Hazy Laws Leave Medical Marijuana Users Confused About Where It’s Legal To Light Up
Pot advocates and legal experts are calling for greater regulatory clarity on where medicinal weed users are allowed to light up.
Browsing: Federal Law
Canada Liberal Party Leader Says Legalize Marijuana
Canada's opposition Liberal Party head Justin Trudeau has called for the legalization of marijuana, putting himself and his party on a collision course with the ruling Conservatives ahead of 2015 elections.
Feds Raid WA Medical Pot Dispensaries — Could More Regulation Save the Coming Legal Market?
A strong, state-based regulatory system appears key to avoiding the crackdown.
Vermont, Other States Clash With Federal Law Over Hemp Cultivation
Some Vermont farmers want to plant hemp now that the state has a law setting up rules to grow the plant, a cousin of marijuana that’s more suitable for making sandals than getting high.
DEA Raids Puget Sound Medical-Pot Shops Despite State Law
At least 14 Puget Sound-area medical-marijuana dispensaries were swept up in a long-expected law-enforcement raid that ranks as the largest since the state approved medical marijuana.
What Growing Up With an Incarcerated Father Taught Me About the Drug War
Children often face the gravest consequences of America's draconian drug policy.
The Real Purpose of the Drug War
A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in a letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the opening ones of his administration, Obama and his top legal aides seemed to the eager ears of marijuana legalizers on the West Coast to be opening the door to a new, sensible era.
California Dems Say “No!” to Medical Marijuana Crackdown, Federal Interference in CO, WA
SoCal activist Lanny Swerdlow recently notified us that the California Democratic Party passed two historic resolutions on the issue of marijuana at its Executive Board meeting in Costa Mesa on Sunday, July 21.
Federal Bill Would Up Penalties for Marijuana “Trespass Grows”
A bill introduced Thursday by Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) and bipartisan cosponsors from California and Colorado would create new penalties for marijuana growers who grow on federal lands
Book Review: Too High to Fail
Marijuana and marijuana policy are big news these days -- they are exciting times, indeed! -- and that's reflected in what has now become a deluge of books on the topic.
