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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 Virginia is one such spot in our nation.
In a conference call this morning, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki discussed the impact of his award-winning drug war documentary The House I Live In and where we go from here in the fight to end the drug war and mass incarceration.
Former President Bill Clinton spoke Sunday on Meet the Press expressing his belief that states should ‘experiment’ with allowing adults to use marijuana recreationally, Washington Post reports. “I think we should leave it to the states,” Clinton said.
Russell Brand, British comedian and former husband of Katy Perry, has joined with some 90 celebrities, health experts, lawyers and politicians (including Sir Richard Branson and Sting) in signing a letter to the Prime Minister asking for reformed drug policy.
The Leaf Online delves into the roots of hemp in American culture such as when and where it was first grown, as well as how it was used for industrial, medicinal, religious and recreational purposes.
Things aren't as sunny in Philadelphia as they may seem. Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey spoke out to announce his intention to continue arresting people for cannabis, regardless of a veto-proof City Council vote.
The UK government recently scheduled khat as a class C controlled substance, making it illegal to possess, grow or use. For some background, khat, a plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, is a mild stimulant with a lesser physiological dependence rating than tobacco or alcohol.
Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) offered an amendment to Senate appropriations bill S. 2347 on June 19, which would stop the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from targeting state-legal medical marijuana patients for possessing firearms.
Why should anyone care what il Papa has to say on drug legalization of any kind anyway? The Catholic church never seriously addressed its open-armed position to child abusers and openly drugs its own congregations with a psychotropic substance.
In a memo obtained by NORML, released in late May, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) clarified their drug policy in light of the growing number of states legalizing marijuana for medical and recreational use.
Upon meeting Jacob and Kaci at a Texas NORML meeting at Flamingo Cantina on Wednesday June 4th, one can see that they are your average young couple, with great hopes and aspirations for the future ahead of them. Failed drug policies are currently threatening the future of not just Jacob but many other U.S. Citizens throughout the nation, time and time again.
Christie dismissed concerns about low enrollment in the state's medical marijuana program, and said "this program and all these other programs, in my mind, are a front for legalization."
It's not as if you needed another log to toss onto your "DEA is the Devil" bonfire, but a new report from the Drug Policy Alliance casts them in an even more pejorative light (if you can believe it).
Despite being notoriously known for having some of the most conservative laws regarding cannabis, even Virginia has found itself following suit with the rest of the nation in reconsidering the way it defines and restricts marijuana.
Brandon Coats never expected he would end up as the test case pitting Colorado’s medical marijuana laws against the right of employers to have zero-tolerance marijuana policies. But now the Colorado Supreme Court will be hearing his case against Dish Network, the company that had employed him as a telephone operator at its call center, then fired him when he tested positive for marijuana on a random piss test.
Medical marijuana patient Larry Harvey, 70, has returned to Washington, D.C. this week to persuade the U.S. Senate to vote for an end to the type of Justice Department (DOJ)
Cannabis reform won a historic vote in the House last week, which approved language blocking the federal government from interfering with state medical marijuana laws
Should Tulsa-based Oklahomans for Health gather nearly 160,000 signatures from voters in the next 90 days, the question will be on the ballot in November.
