal, marijuana market and begin the development for industrial hemp production.
A marijuana legalization effort in Portland, Maine has gathered more than twice the required signatures to put the question before voters.
The nation’s so-called ‘drug czar’, Gil Kerlikowske, convened a press conference last week to release new government data on drug use in America.
Nevada's medical marijuana dispensary bill passed a final hearing in the Senate Finance Committee and now moves to the senate for a third reading and vote.
A comprehensive article on Forbes explains the history of hemp prohibition, the usefulness of the hemp plant and economic reasons for the US to legalize it.
The bill would set up a division in the department of Alcoholic Beverage Control for medical marijuana regulation and licensing.
Yesterday, the Louisiana House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill to reduce harsh marijuana sentences for possession.
In the face of public pressure, the Department of Justice will allow Jerry Duval, a seriously ill medical marijuana patient with both a kidney and a pancreas transplant, to serve his 10-year sentence for marijuana-related offenses in a federal facility capable of meeting his medical needs.
The family of an Arizona mother of seven, Yanira Maldonado, being held in a Mexican jail vehemently denies charges that she was trying to smuggle about 12 pounds of marijuana back into the United States.
For nearly a century, the United States has been one of the fiercest advocates and practitioners of marijuana prohibition in the world. At the height of the America’s anti-pot fervor in the 1950s and ’60s, one could even receive life imprisonment for simple possession of the drug.
Several Michigan medical marijuana patients and caregivers are being forced to surrender to federal authorities to serve out lengthy prison terms.
Governance Studies at Brookings, Washington Office on Latin America will host a public forum to discuss changing attitudes towards marijuana legalization.
