Americans for Safe Access has just filed a lawsuit against the Dept of Health and Human Services over medical marijuana.
The Oakland-based organization seeks to stop the government from using taxpayer money to spread information about marijuana that contradicts current science.
“The FDA position on medical cannabis is incorrect, dishonest and a flagrant violation of […]
The video of Rodney King being beaten senseless by the LAPD was stunning to white Americans, but it was nothing new to many African-Americans. Before the tape, all of that talk about police brutality seemed a tad exaggerated to folks in Irvine and Newport Beach. That tape convinced them over dinner.Thelma is a […]
Last November, voters adopted Measure Z. The measure mandates that police make most marijuana crimes their lowest priority. (Exceptions include crimes involving minors or public property.) It also requires the formation of a council of citizens to oversee implementation.
The Santa Cruz City Council has a problem with that.
The City Council shudders at […]
When the DEA attacked 11 medical facilties in January of 2007, it turned the spotlight on Los Angeles in a way it could not have intended. Now LA is right where she likes to be - under the spotlight, center stage. And when the City of Angels catches the limelight, you know it’s […]
A new line of argument against marijuana may be beginning to emerge.
The government has been telling us that marijuana has no medicinal value. The latest science is saying otherwise. Now the government tacitly admits the benefits of marijuana, but claims to be concerned about smoke inhalation.
We can solve this problem overnight. Not […]
Concluding that there is an inadequate supply of marijuana for medical research, an administrative law judge has recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration that it grant a Massachusetts professor’s application to grow the drug in bulk.The judge’s ruling is nonbinding. But officials at the American Civil Liberties Union hope that the recommendation to grant the […]
That’s what American taxpayers spent last year according to Paul Armentano’s article on Alternet.org.
American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That’s according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
According to the new BJS report, “Drug Use and […]
Tomorrow’s New Zealand Herald is running a story titled Obama owns up to cannabis, cocaine use as teen. Of course, this isn’t new information. Celebstoner.com ran this piece in January, while Obama was already forthcoming about his past back in 1995.
Obama wrote the following in his book Dreams from My Father:
I blew a […]
When senior citizens are taken advantage of, Americans get pissed off. As soon as some dirtbag defrauds a group of old people, evening TV shows scurry to produce dire warnings because they know that a huge number of Americans will be concerned enough to tune in. Why then, when it is our government […]
Our leaders don’t need to be members of Mensa to govern well, but they shouldn’t require special education either. In many state Legislatures (as in Congress), we find a disturbing number who do. That we trust them to ponder society’s biggest decisions is evidence that we are either just as dense or way […]
