Stepping up its involvement in Mexico's drug war, the Obama administration has begun sending drones deep into Mexican territory to gather intelligence that helps locate major traffickers and follow their networks, according to American and Mexican officials.
Federal drug enforcement agents Tuesday raided two West Hollywood medical marijuana stores in the first such action in the city since the Obama administration decided two years ago to take a hands-off approach to dispensaries that abide by state laws.
B.C. Green Party politician and cannabis crusader Jodie Emery has been invited to speak to the Washington State Legislature on a bill to legalize cannabis.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives, which has a nearly 3:1 Republican supermajority, overwhelmingly passed a bill today that would allow residents to use marijuana for medical purposes.
Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars, who made LSD in quantity for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other avatars of the psychedelic ;60s, died on Sunday in a car accident in Australia. He was 76 and lived in the bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland.
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms operation allowed guns to be trafficked south of the border with the hope they would lead to high-level cartel operatives.
This week's raids on medical marijuana businesses across Montana were much more extensive than first thought with officers executing 26 search warrants across 13 Montana cities, including Kalispell, Columbia Falls, Whitefish and Olney, capping a federal investigation that's been underway for 18 months.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Jodie Emery, the wife of “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery, will be giving testimony on Wednesday March 16th at a Washington State Legislature work session for House Bill 1550, which will legalize, tax and regulate marijuana for adults.