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Economics

The DEA Drained $18 Million Last Year Destroying Pot Plants

The DEA’s mission is simple: Search and destroy. At the expense of hardworking taxpayers, the DEA...

Politics

Drug Policy Reform on Center Stage at UNGASS

This 4/20, while many cannabis users will be somewhere at a smoke out, the most hardcore...

Legal

Federal Court Ruling Stands: DOJ Cannot Target MMJ Providers Operating Within State Law

This week cannabis activists going to battle in the War on Drugs officially gained a huge...

Politics

A Quick Analysis of MPP’s Ohio Medical Marijuana Initiative

While members of the Ohio state legislature are reportedly wasting time on a fact-finding tour to...

Legal

A Guide to CA’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act

In October of this year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Medical Marijuana and Safety Act...

Politics

New Bill Could Eliminate DEA’s Marijuana Eradication Program

Despite an increasing number of states passing laws allowing cannabis to be cultivated and used for...

In The Magazine

Cannabis Now Interviews Tommy Chong

At 76-years-old, Tommy Chong is at the height of his career. It was nearly 40 years...

Politics

Congress Passes Amendments to End War on Cannabis

Congress signaled its support for nationwide reform by voting in favor of several amendments that would...

Cultivation

How the Peace-Pipe May Be a New Way to Exploit Tribes

International sovereignty is more gray area than it is black and white and tribes growing cannabis...

Legal

Feds Admit Cannabis Kills Brains Tumor Cells

A new report issued from a U.S. government-funded research group called the National Institute on Drug...

Politics

Anti-Marijuana Group Project SAM Uses Federally Funded Non-Profits to Push 2015 Legislation

Earlier this year, a wave of conservative states passed legislation legalizing possession of medical cannabis extracts...

Joint Opinions

A House Divided Will Fall: How Marijuana Legalization Brings Society a “Democracy Dividend”

One of the greatest and least acknowledged failures of marijuana prohibition is the damage it has...

Joint Opinions

Survey Shows Majority of Police Officers Support Marijuana Policy Reform

Though not conducted with the methodological rigor of the Pew poll that came out this week showing 54...

Joint Opinions

Want Us to Support Obamacare? Cover Our Medical Marijuana

The current administration’s history-defining attempt to overhaul the American health care system in order to (supposedly)...

Politics

Why Dianne Feinstein Opposes Marijuana Legalization

California’s senior senator Dianne Feinstein has joined Governor Jerry Brown in voicing her disapproval of marijuana...

Medical

Research Shows THC May Fight HIV

Rhesus Macaque Mother and Child. Researchers at Louisiana State University (LSU) have released a study that...

Joint Opinions

Blue Collar Cannabis Economics

Way back during the Vietnam War days when I was just a sprout, I avoided Vietnam...

Politics

In Slamming Obama, DEA Administrator Presents Reformers With Rare Opportunity

In a speech last week to the National Sheriff’s Association, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart had harsh...

Joint Opinions

Will Legalization End the War on Weed? Doubtful.

With little over a month left until the new legalization laws in Washington and Colorado go...

Joint Opinions

Gross Injustice

$2.4 Million Unpaid Tax Bill Leads to $25 Million Forfeiture and 21 Years in Prison