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We need to get a lot of work done to legalize marijuana, here’s some ways to help! Volunteer Get active helping build activism in Canada! Email the Senate on C-15: The Senate is going to be resuming debate on C-15 on September 15, we need everyone to email their provinces Senators. Organize Protests: May 1, [...]

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet Editor’s note: Come see Paul Armentano and many other top marijuana experts and advocates in discussion at NORML’s 38th national conference taking place this week from September 24–26 in San Francisco. Click here to learn more. Writing in the journal Science nearly four decades ago, New York State University sociologist Erich [...]

By Ramon Bracamontes / El Paso Times EL PASO — Legalizing marijuana in the United States would weaken Mexico’s powerful drug cartels, panelists at a War on Drugs conference said Tuesday. “If you take away half of their money, it will hurt them,” said William Martin, a sociology professor at Rice University who studies drug [...]

by Stuarte Harris As the father of three teen/tween children, I’m not at all keen on narcotics or indeed tobacco. I would prefer it if they were all “magicked” away. However, they are here to stay. What concerns me more is the totally delusory and ineffectual “war on drugs” that authorities in most developed countries [...]

C. Johnson SACRAMENTO, CA – Backers of two measures legalizing marijuana in California have been approved to begin collecting petition signatures, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. One initiative would allow people age 21 and older to grow, possess and transport marijuana for personal use. Local government could regulate and tax commercial production of [...]

Medical marijuana collectives’ suit comes as the city struggles to write a new ordinance. By John Hoeffel A newly formed association of Los Angeles medical marijuana collectives has challenged the city’s efforts to control dispensaries, claiming in a lawsuit that the 2-year-old moratorium is unconstitutionally vague and that the City Council violated state law when [...]

San Diego County finally issued its first medical marijuana identification cards on Monday, and San Bernardino County will follow suit next month — a full six years after being instructed to do so by the state legislature. “We had to wait until all the legal matters were settled before implementing the program,” Adrienne Collins Yancey [...]

Congressman Barney Frank takes stand for freedom By Colorado Springs Gazette When this page and Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts can find common ground on an issue, it’s likely an issue that has broad popular appeal. That’s the situation with legislation Frank introduced this summer that would essentially decriminalize small amounts of marijuana for personal [...]

On Sep. 15, Cy Vance Jr. overwhelmingly beat Leslie Crocker Snyder in the race to be Manhattan’s next district attorney. Since there is no Republican challenger, Vance will be voted into office in November. Snyder, who built her career as a ruthless prosecutor and judge, was beaten so bad that the Village Voice quoted her [...]

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox was in Atlanta to serve as Emory University’s commencement speaker Monday. Fox talked about how Atlanta has become a drug hub for Mexican drug cartels. The former president made a stunning statement fabout how the U.S. can stop the flow of drugs into the country.