DEA deputy director: "Every single parent" opposes pot legalization
Well over half of Americans want pot to be legalized, and a panicky Drug Enforcement Administration is ramping up its lies and surliness. Here's a testy exchange between DEA deputy administrator...
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Medical marijuana patient fights for his right to light up in a casino
Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Price wants to use his prescribed medicine in an Atlantic City casino. He takes medical marijuana to treat seizures and irritable bowel disease. The casino wont let him,...
View ArticleMedical marijuana patient busted in Washington DC
Ed Forchion, aka "The New Jersey Weedman" and his friend Daniel Price, who both have medical marijuana licenses, attempted to go to Washington D.C. where Forchion would be speaking at an event. While...
View ArticleDEA agents ignored handcuffed man for 5 days: no water, no food
Drug Enforcement Administration employees saw and heard a handcuffed college student locked in a cell without food or water for five days, but did nothing about it because "they assumed someone else...
View ArticleOne cop in Seattle issues 80% of city's marijuana tickets
An internal investigation revealed that the officer "flipped a coin when contemplating which subject to cite," and that he called Washington's legal marijuana law "silly." (more…)
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WATCH: rise of the super drug tunnels: California's losing fight against...
Joe Garcia is a deputy special agent with the Department of Homeland Security and head of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force. His task force has found over 200 tunnels under the California-Mexico border...
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Florida anti-pot leader: weed is a date rape drug and will make you gay and...
A vast majority of Floridians, including Republicans, are in favor of medical marijuana. That means Florida's Amendment 2 ballot initiative, which legalizes medical marijuana, is likely to pass in...
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Buttle/Tuttle mixup: Cops tell innocent woman she is dead, then throw her in...
Shannon Renee McNeal (right), a 42-year-old woman, has filed a lawsuit against St Louis police and court personnel after they falsely arrested her on felony drug possession charges that were meant for...
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Because American Spectator editor likes scotch, weed must remain illegal
Bob Tyrrell, founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator (the stupid person's idea of a smart magazine) enjoys scotch, which is sufficient reason to lock up everyone who doesn't share his...
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Medical marijuana linked to reduction in drug overdose rates
Science News: "Death rates from overdoses on prescription painkillers or heroin and other illicit drugs appear to be an average of 24.8 percent lower in states with medical marijuana laws than in...
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Ethan Nadelmann on Democracy Now : Pot Decriminalization Advances in the U.S
Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance speaks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now about the growing movement for drug decriminalization that is moving ahead in the...
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Weed prohibitionists caught telling lies
Carrying on the sleazy tradition of professional liar Harry J. Anslinger (first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics), weed prohibitionists are stretching the...
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Congress ends federal ban on medical marijuana
The federal spending measure passed this weekend, and one of the provisions in it "effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy,"...
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Obama’s Department of Justice says marijuana as dangerous as heroin
Image: ShutterstockIn December, Obama signed a bill containing a provision that prevents the federal government from interfering with states' medical marijuana activities. Yet, two weeks later, Obama’s...
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WATCH: 2 Chainz schools Nancy Grace about weed prohibition
Screechy plastic replicant lady Nancy Grace gets a lesson from 2 Chainz about the dangers of weed prohibition. (more…)
View ArticleWhy animals eat psychoactive plants
The United Nations says the drug war’s rationale is to build “a drug-free world — we can do it!” U.S. government officials agree, stressing that “there is no such thing as recreational drug use.” So...
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Reptilian elite allow human to become US drug czar
The lizard people who control the U.S. Senate confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Michael Botticelli to be the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka drug czar)....
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Young Republicans demand legal weed
63% of Millennial age Republicans support legal weed, according to the latest PewResearch poll. 58% favor same-sex marriage, too. Most of the older members of their party are in disagreement. (more…)
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Drug field tests used by cops are so bad they react positively to air, soap,...
Crappy drug detecting kits used by police yield too many false positives. They result in wrongful arrest and imprisonment of innocent people. Sage has been mistaken for marijuana; motor oil for heroin;...
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Washington State's medical marijuana milieu is almost too good to be true
Read Dennis Eichhorn's Real Stuff stories and listen to Mark's interview with Dennis here. (more…)
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Michele Leonhart, head of scandal-plagued DEA, expected to resign
Michele Leonhart, who has reigned over an out-of-control Drug Enforcement Administration since 2007, is expected to resign as administrator soon. (more…)
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How do Balinese shroom dealers stay out of prison?
Indonesia has some of the most draconian drugs laws in the world. Smugglers and dealers face execution. (Earlier this year Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were put to death by firing squad for...
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Pope "plans to chew coca leaves during Bolivia visit"
The United Nations declared coca leaves an illegal substance in 1961, but Pope Francis told the government of Bolvia to break out the leaves when he arrives for a visit later this month - he plans to...
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This is what a sensible drug policy looks like
This video, which was released last year, was produced by the city of Amsterdam to warn tourists that heroin was being sold by street dealers as cocaine. The city set up signs and offered inexpensive...
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DEA chief: medical marijuana is "a joke." Science: No, it's not.
Chuck Rosenberg, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is either woefully ignorant, protective of his administration's reckless mission, or both. "What really bothers me is the notion that...
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Video about heroin users who travel from Sweden to Denmark to shoot up
Vice has an interesting video about what happens when neighboring countries have different drug policies. (Uncensored version here.) While Sweden rigidly sticks to its zero tolerance laws, liberal...
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Comparing Portugal's and the Philippines's opposite drug policies
In 2001 Portugal decriminalized the consumption of all drugs. Meanwhile, the Philippines deals with drug users by shooting them in the street or throwing them in prison. Neither approach eliminates...
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Man smokes legal weed in Nevada, gets arrested in Dubai, could face 3 years
Don't go to Dubai with a bread roll poppy seed on your sweater. Don't go to Dubai with a microscopic speck of pot on your shoe. And don't be like Peter Clark, an American who smoked pot in Las Vegas...
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The "iron law of prohibition" explains why the DEA is responsible for the...
As a result of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States, the supply of beer and wine decreased while that of hard liquor increased. Bootleggers realized they could make more money and be less...
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Germany will become the second EU country to legalize recreational cannabis
Following the steps of tiny Malta, Germany announced it is taking steps to legalize recreational cannabis. The new law will allow Germans to acquire and possess less than an ounce of weed, and will...
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