Are Denver’s Pot Profits Hurting the City’s Housing Market?
Back in 2012, when Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational sales, legislators were busy debating how to maintain public safety in terms of law enforcement and probable criminal activity related...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Says Yes to Legalizing Pot
Bernie Sanders, the Great Liberal Hope for left-leaning Democrats looking forward to next year’s presidential election, finally declared that he’s in favor of marijuana legalization. During last...
View ArticleTSA Officer Took Bribes to Let Pot Fly, Feds Say
A former Transportation Security Administration officer was indicted for allegedly allowing luggage filled with marijuana to get through security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport. His...
View ArticleHuge News: U.S. Judge Protects Dispensaries From the Feds
In a huge victory for California marijuana dispensaries, a U.S. District Court judge said federal authorities couldn’t interfere with the operation of a collective that was legal by state state...
View ArticleUnited Nations Leans Toward Decriminalization
The United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crime reportedly prepared a briefing paper calling for nations to end the international War on Drugs and decriminalize self medication. This according to Sir...
View ArticleCanadian Election Moves Country Closer to Legalization
Canadian voters overnight gave the Liberal party a majority in parliament and thus the right to chose the country’s next Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. The party surpassed the 170 seats needed in...
View ArticleMarijuana Science Is Dumbed Down by Feds
Marijuana legalization is moving ahead fast. Yet our knowledge of the drug is still in the dark ages. A new report from the Brookings Institution blames the federal government for failing to remove...
View ArticleAmerica Still Wants Legal Pot, Poll Says
As legalization fever sweeps the land and California anticipates a chance to vote on recreational marijuana next year, a new poll says a solid majority of Americans supports legitimizing cannabis. The...
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Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Would ‘Intensify’ Drug War
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was recently a guest on a radically right-wing radio show hosted by Glenn Beck who asked about the candidate’s stance on the so-called “war on drugs”....
View ArticleCops Rally Against Unnecessary Prison Time
A new group of pro-legalization cops has just formed. If you think all police are jack-booted thugs, you’re wrong. The folks at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition have long been supporters of legal...
View ArticleFeds Raid Border “Super Tunnel,” Seize 12 Tons of Pot
Feds this week announced that they have uncovered one of the largest drug-smuggling border tunnels ever. The tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana measured roughly the length of eight football fields...
View ArticleThe Number of Americans Using Pot Has Doubled
About one in 10 American adults has used marijuana in the last year. That sounds pretty mellow. But researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism say that’s more than double...
View ArticleNearly $1 Million Worth of Weed Found in Scrap Metal
Authorities say they found 1,815 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of scrap metal. The shipment was headed for the United States at the U.S.-Mexico border’s Calexico East port of entry in...
View ArticleYes, Anti-Pot Activists Prefer Republican Candidates
Marijuana legalization, drug decriminalization and sentencing reform has seen some surprisingly bipartisan support in recent years. U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Orange County was the force behind a...
View ArticleMarijuana Use Associated With Strokes in Some Patients
Marijuana use is associated with strokes in users who have narrower brain arteries caused by a buildup of plaque, new research concludes. A study on the matter conduced at the University Hospital of...
View ArticleDriving High on the Increase in Washington State
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission recently released data on drivers under the influence of marijuana. The state entity says the percentage of drivers involved in deadly accidents who tested...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Moves to End Federal Blacklisting of Pot
Sen. Bernie Sanders this week called for marijuana to be taken off the list of federally outlawed drugs. The rescheduling or “descheduling” of pot would remove it as a so-called Schedule I drug, a...
View ArticlePot Initiative Backed by Facebook’s Sean Parker Debuts
The anticipated initiative backed by Facebook billionaire Sean Parker made its debut appearance this week. Organizers filed initial initiative language for what they’re calling the Adult Use of...
View ArticleOhio’s Marijuana Monopoly Fails to Pass
Ohio voters solidly rejected marijuana legalization this week. “Issue 3 has been soundly defeated!” Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies said on Twitter. The ballot measure would have legalized both...
View ArticleCould Ohio’s Legalization Failure Happen in California?
Proponents of one of the marijuana legalization initiatives aiming for the 2016 ballot in California are warning that Ohio’s failure to pass that state’s own attempt to make it legal could provide a...
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