Is Hemp Oil the Cancer Cure All?
Tommy Chong claims he is going to beat cancer with hemp oil. His “Doctor” is Rick Simpson, a Canadian who had to flee his country because the government was coming after him.
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Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs
The American press continues to report the body count in Mexico's "War on Drugs" at more than 50,000 dead.
New Jersey Marijuana Proponents Hold Their Breath on Medical Pot and Legalization
As New Jerseyans wait to learn whether the state Senate will follow its peers in the Assembly to pass a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, the first medical marijuana dispensary within New Jersey's borders may be little more than a month away from opening.
Sex Workers, Drug Users Protest Stigma During AIDS Conference
A crimson wall made its way across Washington D.C., Tuesday as more than 1,000 sex workers, drug users and AIDS activists, many of them carrying red umbrellas to fend off the rain.
San Diego Medical Marijuana Dispensary to Challenge U.S. Attorney’s War on Medical Marijuana
Laura Duffy is moving forward with her crusade to wipe out medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern California. The U.S. Attorney has threatened the owner of the building that houses the Mother Earth Cooperative in El Cajon with stiff fines, or confiscation of the property, if the dispensary does not shut its doors by tomorrow.
Los Angeles City Council Votes to Ban Marijuana Shops
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up across the city.
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Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds Escalate Their War on Pot
Hundreds of supporters of President Obama turned out to see him at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Monday afternoon.
In Significant Expansion, US Drug War Heads to Africa
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.
It’s Not Just NYC: Across America, Only Black and Brown People Get Arrested for Pot
New York City, the pot-bust capital of the Western world, is notorious for the racial skewing of its marijuana arrests. Over the last 15 years, more than 85 percent of the half-million-plus people charged with misdemeanor possession there have been black or Latino.
Montana Marijuana Initiative Comes Up Short
Montana residents will have a chance to vote on medical marijuana in November, but not on legalization. In a Friday statement, Secretary of State Linda McCullough announced that the medical marijuana initiative, IR-124 would be on the general election ballot (even though it had been a done deal since late last year), but that the constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana, CI-110, had failed to qualify.
