US Has 330,000 Drug Offenders in Prison
Of the 1.6 million prisoners in America, some 330,000 were doing time for drug offenses, including nearly drug offenders 95,000 doing federal time....
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Memphis Cop, Dallas Man Killed in Separate Drug War Incidents
A Memphis police officer was shot and killed early Friday morning during a marijuana raid, and, hours later, a Dallas man was shot and killed by police...
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Delaware Governor Says Feds Need to Give Marijuana Guidance
Delaware Governor Jack Markell says the Obama administration should be more clear about its position on pot because if the feds won’t pursue medical or...
Help Needed: Release Five Lifetime Marijuana Prisoners
A law office filed a legal petition with the federal government seeking clemency for 5 elderly prisoners serving lifetime sentences for cannabis-only...
Legalization and the UN Drug Treaties -- A Minor Obstacle at Worst
An argument that's been made is that cannabis legalization would violate US obligations as signatories to the UN's international drug control treaties...
HSBC Bank Admits Cartel Money Laundering
Banking entity HSBC Group has agreed to forfeit $1.256 billion & pay an additional $600 million-plus in fines for laundering money for Mexican drug cartels.
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Marijuana Shot Over Border Fence With Cannon Seized
US Border Patrol agents found marijuana inside soup cans inside of larger cans and sealed on the ends. Drug smugglers were using a cannon to fire...
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media
A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, "Obama's Pot Problem," missed the mark on the federal preemption question on marijuana legalization...
Feds Say City of Oakland Can't Stop Medical Pot Crackdown
The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary...
Help Put White House Petition For Medi-Pot Prisoner Over-the-Top
Almost 25,000 of our fellow citizens have signed a White House petition asking President Obama to pardon Montana medical cannabis provider Chris Williams...
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Obama's Pot Problem
Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed...
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Sir Richard Branson: War on Drugs a Trillion-Dollar Failure
Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group and a member of the Global Drug Commission poses the simple question on drug prohibition...
Georgia Police Kill Armed Man During Marijuana Bust
Police officers in Buford, Georgia, shot & killed a man who refused to drop his weapon after they encountered him as they investigated a report of marijuana
Cannabis Is Now Legal in Washington State
History was made in Washington on Election night when 55 percent of voters decided in favor of Initiative 502, legalizing cannabis. And at 12am this...
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How to Sell Marijuana Legally, In Four Inconvenient Steps
John Davis, who runs a legal medical marijuana business in Washington, shares with NPR 4 key steps in trying to operate in the cannabis industry...
Medical Marijuana Advocates Urge Mendocino County Officials to Fight Federal Subpoena for Records
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and County Counsel to hold closed-door meeting Tuesday after 9am public comment period...
Coast Guard Officer Killed By Drug Smugglers
A US Coast Guard member was killed in the line of duty early Sunday when his vessel was rammed by smulggers in a panga boat carrying Mexican marijuana...
Spottedcrow Flies Free
Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with no prior convictions, was released from prison...