You know Kevin Sabet, the head of Project SAM, the think-tank dedicated to maintaining arrests of marijuana users for the purpose of forcing them into rehab with urine tests backed by the threat of incarceration. Imagine my surprise when I get this tweet from @KevinSabet:

Just out: 39%...

Readers of this blog know that there has been an ongoing debate between the Marijuana Policy Project and the marijuana reform organizations in Oregon. (See "MPP's "Rob Kampia warns Oregon not to try marijuana legalization in 2014" and "Will MPP doom a 2014 chance at Oregon marijuana legalization?")

The bombings that took place in Boston were a heinous crime carried out by the Tsarnaev Brothers that killed and maimed American citizens. It seems the older brother had become radicalized in his hatred of U.S. foreign policy and his younger brother, called Jahar, seemed to be along for the ride. How...

When you battle drug prohibitionists long enough you're bound to read some crazy things. The latest comes from a boardmember of Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana -- Kevin Sabet's anti-pot propaganda organ) named Dr. Christian Thurstone. In his latest blog screed entitled "Higher and Higher", he laments that...

With Washington state's I-502 legalization came a 5ng/ml limit of active THC in blood.  This is now per se evidence to convict on a DUI charge.

In Colorado, the governor is poised to sign a bill creating a 5ng/ml limit that has failed to pass in six previous attempts. This would...

It's 4:20 -- the first one! -- here in the Mile High City. I am up late, as I usually am before a big gig, getting all the digital stuff in its place, ironing clothes, and catching up on what has been a horrific week for news in America. My...

The first 4/20 weekend following historic marijuana legalization votes in Washington and Colorado is just a week away. We here at The Russ Belville Show and 420RADIO.org are excited to bring you great new tunes...

I've been following the story of Joshua Hakken.  Louisiana police found him and his wife, Sharyn, in a hotel room last June with their two little boys, some pot and a pipe, and "weapons", after being notified of a disturbance. Police claim the couple was "under the influence of...

Have you seen the headlines? Or heard them on my live weekday show on 420RADIO at 3 p.m. Pacific Time (shameless plugs are the salary for a HuffPo writing gig, ya dig?)

Marijuana legalization passes in Colorado, Washington

New Survey Finds Record Majority Support for...

Former ONDCP adviser Kevin Sabet is at it again.

I've warned readers before about the "kinder gentler drug war" ideas that Sabet has been peddling.  Now with much fanfare and the bipartisan additions of conservative David Frum and liberal Patrick Kennedy, Sabet has launched Project SAM,...

Once again, Kevin Sabet -- the go-to guy to defend the drug war only 7 percent of Americans support -- is back to confuse and frighten you, dear reader.  It seems more than half of you out there (well, way more than half of you here) want to legalize marijuana,...

This morning at 6 a.m. I launched SmartApproaches.com. It is a page-for-page satire of the website LearnAboutSAM.com, which was recently mentioned in various news media as the front page for Project SAM. It uses actual policy positions and rhetorical claims from Project SAM and peppers them...

So you say you don't smoke pot, so how could the War on Drugs affect me?

Watch that video. It's in Texas, but it could be anywhere in America... well, except now Washington and Colorado, because marijuana is...

I had begun writing this after two people got shot up in the mall just six miles south of me. I had gone through the entire media cycle of yet another random spraying of bullets in public places, this time with familiar local news anchors. I took to the social...

A crowd of approximately 150 gathered at the base of the iconic Seattle Space Needle to openly smoke marijuana at 12:00 this morning. The revelers had come to celebrate the moment marijuana possession became legal in Washington State, thanks to last month's passage of Initiative 502.

Not one...

Through my sources I have learned that Rob Kampia, the head of Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has told numerous leaders of marijuana reform organizations in Oregon in person to not attempt to craft a marijuana legalization initiative for the 2014 election.  The clear message is that any efforts that form for 2014...

Some of the most vocal opponents of marijuana legalization this election cycle were the people who smoke pot, usually under the protection of their state's medical use law, but felt like the initiative on the ballot wasn't "True Legalization™". As I predicted, as soon as legalization passed, they would be...

This week, The Huffington Post is doing a feature called "Shadow Conventions" where they address topics that neither the Democratic nor Republican conventions will address.  Today they took a look at the War on (Certain American Citizens Using Non-Pharmaceutical,...

Today our guest on The Russ Belville Show is Stephany Lee, the U.S. female 72kg champion wrestler who defeated No. 1 seed Ali Bernard 2-0 at the Olympic Trials in Iowa. So why is Ali Bernard representing Team USA in London at the Olympics, and not...

Dr. Kevin Sabet, former right-hand man for Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske and champion of the new "Kinder Gentler Drug War" rhetoric that eschews "War on Drugs" metaphors without actually ending the War on Drugs, has a new post up on Huffington Post...