Various California cities, including Oakland, are already raising pot to keep prices down for the legal medical trade.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
For rope, paper, clothing, food, fuel -- hemp has been a critical crop for cash and survival for 6,000 years. Today it contributes billions of dollars to the German, Canadian and Chinese economies.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
The Rhode Island legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto of a medical marijuana law Tuesday afternoon by an overwhelming margin, paving the way for ...
Paul Armentano | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
Facts play virtually no role in political drug policy debate, and ignorance hardly disqualifies someone from holding elected office.
AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
NEW YORK — The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Ye...
Zorianna Kit | Posted 06.03.2009 | Entertainment
Formed when they were teenagers in the 70s, Anvil is currently working on their 14th album. I sat down with the duo for an exclusive chat for HuffPost.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
A newly released report about marijuana potency undermines previous claims by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) that the drug's poten...
Slate Magazine | William Saletan | Posted 05.27.2009 | Home
We've taken the caffeine out of coffee, the alcohol out of beer, and the smoke out of tobacco. What's next?...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics
The U.S. Supreme Court handed medical marijuana patients and advocates a resounding victory on Monday, refusing to hear a case brought by San Diego Co...
Paul Armentano | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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.
Jeff Norman | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Will Obama be the very last person in the country to join the discussion, or just one of the last?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
There's freedom, and then there's "total freedom," Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told a right-wing news service, CNSNews.com, on Friday, engaging the ou...
buzzfeed.com | Posted 04.20.2009 | Entertainment
In honor of 4-20, here's a collection of Hollywood's highest celebrities to inform and inspire you. Happy Pot Day! 1. James Franco and Seth ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
Norm Stamper | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?
Anthony Papa | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
April 20th is "National Pot Smoking Day," a counterculture holiday where people across the world celebrate the conspicuous consumption of marijuana.
Tony Newman | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
It is disingenuous to connect the average American's marijuana consumption to the horrific violence that is resulting from Mexico's drug war.
Washington Post | Karl Vick | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
With little notice and even less controversy, marijuana is now available as a medical treatment in California to almost anyone who tells a willing phy...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
Judge Jim Gray isn't the bleary-eyed stereotype of an advocate for the decriminalization of marijuana. Gray, who has never tried the drug, is a former attorney in the Navy JAG Corps, and a Judge in conservative Orange Country, CA.
Jim Gilliam | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
After my double lung transplant, I lost a lot of weight, to the point where it was life-threatening. My lung doctor suggested "marinol," the synthetic (and legal) version of THC.
Chicago Tribune | Christopher Latham | Posted 03.23.2009 | Chicago
A late-night fire at a residence on the Far Northwest Side turned up an elaborate marijuana-growing operation and led to one arrest, police said....
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
The power of ideas is nothing against the power of the purse. Those of us born in the mid-Sixties can be forgiven for not understanding this.
Sam Greenfield | Posted 03.17.2009 | Media
Phelps didn't do anything except smoke pot. Would anyone like to bet their house -- if you still have one -- that Lauer never smoked pot? Of course not.
The ITT List | Posted 02.24.2009 | Green
If California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has his way, the Golden State might become known as the Green State to pot smokers around the country. During a...
Warren Holstein | Posted 02.10.2009 | Comedy
Marijuana Linked to Aggressive Testicular Cancer: Yet more bad news for young hot blunted American tokers this month.
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Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green