CANNABIS CULTURE - A new ballot initiative to Regulate Marijuana Like Wine in California is gaining steam after organizers collected a number of big-name endorsements and over 10,000 signatures in their first two weeks.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The US government is continuing its brutal crackdown on medical marijuana providers in several states across the nation. Yesterday, Federal agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration raided more than a dozen med-pot dispensaries in Washington State, making several arrests.
CANNABIS CULTURE - The race for the Republican presidential nomination is turning out to be interesting, but not for the reasons you might think. You could even call it historic: two candidates who support legalizing marijuana want to be the Republican choice for president and one of them has used it in recent years for medicinal purposes.
An emotional plea from the mother of a 19-year-old who died in a high-speed crash after using synthetic marijuana on Monday convinced a City Council committee to ban the legal product in Chicago.
It's a fine time to be a criminal in California. Arrests in every category of crime are down -- way down: Arrests for rape, murder, and theft have all decreased by two-thirds since 1990, according to a study published last week by the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
About one hundred opponents of marijuana prohibition rallied at the State Capitol on Saturday, November 12, 2011, to help educate the public and to dispel old, worn out myths and misinformation about marijuana.
“We don’t know what they’re doing with the money, where the money goes, whose bank account it ends up in,” he said of foreign drug traffickers who operate on public land.