US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Dick Lugar (R-IN) Wednesday introduced a bill that would create an independent commission to evaluate US policies and programs aimed at reducing the supply of and demand for illegal drugs in the Americas.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - ’Twas three weeks before Christmas and in the East Shore, the weed was wrapped nicely, a major drug score. The buyer was waiting but police knew a lot, and busted two men with a trunk full of pot.
New Jersey Senate Democrats are pushing ahead with a challenge to the Christie administration's rules for the state's new medical marijuana program, despite a supposedly bipartisan compromise the governor announced earlier this month.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Footage of teenie-pop sensation Miley Cyrus smoking salvia out of a bong has boosted sales of the drug and ignited comments from euphoria-phobic Drug Warriors who would love to see the legal substance banned.
The cannabis industry has flexed its muscles in 15 states where it's legal to smoke marijuana for medical purposes. Now the industry is ready to go to work in Washington.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the politician attempting to enact the most restrictive marijuana laws Canada has ever seen, has again invoked the memory of singer and pot activist John Lennon - this time by performing a "tribute" to the former Beatle on the 30th anniversary of his death.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Weed This Week with CC Editor Jeremiah Vandermeer will not be broadcast this week, but will return next Friday at 4pm Pacific with a new name: Cannabis Culture News LIVE.
The European Union will not block any initiative of EU Member States to start the legal regulation of cannabis and other currently illegal drugs. This was repeatedly stated by Dana Spinant, the new Coordinator of the European Commissions Anti-Drugs Unit, at a Public Hearing on Drug Policies in the European Parliament today.