Los Angeles City Council Votes to Ban Marijuana Shops
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up across the city.
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Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds Escalate Their War on Pot
Hundreds of supporters of President Obama turned out to see him at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Monday afternoon.
Lebanese Marijuana Farmers Fight Security Forces
Farmers armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced Lebanese government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Monday, a witness said.
B.C. Aids Doctors Join International Call For End to ‘War on Drugs’
Two prominent Canadian doctors have joined an international campaign calling on world leaders to stop the spread of AIDS by ending the so called war on drugs.
In Significant Expansion, US Drug War Heads to Africa
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.
It’s Not Just NYC: Across America, Only Black and Brown People Get Arrested for Pot
New York City, the pot-bust capital of the Western world, is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last 15 years, more than 85 percent of the half-million-plus people charged with misdemeanor possession there have been black or Latino.
Montana Marijuana Initiative Comes Up Short
Montana residents will have a chance to vote on medical marijuana in November, but not on legalization. In a Friday statement, Secretary of State Linda McCullough announced that the medical marijuana initiative, IR-124 would be on the general election ballot (even though it had been a done deal since late last year), but that the constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana, CI-110, had failed to qualify.
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Medical Marijuana Grower, Others Sue to Stop Pot Legalization Initiative
The state’s most famous purveyor of medical marijuana and others have sued to keep a marijuana legalization initiative off the November ballot.
Arizona Medical Marijuana List Expansion Rejected
As director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, Will Humble is the man working behind the scenes to run Arizona's fledgling medical-marijuana program.
Senate Raps HSBC Over Lax Controls, Links to Money Laundering, Drug Money
The chief compliance officer of Britain’s HSBC Tuesday said he was stepping down from that position after an investigation found that lax controls at the international bank allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its U.S. operation and other illicit transactions.
