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More States Move Forward With CBD-Only Measures, But Will They Help Patients?

Lawmakers in Alabama and Utah recently approved legislation seeking to authorize the physician-supervised use of varieties of cannabis and/or extracts high in the non-psychotropic cannabinoid...

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Police Shootout at New Jersey Strip Mall Just Another Drug War Failure

This week the Bergen County Narcotics Task Force proved a point.  Whats this point? The point is that the drug war has FAILED. Unfortunately a police officer could have died for this point.  Bergen...

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A Meditation on Progressive Cannabis Regulations

With legalization poised to sweep the country in the next few years, perhaps it is time to ponder what form a good law would take. Not a perfect one, but one that had a reasonable chance of passing....

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Momentum Builds for Obama Prohibition Protest in New England

The Drug War is so bigoted and evil, the president ought to run into street demonstrations every time he steps out of the White House. Well, it looks like that may be starting.  The people of...

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New York City’s New Boss: Same as the Old?

NEW YORK, NY — A new report released this week by the Marijuana Arrest Research Project reveals that marijuana arrests have actually increased in New York City under the new leadership of Mayor De...

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As Summer Heats Up, Multiple Protests on Tap to Free Drug War Prisoners

This summer is really shaping up as a time when people are taking to the streets in opposition to Cannabis Prohibition, and specifically to demand that the president pardons all the Drug War martyrs....

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The Fear of Pleasure: Why CBD-Only Legislation is Not a Real Solution

Most of us were caught off-guard by the rush of states this year that approved the limited use of CBD-only marijuana extracts because these traditionally conservative states had heretofore rejected the...

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How Much Home Grow to Allow in Legal Marijuana States?

When your state legalizes marijuana, how should the new repel law be written? Specifically, on the key question of home grow, how many plants should you be able to grow for yourself and friends? In one...

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CBD Oil — That’s All You Need, Right?

Since Governor Nixon signed Missouri’s House Bill 2238 a few weeks ago, many people have been asking questions about the first law to allow cannabis in our state since WWII. Suddenly, soccer moms...

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The War Against Special Interest Control of Cannabis

Once a struggle between reformers and prohibitionists, marijuana policy has quite suddenly become a battle between reformers and powerful monied interests and their political friends. Now allowed for...

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What if Legalizing Marijuana Turns Our Kids Into A Bunch of Bong-Mongering...

That’s what Sue Rusche wants to know, and someone better give her an answer, because Sue Rusche is one of the nation’s leading experts at being afraid of drugs.  In many state legislatures around the...

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Jurors Can (and Should) Refuse to Convict in Marijuana Cases

Paul Butler has an important piece in the New York Times reminding all of us that we don’t have to enforce unjust laws when we serve on a jury. IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I...

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Strange New Website Attacks Marijuana Legalization… and Soy Beans

When I first arrived randomly at Thoughtful-Living.org, it appeared at first glance to be a website literally created for the dual purposes of opposing marijuana legalization andcondemning the practice...

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VICTIM or VILLAIN? Was Matthew Stewart Defending His Home, or Should He Face...

In the wake of the tragic shootout in Ogden, Utah, which left one police officer dead, many questions remain unanswered. Was Matthew Stewart, a US Army veteran and self-medicating medical marijuana...

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Mass. Murderer: Lawmaker Kills Medical Marijuana Bills Yet Again

In what seems to be an annual event in Massachusetts, state Representative Jeffery Sánchez has once again sent promising medical marijuana legislation to study .

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What’s So Funny About the War on Drugs?

For all the progress that's been made towards bringing the drug policy debate into the political mainstream, there remains a tragic tendency among many in the press to burst out laughing at the idea of...

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Kansas Measure Takes a Step Forward Despite House Leadership Efforts to Block

TOPEKA, KS — Last Tuesday, the Kansas House held an informational hearing on HB 2330, a Compassionate Care measure filed by Rep. Gail Finney (D-Wichita). Those of us in attendance were treated to the...

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Union of Medical Marijuana Patients Offers Alternatives to City of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA – James Shaw, director of the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, announced that the Union has provided the members of the Los Angeles City Council and City Attorney two motions to...

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FBI Drug Squad Uses Chainsaw To Invade…the Wrong Apartment

If anyone needs another reminder that the adrenaline-addicted anti-drug armies we’ve unleashed in our own communities are more dangerous than any drug on the planet, well, get a load of this: FITCHBURG...

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What if Day Care Workers Get Stoned on Marijuana and Kill Children?

You may think legalizing marijuana is such a great idea, but what if it’s actually the worst idea ever? Here’s someone who believes the latter, and they’ve written a letter to their local newspaper...

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