Explosives, one live rocket launcher, a cache of guns, marijuana and cocaine were confiscated Wednesday from a home in unincorporated Antioch, and a f...
Anthony Papa | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Marijuana is an indispensable medicine that helps mitigate chronic pain and stimulates appetite. Patients suffering from cancer, AIDS and other forms of disease greatly benefit from access to marijuana.
The Denver Daily News | Gene Davis | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Following this month's bust of 14,500 marijuana plants that allegedly were in part being grown by Mexican migrant workers, a Colorado Springs senator ...
The Denver Post | John Ingold | Posted 09.30.2009 | Denver
Two doctors account for more than a third of the patients on Colorado's medical-marijuana registry, and five doctors account for more than 50 percent ...
Tony Newman | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
In the last week both Mexico and Argentina made international news by passing a law and making a major Supreme Court ruling calling for low-level drug offenders to receive treatment instead of jail.
AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
MEXICO CITY — Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday – a move that prosecutors say makes sense eve...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago
Nearly $2.5 million worth of marijuana went up in smoke Wednesday when Cook County Forest Preserve police and DEA agents set fire to a cache of plants...
Norm Stamper | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
I do not believe drug policy reform should end with the legalization of marijuana. Yet, when asked to contribute a foreword to the new book Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink, I eagerly accepted.
Paul Korda | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing a widening of the War on Drugs. The enemy -- organized crime, particularly the Mexican Drug Cartel -- is following a Scorched Earth Policy, literally.
AP | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style
WASHINGTON — Forty years after Woodstock, some baby boomers haven't let go of one part of the 1960s: getting high on illicit drugs. The percent...
Anthony Citrano | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
There hasn't been a more confusing legal environment regarding marijuana than there is now in California, as recent multi-agency raids on two L.A. medical marijuana dispensaries demonstrate.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON and ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 09.18.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — In 2005, a rebellious and sporadically employed Israeli man flew to New York to give up a kidney to save an American businessman. For...
Holly Cara Price | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
Celia has entered a whole new world; from cosmetic sales to drug dealing and now, dios mio! she's exploring lesbianism. That's how it happens, I've heard.
Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
A fire that has burned more than 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County over the last week was started in an illegal marijuana growing area operated by ...
Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York
He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.
Daily Herald | Jameel Naqvi | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago
McHenry County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday chopped up and burned more than 2,500 marijuana plants found in an unincorporated area near Woodstock....
Abe Silk | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
Vick has paid for his transgressions. He was once the highest paid athlete in the NFL, he had lucrative endorsement deals, real estate holdings, and business ventures, all of which are gone.
Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
Brad Pitt for mayor! Pitt's interview with Ann Curry aired on Thursday's 'Today' show, and New Orleans' most prominent Katrina rebuilder thanks to ...
Diane Francis | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family.
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
While there are several reasons for legalizing Cannabis, hemp, which comes from the same plant genus as marijuana, definitely has the most tangible be...
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
The war on drugs may be a noble intention, but the illegal growing of marijuana is destroying our environment and we need to step in. Primarily run...
AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York
WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) -- Police have arrested a Long Island ice cream truck driver on charges of buying illegal drugs. Nassau County police say the 22...
Mason Tvert | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Just after President Obama's top drug policy official told the country that marijuana is "dangerous," the President himself was touting the enjoyable effects of alcohol.
Chicago Public Radio | Travis Truitt | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn says he's open to local efforts to decriminalize marijuana....
STNG | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago