The Athens News, 17 Jun 2013 - It used to be that cannabis was legal in Ohio. Here and everywhere in the U.S, you could walk into a drug store and buy the processed plant to treat what ailed you. Don Wirtshafter has proof - a collection of cannabis bottles, jars and boxes. It fills two display cases in his home in Guysville. […]
Arizona Daily Sun, 16 Jun 2013 - PHOENIX - Voters who have seen how medical marijuana works in Arizona may get a chance to extend the ability to use the drug to all other adults. Proponents of legalization filed the necessary paperwork Wednesday to start gathering the 259,213 signatures they need to put the issue of legalization on the 2014 ballot. They have […]
Arizona Daily Sun, 16 Jun 2013 - Legalization of marijuana for some people, in some circumstances, has created new roles for Flagstaff police as well. Officers are now undergoing new training to determine when a cardholding marijuana user is nevertheless driving while impaired. […]
Report from DFWNORML Conf: Shawn McCalister head of DFWNORML, Keith Stoup legal counsel for NORML Natl, Terry Nelson of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition + Rob Kampia Dir of Marijuana Policy Project […]
Clarence Walker reports re a judge planting drugs on a woman who chose not to be his mistress, Russ Bellville of 420 Radio, Doug McVay with Drug War Facts […]
We haven’t talked much directly here about the ongoing NSA/FISA and related scandals in the news. After all, one could say, it’s not directly about drug policy. And yet, it seems pretty obvious to me which “side” the vast majority of my readers is likely to find themselves. This article helps to articulate it. NSA […]
Powerful piece by LEAP’s Neill Franklin in the Baltimore Sun: Another needless death in America’s long, failed war on drugs As long as we continue with the failed drug war and prohibition, the losses will continue to mount on all sides. Families will continue to lose fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, nieces and […]
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