Drug-policy maven Mark Kleiman thinks "ASA has crossed an ethical line by charging opponents of legislation it favors with wanting to put four-year-old epilepsy patients and their mothers in federal prison." ASA strongly disagrees.
DNC chairwoman and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is taking heat from activists over her failure to vote for the Rohrbacher-Farr Amendment and her lack of support for the state's medical-marijuana initiative.
New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd's frantic account of her getting stoned on a chocolate bar in Denver has created a media frenzy. While Chris Hayes takes it pretty seriously on MSNBC, Conan O'Brien predictably goes for the laughs.
Leave it to NIDA to remind us of the "Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use." In a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, four doctors report that "the question of whether marijuana is harmful remains the subject of heated debate."
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went to Denver to check out the new legal marijuana scene there. After eating a cannabis-infused chocolate bar, she found herself "in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours."
The Obama administration's leading proponent in the War on Drugs, Gil Kerlikowske, exited his position as Drug Czar and has pivoted into the head job at Customs and Border Protection.
Since it's Hemp History Week, we recommend that you buy a hemp product or two, like a few bars or bottles of Dr. Bronner's hemp-based soaps.
Nassau County police beat a 20-year-old man they pulled over for a cracked windshield. They say he was trying to eat marijuana, he says he was hit in the face and the officer kept punching for no apparent reason.
"Weed for Votes" wass the battle cry for the primary election in San Jose, California. To encourage turnout, 10 marijuana collectives in the city offered "everything from discounts to free medicine" to patients who prove they voted.
Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon likes to attend awards shows stoned, but after an hour on the red carpet, she gets hungry. "They would do very well to pass out munchies," she advises.
