Stand With Richard Lee: Tell Obama to End the Medical Marijuana Raids

Stand With Richard Lee: Tell Obama to End the Medical Marijuana Raids

Earlier this week, agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service raided several properties owned by longtime marijuana law reform advocate Richard Lee. Richard has devoted over a million dollars of his own money and countless hours of his life to championing Proposition 19 and marijuana legalization in California, to say nothing of all the time and passion he has poured into helping revitalize his community of Downtown Oakland, can you give him just a minute of your time and sign his petition [...]

Stand With Richard Lee: Tell Obama to End the Medical Marijuana Raids

Stand With Richard Lee: Tell Obama to End the Medical Marijuana Raids

Earlier this week, agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service raided several properties owned by longtime marijuana law reform advocate Richard Lee. Richard has devoted over a million dollars of his own money and countless hours of his life to championing Proposition 19 and marijuana legalization in California, to say nothing of all the time and passion he has poured into helping revitalize his community of Downtown Oakland, can you give him just a minute of your time and sign his petition [...]

Debunking a Former Drug Czar

Debunking a Former Drug Czar

Ex-Drug Czar and lifelong (selective) prohibitionist William Bennett recently took to the mainstream blogosphere to criticize Pat Robertson’s ‘born again’ public support for marijuana legalization. Bennett’s specific criticisms of legalization — that it would simultaneously allow for “open and unrestricted drug use” by all, and that the plant’s perceived social costs would outweigh any economic benefits reaped by regulation — are predictably well worn, but they are nonetheless worth addressing. An excerpt of reply to Bennett is included below. You can read the full commentary here. Health and Societal Costs [...]

Lawmakers In 5 States Tell Feds To Back Off

Lawmakers In 5 States Tell Feds To Back Off

Elected lawmakers in five states have a message for the federal government: Don’t interfere with state medical marijuana laws. In an open letter to the federal government, lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle called on the government to stop using scarce law enforcement resources on taking pot away from medical marijuana patients. “States [...]

Colombia Bill Would Decriminalize Drug Plant Cultivation

Colombia Bill Would Decriminalize Drug Plant Cultivation

Phillip Smith

Colombia and Peru are the world's largest coca (and cocaine) producers, with Bolivia in third place. In both Peru and Bolivia, national laws allow for some legal coca cultivation, although illicit cultivation also occurs. There is…

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