All Entries in the "The War On Drugs" Category
Mexico City Considers Progressive Marijuana Legalization Legislation
Legislators in Mexico City are planning on introducing legislation in September of this year that would legalize the cultivation, possession and consumption of marijuana for adults in their republic. The legislation in question would permit adults to legally cultivate marijuana in the privacy of their homes, allow them to consume the substance in designated pot [...]
Marijuana Advocate Rolling His Wheelchair To White House In Protest Of Prohibition
Curtis Kyle has cerebral palsy and has unfortunately had to rely on a wheelchair in order to be itinerant for his entire life. Now, Curtis is putting a little more reliance on his wheelchair as he labors to physically roll his way to Washington, D.C. as a form of protest regarding the federal government’s current [...]
Research Scientists Call For Marijuana Law Reform
A small group of research scientists are claiming that keeping certain psychoactive substances such as marijuana, psilocybin and the like categorized as illegal amounts to scientific censorship and is hampering research into potentially important medicinal uses of said outlawed elements. David Nutt, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London, along with his colleagues David [...]
Marijuana Comes To Wall Street: Entrepreneurs Pitch Investors In New York City
Although marijuana has only been legalized for recreational dedications in the states of Colorado and Washington, it hasn’t stopped the ArcView Investor Network, led by co-founder Steve DeAngelo, from holding six conferences throughout the United States over the past two years where marijuana entrepreneurs have pitched start-up concepts to large groups of potential investors. The [...]
UFC Raises Permitted THC Levels For Athletes
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization has agreed to raise the acceptable limits of THC metabolites that fighters are allowed to have in their bloodstream during competition. The UFC made their decision after the news was released that the World Anti-Doping Agency had taken the necessary measures to raise their THC metabolite acceptance levels for [...]
Maine Marijuana Advocates Submit Necessary Signatures For Legal Possession Referendum
Advocates to legalize the possession of marijuana for adults in the municipality of Portland, Maine have successfully gathered double the amount of signatures that are necessary to have their referendum qualify for the ballot in November. The required petitioned signatures have been officially delivered and if their efforts are efficacious, marijuana would be legal to [...]
Why Can’t Hemp Get You High?
The domestic and industrial use of the hemp plant dates back as far as 8000 BCE when hemp cord was used to create pottery. Even today more than 30 countries throughout the world cultivate the plant in order to process its beneficial fiber and seeds. But can the same stuff that’s used to make everything [...]
Washington Medical Marijuana Provider Calling For Product Labeling Regulations
Is the supply of medical marijuana that you are purchasing from your local dispensary safe for consumption? Should state’s that have legalized marijuana for medicinal and recreational dedications have a stricter policy in place for labeling of the product that’s being sold to consumers? When individuals purchase over the counter medications from retailing outlets the [...]
Can Marijuana Make You A Better Parent?
Mark Wolfe is a registered California medical marijuana patient that uses the substance for chronic pain issues. He claims it makes him more attentive to his children as opposed to his previous use of alcohol. Mark had written an article for a prominent publication that has stirred up a bit of controversy due to what [...]
Cop’s Incessant Flatulence Leads To Illegal Marijuana Grow Operation
A great quantity of marijuana was unfortunately discovered growing inside a residence in Leicester, England, thanks to the incessant farting of a police officer who had recently started a high-protein diet. Three officers were patrolling in the area in which the bust took place when one of them proceeded to load up the vehicle with [...]
Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission Has Chosen New Chairman
Brian Furnish, a farmer from Harrison County, Kentucky, has been chosen as the new chairman of the state’s industrial hemp commission. Furnish reportedly claimed that Kentucky is at the forefront of efforts to revive the crop. State Agriculture Commissioner James Comer stepped down from the position as commission chairman in accordance with legislation that passed the [...]
Riverside, California Bans Medical Marijuana Delivery Services
The Riverside City Council has decided to ban all medical marijuana clinics from delivering supplies directly to patients doorsteps. Statistics showing increased crime rates that accompany the retailing of medical marijuana is reportedly the reasoning Riverside’s city council members are giving for voting in favor of the delivery service ban. The newly passed delivery service [...]
Florida Deputy Charged With Growing Marijuana
“Someone call the cops, I think my neighbor’s growing weed! Oh wait, my neighbor is a cop, oops!” Yup, even the long arm of the law can’t resist the allure of the sweet leaf. After receiving reports at the Lee County Sheriff’s office that Deputy Piotr Urbanski and his girlfriend Shannon Clancey were illegally cultivating [...]
Federal Judge Rules Against Marijuana Magazine Restrictions In Colorado
United States District Judge Richard Matsch has officially ruled against the provision in Colorado’s law that would have forced magazines dedicated to marijuana to be handled in retail outlets similar to pornography. “The defendants have conceded the invalidity of the code provision cited in the complaints,” Judge Matsch avowed in his directive granting a permanent [...]
Federal Prosecution’s Crackdown Continues In California
Several medical marijuana dispensaries in the Los Angeles and Long Beach areas have recently received letters from federal prosecutors warning the businesses to either close up shop or face serious consequences. The authorities are claiming that more than 100 dispensaries across Los Angeles County have received the letters as of Tuesday, June 11, telling them [...]
