#1 Obama Administration: Don't Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions
United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors in October directing them to not "focus federal resources ... on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for...

For anyone who missed the worldwide corporate media's hysterical anti-pot headlines last week, here's a sampling:

Cannabis more damaging to adolescent brains than previously known

via Emax Health
"New research shows that teens who consume cannabis daily can suffer anxiety and depression. Smoking marijuana can have long-term irreversible...

Writing in the book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green, 2009), I argue that it is irrational for our society to condone, if not encourage, the use of alcohol -- an intoxicant that directly contributes to tens of thousands of deaths...

Police arrested 847,864 persons for marijuana violations in 2008, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The total marks a three percent decrease in marijuana arrests from 2007, when law enforcement arrested a record 872,721 Americans for cannabis-related violations, but still remains...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has once again released their annual survey on "drug use and health" -- you know, the one where representatives of the federal government go door-to-door and ask Americans if they are presently breaking state and federal law by using illicit...

Two just-published studies assessing adults' risk of cancer have reported wildly divergent, and fairly extraordinary, outcomes. One study you may have read about. The other has been ignored entirely by the mainstream media. But no doubt the results of both will surprise you.

First, the study you may have heard...

They say that every action spurs an opposite reaction. That certainly seems to be the case in Congress.

Just days after Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, along with 13 cosponsors, reintroduced HR 2835, the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009 in Congress, Republican Rep. Mark Kirk (Illinois) has...

"This ain't your grandfather's or your father's marijuana. This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you."- Mark R. Trouville, DEA Miami, speaking to the Associated Press (June 22, 2007)

Government claims that today's pot is more potent, and thus more dangerous to health, than...

In a revelation that I'm sure will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that ex-Drug Czar John Walters is still full of sh*t.

Responding on CNN last night to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call to debate the merits of taxing and regulating the adult...

What would you do with an extra $14 billion dollars? NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, wants to find out.

This morning (April 15), members of NORML presented a mock check to the U.S Treasury Department in the sum of $14 billion dollars. The check...

If you thought President Barack Obama's mocking response to the question of whether "taxing and regulating cannabis would raise revenue and reduce prohibition-associated violence" couldn't be any worse, just listen to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stumble below.

Speaking live at an online Town Hall Meeting Thursday morning, President Barack Obama pledged "to open up the White House to the American people."

Well, to some of the American people, that is.

As for those tens of millions of you who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated...

We Ought To Be Condemning The Illogical Laws That Brand Him A Criminal

Add decorated Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps to the growing list of successful Americans who happens to indulge in marijuana during his down time. The tabloid news story is making international headlines, though it's difficult to...

Just days before the FBI released statistics indicating that police in 2007 arrested over 872,000 Americans -- the most ever reported in law enforcement history -- for violating pot laws, reigning Drug Czar John Walters alleged on C-Span, "We didn't arrest 800,000 marijuana users. ... That's [a] lie."

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, colloquially known as MRSA or 'the superbug,' is now responsible for more annual US deaths than AIDS. Yet despite this sobering statistic, it's unlikely that either JAMA or anyone in the mainstream US media...

You can learn a lot from a rat -- especially if the subject is medical cannabis.

According to a just-published study from the University of Milan -- you didn't actually think medicinal marijuana research took place in this country, did you? -- the administration of whole-plant cannabis extracts...

The US government's longstanding denial of medical marijuana research and use is an irrational and morally bankrupt public policy. On this point, few Americans disagree. As for the question of "why" federal officials maintain this inflexible and inhumane policy, well that's another story.

This fact was evident in the varied...

Senator Ted Kennedy is putting forward a brave face following his recent surgery but the sad reality remains. Even with successful surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment, gliomas -- a highly aggressive form of brain cancer that strikes approximately 10,000 Americans annually -- tragically claim the lives of 75...

Government claims of highly potent pot must be taken with a grain of salt. As is the case with any black market commodity, definitive facts are difficult if not impossible to come by.

That said, even by the University of Mississippi's own admission, the average THC in...

As the author of the recent publication, "Emerging Clinical Applications for Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Review of the Scientific Literature", I take umbrage with those politicians and law enforcement officials who argue, "Smoked marijuana is not medicine." This allegation -- most recently asserted on the DEA's new website...