Every past administrator of the 37-year-old Drug Enforcement Administration is calling on the Justice Department to sue California if its voters decide to legalize marijuana in November.
Peter Bensinger, who ran the D.E.A. from January 1976 through …
It was a law enforcement trifecta in support of California's Proposition 19 Monday, with a phalanx of police, prosecutors, and judges coming out in support of the marijuana legalization initiative in a pair of…
Campaigners for California’s Prop. 19 are in the final hours of their ‘money bomb’ — a single day when supporters all across the nation contribute to the campaign to legalize marijuana in California.
Below is their message to supporters:
This money bomb will show that the Yes on 19 campaign has the grassroots support needed to win [...]
TMCnetJust Say Now Responds to DEA Hysteria on Prop 19Firedoglake (blog)The fact is that the DEA ignored Eric Holder's directive, issued last year, to respect state medical marijuana laws. Just last week, they raided 5 medical …Former Anti-Drug C…
Redding Record Searchlight
September 12, 2010
by Dale Gieringer (Dale Gieringer is director of California NORML)
Opponents of marijuana legalization complain that Proposition 19 could endanger workplace safety. Employers, such as Ed Rullman of the Best Western Hilltop Inn in his Aug. 15 Op-Ed, object that Proposition 19 has a clause protecting employees against discrimination for private, adult [...]
A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs – once a taboo suggestion – is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war. The debate is only likely to grow more animated if Californi…
Medical marijuana measure on Phoenix ballot raises questionsArizona RepublicThe measure would allow terminally or seriously ill patients to qualify for medical marijuana with a doctor's approval, permit qualifying patients or their …Council to we…
If someone were to assemble a world ranking of unjustly imprisoned people, and if he were to put Marc Emery anywhere near the top, I would not be sympathetic. Canada’s so-called “prince of pot,” scheduled to be sentenced today in…
The primary mission of the police is to protect life and property by reducing crime. By passing Proposition 19 this November, voters can help themselves and the police by instantly preventing between 40 million and 208 million crimes a year in Cal…
Marc Emery, Canada’s “Prince of Pot” and a powerful voice in the debate over the decriminalization of marijuana, was sent to federal prison for five years on Friday for selling millions of cannabis seeds by mail and phone order, t…
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