Mexico Fires Nearly 1,000 Veracruz Police Officers
Nearly 1,000 police officers were fired to weed out corruption from the violence-ravaged Gulf coast state of Veracruz, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
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Marijuana: Four Decades, No Change
It is difficult for Canadians to talk openly about drugs without hurting our chances of getting jobs or getting over the border in the future. Frankly, I am not sure I ought to be writing this.
Obama Administration’s Medical Marijuana Policies Now Worse Than Bush and Clinton Policies
Obama has not only broken his campaign promises about medical marijuana, his policies are now worse than Clinton or Bush.
Cannabis Culture News LIVE: Medical Marijuana Battles in the US and Canada
CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest news and views on pot politics and the marijuana community. In this episode: The political landscape continues to shift on both sides of the US-Canada border, and medical marijuana is in government crosshairs. We discuss the Obama/Harper war on the sick and dying with Canadian cannabis crusader Matt Mernagh.
U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign soil that, if carried out in the U.S., would violate the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) -- even if the planned activities are legal in the countries where they're carried out.
Congress Set to Escalate War on Drugs, Despite Decades of Failure and Unaffordable Price Tag
Bills being voted on in House Judiciary Committee tomorrow would criminalize new drugs, subject more Americans to mandatory minimum sentencing, and make it a crime to commit a drug offense in another country even if the offense is legal in that country.
Australian Boy, 14, Holidaying With Parents in Bali Faces 12 Years in Brutal Jail ‘for Possession of Marijuana’
A 14-year-old boy is being held in a harsh prison cell on the holiday island of Bali for drug possession - one of the youngest foreigners to be arrested in Indonesia.
American Marijuana Growers Could Beat This War on Drugs
The gruesome concomitants of the war on drugs were on display yet again last week in Mexico, where gangs continue to terrorise the public with impunity. The decapitated body of a crime-awareness blogger was found in Nuevo Laredo, the third of such killings to occur in the city over the last month.
Marijuana Man: The War for Drugs
CANNABIS CULTURE - Pot-TV Editor Marijuana Man's new two-part video examining the intricacies of the global War on Drugs.
Prohibition: A Parallel to Modern War on Drugs
KEN Burns' new documentary on alcohol prohibition, premiering on PBS Sunday, reportedly begins with a Mark Twain quote: "It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
