A federal judge in Sacramento this week dismissed a federal lawsuit filed in November by members of the NORML Legal Committee against the US Department of Justice, US Attorney General Eric Holder, and DEA Director Michele Leonhart. The lawsuit (read it here), one of four filed simultaneously in the state’s four federal districts, argues that the Justice Department’s ongoing crackdown against medical marijuana providers and distributors in California is in violation of the Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution because the use of cannabis therapeutically is a [...]
Government’s Crackdown On Medical Cannabis Not Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
Costa Rica Joins Call for Drug Legalization Debate
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla has added her voice to the rising clamor for discussions on drug legalization as an alternative to the current state of affairs, in which Central American nations see themsel…
Russia’s Retrograde Stand on Drug Abuse
Bertrand Audoin and Chris Beyrer
It is common knowledge that illicit drug use in the Russian Federation has reached critical proportions. It is also common knowledge that people who use drugs are among those most at-risk of infection with H.I.V. An…
This Week in Weed: Feb. 26th – March 3rd
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The Department of Homeland Security Is Searching Your Facebook And Twitter for These Words
The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC.
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