The world needs grown-ups. Yet we are a generation of fathers who seem to loathe adulthood, desperately clinging to our youth as we skateboard into ou...
Anthony Papa | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Our government's zero-tolerance anti-drug crusade reached a new low when police killed two innocent pet Labrador retrievers while improperly conducting a SWAT-style drug raid on the mayor's house.
LA Times | Posted 08.07.2008 | Entertainment
IN ""PINEAPPLE EXPRESS," he plays a visibly unwashed hippie pot dealer on the run from mobsters: a THC-addled naif with a crinkly smile, a curtain of ...
Daily Show | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment
Seth Rogen went on "The Daily Show" to promote his marijuana buddy movie "The Pineapple Express." Rogen cowrote the movie and stars in it, and as he t...
Paul Armentano | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
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?
John Carnevale | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business
Having spent eleven years in the Office of National Drug Control Policy, I can say that in contradiction to a recent report, we have little reason to believe that America has reached a turning point in the war on drugs.
Time | Sarah N. Lynch | Posted 07.14.2008 | Living
The Netherlands, with its permissive marijuana laws, may be known as the cannabis capital of the world. But a survey published this month in PLoS Medi...
Reuters | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
When a smoking ban comes into force in the Netherlands next Tuesday, it may kill the buzz for people who like to smoke their cannabis with tobacco. Bu...
Boston.com | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home
Police discovered a 10-foot-deep underground bunker Thursday afternoon in Carver that was allegedly used by a man for an extensive marijuana-growing o...
MyFox Colorado | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
One pro-marijuana group is calling on the government to allow marijuana in smoking lounges at airports across the country. Cigarette smoking at Denve...
Paul Armentano | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
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?
Paul Armentano | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
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.
Anthony Papa | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
A tenfold increase in marijuana arrests over the previous decade is a figure marked by startling racial and gender disparities, according to a report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
WASHINGTON — Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may vie...
LiveNews | Kelly Fedor | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business
Police have seized more than $3.5 million worth of cannabis in raids on another five homes in Sydney's west. Seven people have been arrested after ra...
Tony Newman | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
When one considers the experiences of veterans, it is understandable that many would suffer from PTSD and take drugs to deal with their mental and physical trauma.
Reuters | Will Dunham | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
ong-term heavy use of marijuana may cause two important brain structures to shrink, Australian researchers said on Monday. Brain scans showed the hip...
Tony Newman | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
The application of the government's zero-tolerance prohibition policies on drug use in public housing are overtly racist, classist, ineffective and inhumane.
Vince Beiser | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Many currently incarcerated for drug use are no different than the young Barack Obama, or millions of other Americans like him -- curious kids experimenting with intoxicants for kicks.
Current | Phillip Eastman | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living
The 35-year-old son of a prominent cannabis rights activist goes back to school...to study pot (at Oaksterdam University in Oakland). So, what do ...
Reuters | Will Dunham | Posted 05.13.2008 | Living
Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke, U.S. government resea...
Tony Newman | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Once convicted of a drug offense, one can lose college financial aid, food stamps, public housing and possibly even voting rights. Money wasted and lives ruined... and for what?
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
AP | Posted 03.11.2008 | Entertainment
DRIGGS, Idaho — Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caug...
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
It's impossible to describe the relationship between politicians, lobbyists, corporations, and campaign cash -- and have it come out sounding different than what a prostitute does for a living.
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Details.com | Karl Taro Greenfeld | Posted 08.12.2008 | Style