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Ryan Grim

Kentucky Hemp Lobby Makes Inroads In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.08.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A chance encounter at last weekend's Kentucky Derby may have given the hemp industry the break it's been looking for since the crop was ...

Lucia Graves

White House Budget Emphasizes Drug Punishment Over Treatment

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration budget released Wednesday emphasizes drug abuse punishment and interdiction over treatment and prevention, desp...

Ryan J. Reilly

Marijuana Eradication By Law Enforcement Plummets By More Than Half

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The number of marijuana plants eradicated by law enforcement has plummeted in the last few years from a record high of over 10 million p...

Accused Cocaine Kingpin Brought To New York For Trial

AP | PETE YOST and LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 04.06.2013 | Crime

NEW YORK -- A former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international cocaine tra...

DEA Memo: Apple iMessages 'Impossible To Intercept'

The Huffington Post | Adam Goldberg | Posted 04.04.2013 | Technology

The federal government seems a bit frustrated by Apple iMessages. CNET News' Declan McCullagh and Jennifer Van Grove have uncovered an internal doc...

Feds Oppose Pot Legalization Despite Nationwide Support

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics

The majority of Americans support marijuana legalization, a new Pew poll released on Thursday found. This is the first time that pot legalization h...

Mexican Drug Cartels Penetrate Deeper Into U.S. Than Ever Before

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 04.01.2013 | Crime

CHICAGO — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to...

Matt Sledge

Medical Marijuana Case May Head Back To Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- A medical marijuana group filed a petition on Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, asking for a do-...

Former DEA Chiefs Call For Nullification

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.05.2013 | Politics

CHICAGO -- Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws ...

Ryan J. Reilly

Mel McDonald, Reagan-Appointed Federal Prosecutor, Backs Medical Marijuana (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.19.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Melvin McDonald, a Mormon Republican who previously served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, describes himself as a "leader ...

Are Drugs Today Really Cheaper, Purer, and More Available Than Ever?

Rafael Lemaitre | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics
Rafael Lemaitre

Some critics go so far as to say that "illegal drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today" than ever before. This is a compelling argument and a powerful sound bite, to be sure. There's just one problem: It's not true.

Obama's Drug Problem

William Chambliss | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics
William Chambliss

Law-enforcement agencies are themselves "addicted" to drugs. They have grown dependent on the crime-fighting statistics generated by drug arrests. The employment of prison staff depends on extraordinary rates of incarceration.

Ryan Grim

After Medical Marijuana Mess, Obama's Prosecutors Face Big Decision On Pot

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.08.2013 | Politics

OAKLAND, Calif. -- In the summer of 2007, the owners of Harborside Health Center, then and now the most prominent medical marijuana dispensary in the ...

Ryan J. Reilly

DEA: Marijuana Legalization Promotes Drug Use

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.24.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Recent state efforts to legalize marijuana pose a challenge for the Drug Enforcement Administration because they would increase marijuan...

Ryan J. Reilly

Wife Of Medical Marijuana Provider Asks Obama To End Family's 'Nightmare'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The wife of a California medical marijuana provider who is facing 10 years in prison after being indicted by federal authorities last ye...

DEA Agent Arranged Prostitute For Secret Service Agent

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWEL | Posted 03.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A Drug Enforcement Administration agent arranged to hire a prostitute for a Secret Service agent in Colombia in advance of a presidentia...

DEA Agents Arranged Prostitute For Secret Service Agent

NBC News | Posted 01.10.2013 | Politics

Two U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents ā€œfacilitated a sexual encounterā€ between a prostitute and a U.S. Secret Service agent days before ...

Feds May Seek To Undermine Laws Legalizing Marijuana

The New York Times | CHARLIE SAVAGE | Posted 12.07.2012 | Politics

Senior White House and Justice Department officials are considering plans for legal action against Colorado and Washington that could undermine voter-...

States Thumb Their Noses at the Drug War

Anthony Gregory | Posted 02.04.2013 | Politics
Anthony Gregory

This whole controversy raises questions about dominant liberal understandings of federal power. Since 1996, drug policy developments have put the lie to the federal government's reputation as a bulwark of civil liberties, humanitarian rights, and rational policy.

Federal Drug Enforcement: A Clear and Present Danger

Norm Stamper | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Norm Stamper

The president, in refusing to bow to the intimidation tactics of the drug enforcement industry, has paved the way for my state, and possibly others, to show the federal government a new way forward on marijuana policy.

Medical Marijuana Advocates Want Drug Reclassified

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 10.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court in Washington is considering whether marijuana should be reclassified from its current status as a dangerous dru...

DEA: States Legalizing Marijuana Will Violate Federal Law

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 10.15.2012 | Denver

On a Monday teleconference call, former Drug Enforcement Agency administrators and directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy voiced a st...

Lucia Graves

Federal Court To Mull Marijuana As Medicine

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 10.15.2012 | Politics

It started with a coalition of disgruntled Americans, then a handful of governors took up the cause last year, and now -- for the first time in nearly...

DEA's Senior Citizens at It Again With Their Scare Tactics: Go Play Golf Already

Jamie Haase | Posted 11.17.2012 | Crime
Jamie Haase

This article is a plea to the citizens of Colorado, Washington and Oregon. Please do not surrender to the threats and scare tactics of the United States government, even if Eric Holder once again declares his opposition to the measure.

Case On Medical Benefits Of Marijuana Heads To Federal Court

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 08.01.2012 | Politics

Medical marijuana advocates will get their day in court later this year, when they argue the therapeutic value of cannabis. The United States Court...