Hassan Arif, Telegraph-Journal
Sep 29 2011
Last week, I wrote a column on how the right-wing Tea Party movement in the United States is hijacking the Republican Party, moving it further to the right into a terrain where ideology takes precedence over fact, thus the title of my column, "When...
Nigel Duara, Bloomberg Businessweek
Sep 29 2011
Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.
Casey Glynn, CBS News
Sep 23 2011
California authorities say they tracked a package containing 2.5 pounds of marijuana to the home of a Cincinnati Bengals player in suburban northern Kentucky.
Paul Armentano, NORML
Sep 19 2011
Pot arrests now more than half of total drug arrests nationwide.
Phillip Smith, Stop the Drug War
Sep 15 2011
Prospects are gloomy for passing drug reform bills and blocking prohibitionist bills in D.C.
Jackie Frank, Reuters
Sep 8 2011
Medical marijuana may be fueling increased use of pot while meth use has fallen by half since 2006.
Vancouver Island RCMP say they’ve noticed a big drop in the number of outdoor marijuana sites spotted from the air this year, and the crops on those sites contain fewer, smaller plants.
Steve Fox, AlterNet
Sep 6 2011
For decades, the United States has been embroiled in a debate over whether marijuana should be legalized.
Phillip Smith, Stop the Drug War
Sep 6 2011
Judges can now opt for suspended sentences without creating a criminal record.
Associated Press
Sep 1 2011
Veteran NFL running back Laurence Maroney has been acquitted of a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge, a move his attorney says frees him up to try and join a new team.
