Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 3, 2012.
Provoked by federal raids and Republican attempts to eradicate medical pot, activists are rolling out a campaign for a constitutional amendment to legalize pot in Big Sky County.
Pot policy questions were front-and-center in the White House's "Your Interview With the President" YouTube campaign, but Obama refused to acknowledge them.
Rihanna is another example of how normalized marijuana use has become in mainstream culture, but as common as pot may be, getting arrested for it is no joke.
DHS has little to show for its drone spending spree other than stacks of seized marijuana and a few thousand immigrants who crossed the border without visas.
For over forty years, ganja has been the steadiest and most reliable source of income for Mexican traffickers, and it’s still the primary substance that lures most dealers.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 9, 2012.
The court will consider the case of Joelis Jardines, who was arrested after a Florida police officer's drug dog sniffed his front door and alerted to the odor of marijuana.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 3, 2012.
With some 350,000 signatures handed in -- enough to account for duplicate and invalid signatures -- the campaign to legalize and regulate pot should make the ballot.
Since the police commissioner told the NYPD to follow the books on marijuana arrests, all that's changed are the court proceedings that unfairly criminalize thousands.
Teens are smoking more weed, while cutting down on alcohol and cigarrettes cigarrettes, because they do not perceive marijuana to be as harmful as did generations past.
Anecdotal evidence beat out science in debate over the bill, which will ban 40 relatively unknown chemicals found in bath salts and fake pot, and make researching them difficult.
Obama pardoned three marijuana offenders and commuted the sentence of one crack offender, but the implications of his actions are not as optimistic as they may sound.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 22, 2011.
Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
The federal government abruptly steamrolled dozens of medical marijuana providers in Montana last March. Unlike their California counterparts, they received no warning.
