Articles about cannabis legal issues: Legalization, Decriminalization, status and developments around the world.
"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." -- Abraham Lincoln December, 1840
 Compiled by Clint Some numbers regarding the USA's useless war on weed: Federal policies, arrests, punishments and...
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 Deborah Baker, Associated Press, 3/15/07 New Mexico's Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, poised to sign a bill making New Mexico the 12th s...
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ACLU, 5/27/07 Judge Submits Official Recommendation to DEA Urging End to 40-Year Barrier to FDA-Approved Medical M...
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By Michael R. Paley, jewishpress.com The criminalizing of drugs was, especially in the United States, very much the product of a religiou...
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 As the drug is downgraded, police crack down on internet vendors offering supplies by post A Guardian investigation has established that at least five large-scale online cannabis vendors are ...
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Stephanie Armour, USA Today, 4/17/07 On a typical weekday, stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld has a marijuana cigarette before work, then goes t...
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Amanda Pehrson, Campus Press, 4/23/07 There is much disapproval toward any positive stance on marijuana, especially its non-medical legal ...
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 Criminal justice professionals speaking out against the "War on Drugs" A non-profit educational organization comprised of current and former members of the law enforcement...
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 12 States and their Medical Marijuana laws Since 1996, 12 states have enacted laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana, even though fe...
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Marijuana Policy Project, 4/9/07 State medical marijuana laws do not increase teen use of marijuana, a new analysis of government dat...
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 Deborah Baker, Associated Press, 4/2/07 Nearly three decades after medical marijuana first was approved in New Mexico, Gov. Bill Richardson ...
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3/18/07 USA: Federal court denies fundamental right to use cannabis for medical purposes
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David Abel, Boston Globe, 2/12/07 An administrative law judge recommended Monday that a professor at the University of Massachusetts a...
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Drug War Chronicle, 12/22/06 A study released Monday finds that marijuana is now the nation's biggest cash crop, with the val...
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Seattlepi.com, 11/27/06 The Washington Supreme Court, for hardly the first time in judicial history, has rendered a ruling t...
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The Michigan Daily, 12/4/06 The fight to reverse Michigan's ban on medicinal marijuana is understandable given that the drug...
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