Search results for "War on Drugs "
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Politics
Cannabis Advocates Blast DNC Chair Over Interview
January 13, 2016Advocates had strong words, including a resignation call, for Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz following...
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Politics
Uruguay: The Little Country that Could
December 22, 2015Little Uruguay, population of 3.5 million, is leading the world. The tiny South American nation that...
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Joint Opinions
The Melissa Etheridge Interview: This Is M.E.
December 13, 2015Melissa Etheridge is known around the globe as a songwriting musician who’s earned all the badges...
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Joint Opinions
Medical Marijuana Advances in Colombia
November 25, 2015Earlier this month, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced a decree that created a regulatory legal...
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Cultivation
Strain Hunters: Colombia – In Search of Punto Rojo, Colombian Gold & Limon Verde
November 8, 2015Arjan Roskam has travelled deep into the FARC rebel-controlled territory of the Colombian jungles in the...
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Politics
Bernie Sanders Talks Cannabis Legalization
October 23, 2015Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders made an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” this week to talk...
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Joint Opinions
GOP Debate on Cannabis Represents Progress
September 22, 2015What happened last Wednesday was inconceivable as recently as eight years ago. Four Republican candidates for...
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Politics
Poll: GOP Voters Support Ending Federal Cannabis Prosecution
August 27, 2015In the early primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa, the majority of Republican voters believe...
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Economics
Hundreds of Sheriffs Request Armored Assault Vehicles to Fight Cannabis
August 13, 2015Although the Pentagon has been supplying state and local police departments with military grade weaponry to...
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Legal
Obama to Grant Clemency for More Non-Violent Drug Offenders
July 8, 2015Over the course of the next several weeks, President Obama is expected to issue executive orders...
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Cannabis
Film Review: The Culture High
May 12, 2015“The Culture High” is to legalized marijuana what “Endless Summer” is to surfing. It’s a classic...
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Politics
Addressing Cannabis in State of the Union
January 20, 2015Tonight the President of the United States will address the nation in the annual State of...
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Legal
Bermuda Could Soon Ease Its Marijuana Laws
May 18, 2014Government officials in Bermuda released an optimistic report earlier this week, which indicates support for legalizing...
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Politics
This 4/20 Tell Obama You Want Clemency For Prisoners Serving a Life Sentence For Marijuana
April 18, 2014The United States Department of Justice has been making a lot of noise lately about reducing...
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Joint Opinions
Survey Shows Majority of Police Officers Support Marijuana Policy Reform
April 14, 2014Though not conducted with the methodological rigor of the Pew poll that came out this week showing 54...
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Joint Opinions
Attorney General Holder Announces Administration Will Consider Rescheduling Cannabis
April 6, 2014In response to growing national momentum towards cannabis re-legalization as well as an increasing number of...
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Economics
Uruguay: The Socialist Approach to Legalized Cannabis
April 2, 2014Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica is considered the world’s “poorest” president. He donates 90 percent of his...
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Medical
The University of Arizona PTSD Study Is the First of Many Medical Marijuana Studies
March 27, 2014Growing up on military bases, post-traumatic stress disorder is something you just get used to seeing....
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Legal
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: The Cops that Are Our Friends
March 12, 2014“Not one of the stated US drug policy goals of lowering the incidence of crime, addiction,...
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Films
The House I Live In, Directed by Eugene Jarecki
July 2, 2013“The House I Live In,” a moving and highbrow documentary on the human toll of the...