Anti-Marijuana Billboards Taken Down in Portland
Anti-marijuana billboards have been removed after complaints from medical pot patients in Portland.
Jeremiah Vandermeer
Nelly Is Latest Performer Ensnared at West Texas Checkpoint
A notorious checkpoint in West Texas – notorious, at least, to the pop musicians and celebrities who have been stopped there for drug-related arrests – has another notch in its belt.
Grenade Burns Sleeping Girl as SWAT Team Raids Billings Home
A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning.
Oregon’s Measure 80 Faces an Uphill Battle
Of the three marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot this year, Oregon's Measure 80, also known as the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, is the most radical. For a variety of reasons it also looks to be the least likely to win.
New Report: 240,000 Marijuana Possession Arrests in Washington State in the Last 25 Years
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionately arrested; 25 years of arrests in WA Cost $300 million or more.
John McKay: Existing Marijuana Laws Are a Costly Failure
As the previous U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, part of my job was to enforce our nation's prohibition on marijuana. I carried out my sworn duty without hesitation. But I saw then, and can say now, that marijuana prohibition has been a miserable failure.
Pot Prohibition Serves Only Crooks and Pushers
Taxpayers must be wondering how long the list of proponents will have to grow before Ottawa moves to decriminalize pot use.
Federal Liberal Council of Riding Association Presidents Endorse Resolution to Legalize Cannabis
British Columbia’s Federal Liberal Council of Riding Association Presidents endorsed a policy resolution to legalize and regulate cannabis in Canada, as approved by Liberal Party delegates from across Canada at the Party’s 2012 Biennial Policy Conference in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau’s Federal Liberal Leadership Bid Doesn’t Thrill B.C. Marijuana Activists
Cannabis activists don’t see a friend in Justin Trudeau, the presumptive frontrunner in the race for the federal Liberal leadership.
Oregon Pot Measure Struggles as Washington, Colorado Thrive
As marijuana legalization efforts in Colorado and Washington pick up steam, a similar push in Oregon seems to be going up in smoke.
