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Law enforcement and drug treatment agencies are stepping up alerts for the newest drug to begin sweeping the country.
The drug is typically marketed as incense or potpourri and known by such names as “K2,” “Spice,” “Genie,…

Several Colo. cities put medical-marijuana question to votersDenver PostLOVELAND — While several Colorado cities and towns have already banned or restricted medical-marijuana businesses, others will ask voters in …Loveland dispensaries join forcesT…

Two items on my list of drug-policy reforms drew the most flak in comments: the abolition of the minimum legal drinking age and the non-commercial legalization of cannabis.
Note that the drinking-age idea was paired with a tenfold increase in alcohol …

Two police chiefs – former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara and Pleasant Hill Police Chief Pete Dunbar – faced off over legalizing marijuana in California in a Thursday webinar hosted by The Chronicle and SFGate.com.
About 60 individua…

Berkeley, Calif. — It’s 9 a.m. and as soon as the uniformed guard pulls open the black iron gate in front of the Berkeley Patients Group, a small line forms inside the city’s oldest and busiest marijuana dispensary.
Sara Romano l…

California — The California Chamber of Commerce and other groups representing employers are starting to line up to oppose the initiative to legalize marijuana, charging that Proposition 19 would allow pot smokers to light up on the job and ope…

Oregon — From above, the bushy green plants in backyard after backyard resemble English topiary gardens, neat and tidy. But a closer look at the gardens hidden from passersby behind tall fences tell a different story: cannabis crops mushroomin…

Kennebec JournalDispensaries 'starting to crack the closet door'Press HeraldShe finished her work on the book while at USM, but it draws on her longtime connection to the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz, Calif. …From…

Commissioners Vote 4-1 to Deny Use Permit
Tempers flared and an audience of nearly 75 was ordered to exit the building during a meeting of the Madera County Planning Commission Aug.  4 at the Coarsegold Community Center.
The question commissioners w…

In exactly one week an amazing annual event in the long struggle to reform cannabis laws come to the fore.

Below is an important message from the Seattle Hempfest. You can either donate via Hempfest.org, or participate in their new ‘Fundraising Crew’.
There is no hyperbole when one states that the [...]