The Obama administration released its 2012 National Drug Control Strategy and accompanying 2013 drug budget Tuesday, and while the administration touted it as a "drug policy for the 21st Century," it is …
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Lawmakers In 5 States Tell Feds To Back Off
April 2, 2012 | 6 views | No Comments
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 [...]
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Federal Agents with DEA, IRS, Raid Marijuana Trade School Oaksterdam University
April 2, 2012 | 8 views | No Comments
OAKLAND – Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland’s Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state’s first cannabis industry training school. Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigation division are searching the university at the corner of 16th Street and Broadway, in the heart of the city’s widely recognized downtown cannabis-oriented district, authorities said. The university has been cordoned off by yellow caution tape. Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, said she could not say why the agents were there other than to [...]
Federal Court Blocks DEA Effort to Close Florida Pharmacies
March 15, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments
In its effort to prevent the diversion of prescription pain medications into the illicit market, the DEA moved last month to bar two Florida CVS drug stores from selling the drugs. But on Wednesday, the US Court o…
Cato Unbound: Ending Cannabis Prohibition in America
February 21, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments
Originally published @ Cato Unbound, as part of a series of essays on ending the government’s failed war against cannabis Ending Cannabis Prohibition in America The now forty-year-old organized effort to reform cannabis laws in America is on the precipice of major socio-political reforms with approximately fifty percent of the population no longer supporting the nation’s seventy four-year-old Cannabis Prohibition. While reformers have made tremendous gains, notably at the state level, which have placed them at this crossroads, obstacles to full cannabis legalization are abundant and deep-seated in Congress and [...]
Obama’s War on Pot
February 18, 2012 | 3 views | No Comments
Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. “I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue,” he vowed, promising an end to the Bush administration’s high-profile raids on [...]
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