Oregon AG candidate Ellen Rosenblum promises to make marijuana enforcement a low priority, but will it affect medical marijuana policy on a national level?
If the candidate who ordered raids on medical pot growers in Southern Oregon loses the election, the loss may reverberate with US Attorneys around the country.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 21, 2012.
Demonstrators in Oakland Friday put the campaign on notice that the administration is losing friends in California with its attacks on medical marijuana.
The country's first "cannabis college" is raided and taped off by federal marshalls; the DEA and IRS continue their "ongoing investigation" as marijuana supporters mobilize.
Law enforcement forced entry into the home of Daisy Bram, then violently ripped her three-week old newborn from her arms because she is a medical marijuana patient.
A federal judge in Sacramento dismissed the NORML Legal Committee's lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, and DEA Director Michele Leonhart.
At the same time public support for marijuana legalization reached record highs, Obama shifted from one time medicinal cannabis sympathizer to White House weed-whacker.
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.
The court granted review for two rulings that dealt major blows to the medical pot industry, and has the opportunity to lay the foundation for future regulation.
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.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 30, 2011.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee and Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire Wednesday called on the federal government to reschedule marijuana as a drug with accepted medical use.
Joe Miller worked as a probation officer for nearly three years before he was fired for adding his name to a Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) letter.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 28, 2011.
Gingrich's position on the drug war is so extreme he wants to emulate Singapore, where corporal punishment for minor offenses and the death penalty for drugs are policy.
Norman Smith was within two months of receiving a liver transplant when the same hospital that prescribed him the pot de-listed him. Now, he may die as the result.
In 1988, a federal program made Elvy Musikka one of the first Americans to receive medical marijuana. Now a marijuana activist, she shares her inspiring -- and enraging -- story.
The federal government abruptly steamrolled dozens of medical marijuana providers in Montana last March. Unlike their California counterparts, they received no warning.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. November 11, 2011.
Experts discuss the status of medical marijuana; a Republican presidential candidate vows to free pot prisoners; and cops speak out against prohibition.
Claiming states' rights, entrapment, and constitutional violations, NORML attorneys file suit in four CA districts to challenge the federal assault on legal weed.
