Vice President Joe Biden heads to Latin America Sunday amid unprecedented pressure from political and business leaders to talk about something U.S. officials have no interest in debating: decriminalizing drugs.
Arianna appeared on Monday morning's edition of "CNN Starting Point With Soledad O'Brien," joining a roundtable to discuss singer Tony Bennett's call to legalize drugs. Bennett's comments came on Saturday evening after singer Whitney Houston died at 48.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Cannabis activist Jodie Emery appeared Wednesday on Canada's answer to the Fox News network, Sun TV, to discuss new Conservative drugs laws that would give non-violent marijuana growers longer prison sentences than child rapists.
An 18-year-old teenager, Ramarley Graham, was killed in his home in the Bronx last week by plainclothes cops. A member of the narcotics unit shot the unarmed teenager in his bathroom.
In a case that has implications for Colorado and other medical marijuana states, Montana state Rep. Diane Sands, D-Missoula, has come under investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Sands said she doesn’t know why she’s being investigated, but she suspects the investigation is related to her advocacy of liberalized marijuana laws.