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CANNABIS CULTURE – The nineteenth year of Seattle’s annual Hempfest was a smokey celebration of unprecedented progress in the cannabis community and a massive display of Drug War dissidence. Cannabis Culture took a trip to Seattle to burn with the grea…

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US government. Sinc…

Washington, D.C. — Between 1971, when Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs, and 2008, the latest year for which official figures are available, American law enforcement officials made more than 40 million drug arrests. That number roughly …

by Jason Beaubien, NPR
 
More than 3 1/2 years after Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his war against the drug cartels, violence in Mexico continues to escalate, and 2010 is on track to be the deadliest year yet in a campaign that has al…

If mar­i­jua­na were le­gal­ized in Cal­i­for­nia, prices could drop dra­mat­i­cal­ly, con­sump­tion would in­crease (al­though how much is any­one’s guess), and tax rev­enues could ei­ther wild­ly ex­ceed pub­lished es­ti­mates or come in much low­er, ac­cord­ing to which sets of as­sump­tions hold true, the RAND Drug Pol­i­cy Re­search Cen­ter said in a re­cent report.

In Mexico this week, authorities in the northern state of Nuevo Leon announced that soldiers and police are being deployed to patrol around public schools. In addition 5,000 teachers are going to be trained in how to react if a gun battle occurs near their classrooms. Listen to the Story on NPR read more Tweet [...]

On Friday the government’s war on marijuana consumers claimed yet another victim. In Las Vegas, Nevada, metro police shot and killed a 21-year-old father-to-be while serving a search warrant for marijuana. Phil Smith at StoptheDrugWar.org has detailed coverage here. A 21-year-old father-to-be was killed last Friday night by a Las Vegas Police Department narcotics officer [...]