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La Familia Cartel Targeted, Police Arrest More Than 300 Across U.S.

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT and SEAN MURPHY | Posted 10.23.2009 | World


OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that d...

Legalize It and I Will Industrialize It: Industrial Hemp Is the Engine to Kickstart This Economy

Anna Brones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


Anna Brones

Multipurpose and versatile -- hemp makes its way into everything from ice cream to paint to clothing -- hemp could be called the wonder resource.

LA's District Attorney Vows To Shut Down Marijuana Shops

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


LOS ANGELES — Clay Tepel knew there were risks to setting up a medical marijuana shop: it could lose money, be robbed or be raided by authoritie...

Hemp Protest at DEA Leads to Arrests

Anna Brones | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


Anna Brones

In the eyes of farmers and members of the hemp industry, legalizing industrial hemp production is not only a question of economics, but national interest.

Pot Arrests for Year 2008 Second Highest Total Ever Reported

Paul Armentano | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics


Paul Armentano

NORML Director Allen St. Pierre: Present enforcement policies are costing American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and having no impact on marijuana availability or use.

Marijuana Use By The Numbers

Paul Armentano | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics


Paul Armentano

By age 25, 54 percent of the population has admittedly used marijuana. Does anyone still believe that marijuana prohibition is working -- or that all of these people deserve to be behind bars?

Celebrity "Roadkill": A Black Box Warning for Physicians

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment


Gary Cohan

How can a vulnerable physician resist the temptation to "bend the rules" for these "tabloid elites?"

DEA Forcing Agents To Illegally Work In Afghanistan, Claim Pilots

McClatchy | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


WASHINGTON -- As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend th...

DEA Agents: Administration Forcing Us To Afghanistan

McClatchy | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics


As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration's presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent pilots contend that they're bei...

Don't Believe the Hype! Potent Pot, So What?

Paul Armentano | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Paul Armentano

If nothing else, the government's annual "new and improved pot" claims are good advertising for marijuana dealers. As for the rest of the public, it's time for a reality check.

What Do You Know, the Ex-Drug Czar Is Still Full of Sh*t!

Paul Armentano | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics


Paul Armentano

Walters demonstrated that he remains an unrepentant liar -- even though he's no longer paid by the federal government to be one.

Venezuela Applauds US For Drug Seizure In Rare Gesture

AP | CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 05.10.2009 | World


CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela gave the U.S. Coast Guard credit on Thursday for cooperation in a large drug seizure _ a break in bitter squabbli...

Ryan Grim

Hemp Bill Introduced In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics


A bipartisan group of agitating members of Congress introduced legislation Thursday to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp. Currently eight states...

President Obama: What Is So Funny About Taxing And Regulating Marijuana?

Paul Armentano | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics


Paul Armentano

America's stringent enforcement of pot prohibition, which artificially inflates black market pot prices and ensures that only criminal enterprises will be involved in the production and sale of this commodity, is helping to fuel violence. Wow, funny stuff!

Ryan Grim

Bolivian President Chews Coca During Speech At UN

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics


Evo Morales isn't afraid to practice what he preaches. The Bolivian president, an outspoken proponent of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, brought ...

Ryan Grim

Holder Vows To End Raids On Medical Marijuana Clubs

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics


Attorney General Eric Holder said at a press conference Wednesday that the Justice Department will no longer raid medical marijuana clubs that are est...

YouTube Hallucinogen May Be Banned, Despite Medical Properties

NY Times | Kevin Sack and Brent McDonald | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home


DALLAS -- With a friend videotaping, 27-year-old Christopher Lenzini of Dallas took a hit of Salvia divinorum, regarded as the world's most potent hal...

When It Comes To Medical Pot, Rats Are Smarter Than Our Politicians

Paul Armentano | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics


Paul Armentano

If rats can deduce that whole cannabis works better as a medicine than a single synthesized molecule, what's stopping our politicians from reaching this same conclusion?

What Your Government Knows About Cannabis And Cancer -- And Isn't Telling You

Paul Armentano | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics


Paul Armentano

What possible advances in the treatment of cancer could have been achieved had U.S. government officials chosen to advance, not suppress, research into the anti-cancer effects of cannabis?

Don't Buy The 'Potent Pot' Hype

Paul Armentano | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics


Paul Armentano

While the feds' latest "reefer rhetoric" may sound alarming, there's little substance behind the hype. The average THC in domestically grown marijuana has remained unchanged for nearly a decade.