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| 'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed' | Latin American leaders are increasingly speaking out against prohibition. And public opinion in America, especially when it comes to legalizing pot, i... |
| 4 Hopeful Signs in the Fight Against Disastrous Drug War, Including a New Bill to End Federal Pot Prohibition | It's been forty years since President Nixon declared a "war on drugs." And we're not winning. In local communities, Black and Lati... |
| A miscarriage of justice on marijuana | As if America's highly-publicised "war on drugs" were not already facing a credibility gap, two US superior court judges – one in Washi... |
| Addicted to Courts | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimin... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dis... |
| America’s prisons: A catching sickness | Harsh laws for selling or possessing of drugs are a public-policy disaster. Ernest Drucker, an epidemiologist, uses the tools of his trade to examin... |
| Assessing US Drug Policy in the Americas | The growing realization that we and our neighbors in the Americas are not well-served by the status quo U.S. policies presents the opportunity to re-e... |
| Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close | Colorado's top federal prosecutor has ordered 25 medical marijuana shops located near schools to close in an escalating pot clampdown, as the sta... |
| Backlash to Crackdown Grows | Marijuana activists in California are gearing up this week for a flurry of statewide protests during President Obama's October 25 visit to the Ba... |
| Barney Frank and Ron Paul Introduce Bill to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition | The bill introduced today would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws -- not just medical marijuana laws -- without federal interfere... |
| Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign | President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales s... |
| Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing | Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objecti... |
| Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive | Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca is on a European tour in a bid to drum up support for taking coca off a UN treaty on banned drugs. Spanish foreig... |
| Calif. to vote on legalizing marijuana | For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just weeks away. Voters in Cali... |
| California court rules cities, counties can ban pot stores | In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities ... |
| California Medical Assn. support of marijuana legalization has doctors talking | The California Medical Assn.'s recent decision to support marijuana legalization has drawn mixed opinions from physicians and others. At the sa... |
| California medical marijuana growers face pressure | A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if... |
| California pot industry's next move: Ballot initiative for state regulation | A proposed ballot initiative aimed for the November elections begs a key question looming over California's medical marijuana industry: Can str... |
| California Pot Legalization Wouldn't Trump Federal Law | Even if Californians vote next month to legalize marijuana, possession of the drug will still be a criminal offense under federal law, which trumps ... |
| California's "Princeton of Pot" reopens in bare-bones state | A California school known as the "Princeton of Pot" has reopened after a federal raid, but with a bare-bones staff of volunteers to teach t... |
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