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Vivian McPeak, executive director of Seattle's Hempfest, speaks on the stage at Myrtle Edwards Park on August 19, 2011. (photo: Joshua Trujillo / Seattlepi.Com)On a day when most people are opening presents, Vivian McPeak has stood outside the Kin…

An anonymous Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, speaking exclusively with The Fix, paints a stark picture of the drug war along the US-Mexico Border. The cartels’ traffickers are punching through our borders without fear, he confirms, sup…

[img_assist|nid=29171|title=|desc=A man looks at a van containing the bodies of several men in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Thursday. Mexican authorities found 26 bodies in three vehicles abandoned near a major intersection, officials said.
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LOS ANGELES — The poet Javier Sicilia, whose son's murder inspired him to lead protest caravans against the drug war in Mexico, says he wants to resume the protest "from the other side of the problem."

Sicilia said he w…

By Stephen Shea

Chile’s Supreme Court late last week ruled that agricultural export company Agrofuturo Ltda. was unfairly treated by the government’s Chile’s Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) when SAG decided to retract per…

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July 21, 2011
Beyond Prohibition Foundation: Harper Government declares total war on marijuana, possession arrests jump 14%

Statistics Canada today released their annual crime statistics for Canada, revealing a startling i…

By Kellen Russoniello, George Washington Law School student, NORML legal intern
In the first sentence of a new report, current and former world leaders agree that “[t]he global war on drugs has failed.” They then call for drastic reform in both national and global drug policy. As the report recognizes, the current regime is a [...]

This is a startling article that affects everybody. It is an entirely different view of government operations and is worth reading. This article is from LUV News and is an excellent daily newsletter. It is very brief, covers about 4 stories a a day, al…

It’s a Christmas miracle. Conservative minister Pat Robertson made a surprising declaration on a recent episode of The 700 Club: He disagrees with the continued criminalization of marijuana.
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Marijuana is the largest cash crop in the United States coming in at an estimate of $35.8 billion a year, but in California alone, the value of its 8.6 million-pound harvest is worth about $14 billion, according to newly released state reports.
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