President Barack Obama brushed off a question about legalizing marijuana in his online town hall last month, but guitar god Carlos Santana says he wishes he would seriously consider it.
As world leaders scramble for ways to resurrect the dwindling economy, it seems that even marijuana is not being ruled out as a possible economic stimulus.
Judge Jim Gray isn't the bleary eyed stereotype of an advocate for the decriminalization of marijuana. Gray, who has never tried the drug, is a former attorney in the Navy JAG Corps, prosecutor, and a Judge in conservative Orange Country, California. Judge Gray isn't in favor ending the War On Drugs in spite of that experience.
Tomorrow, Liberal Health Promotion Critic MP for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Dr. Keith Martin, will stand in the Canadian House of Commons to introduce a bill to decriminalize marijuana.
If you thought President Barack Obama's mocking response to the question of whether "taxing and regulating cannabis would raise revenue and reduce prohibition-associated violence" couldn't be any worse, just listen to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
CANNABIS CULTURE - CNN News mainstay Larry King will discuss marijuana legalization tonight at 9pm ET with Montell Williams, Stephen Baldwin, and Charles Lynch, owner of a California medical marijuana dispensary busted by the DEA. Though medical marijuana is legal in the state of California, Lynch is facing up to 100 years in a federal prison.