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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...

Grow

Cannabis Sprouts Roots on Tribal Land

Photo by Azel Praer Barry Brautman, CEO of FoxBarry Farms and United Cannabis Corp., has made...

In History

Feds Legalize Cannabis on Native American Lands

Photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli In a completely unexpected move from the United States Justice Department,...

Legal

New Report Slams DEA Scheduling Practices

The Drug Enforcement Administration is responsible for impeding and rejecting the science of marijuana and other...

Politics

Congressional Vote Will Not End DEA Cannabis Raids

While last night’s 219-189 U.S. House vote in favor of amending HR 4660, a criminal justice funding...

Economics

Seeds of Hope: The DEA and Kentucky Hemp

The DEA has agreed to expedite a permit application needed to release more than 250 pounds...

Politics

Attorney General: It’s Unclear Whether Federal Government Can Force States to Criminalize Drugs

Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee today for an oversight hearing in...

Legal

Despite Drug Policy Reform, Half of U.S. Prisoners Still Serving Time for Non-Violent Drug Crimes

On Jan. 30, the Obama Administration announced an early release plan for non-violent drug offenders serving...

Joint Opinions

Dollars and Sense: Marijuana Investment Group Hosts Shark-Tank Like Pitch Session for Cannabis Industry Investment

On Jan. 24, the Arcview Group, an investment group looking to finance new cannabis industry businesses, held...

Joint Opinions

Barack Obama: “No More Dangerous Than Alcohol” Is Opinion, Not Fact

Last week, President Obama was quoted in New Yorker magazine establishing that he indirectly feels marijuana...

Medical

3-Year-Old Undergoes Brain Surgery Without Pain Medication, Doctors Forbid Cannabis Use

The phone call I had with Dahlia Barnhart’s mother, Mo, still haunts me. Mo calmly described...

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...

Current Events

Single Arrest Made in Denver Dispensary Raids

This photo of Hector Diaz wearing a DEA baseball cap and holding up two authentic-looking semi-automatic...

Politics

VIDEO: Feds Green-Light Cannabis Legalization

Attorney General Eric Holder has told the governors of both Washington and Colorado the federal government...

Dispensaries

Thousands of Patients Threatened to Lose Safe Access

July 12, 2012 – Oakland, California – The federal attack on safe access for medical cannabis...