A group of conservative and liberal lawmakers are teaming up to tell the federal government to butt out of the legislative process and local communities about medical marijuana.
The total amount of marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration nearly doubled from 1,539 metric tons in fiscal 2008 to 2,980 metric tons in last year.
A growing movement in Latin America to decriminalize possession of marijuana and other illegal drugs may undermine global efforts to combat narcotics, a United Nations group said.
Recently, I have been in correspondence with Tim Beck, a personal hero of mine. He is the fellow who single-handedly got the Michigan Marijuana Initiative on the ballot and made sure that it won in all 51 counties.
DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin first said "the time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody." Now he says the DEA is “not declaring war on dispensaries.”
On Thursday, a Denver news station interviewed Chris Bartkowicz about his medical-marijuana operation in the basement of his home. Bartkowicz, confident of his compliance with state laws, boasted of its size and profitability.