All Entries in the "The War On Drugs" Category
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Close In Garden Grove, California
The city of Garden Grove is taking full advantage of the California Supreme Court’s recent ruling to permit cities and counties to downright ban medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in their municipalities by ordering more than 60 businesses to close up shop or face serious consequences. Garden Grove city officials previously had letters hand-delivered [...]
Washington State Medical Marijuana Dispensary Owner Speaks Out About Latest Closures
We recently reported that letters from the Drug Enforcement Administration were sent out to eleven Seattle, Washington area medical marijuana dispensaries informing them to cease operations and close their businesses. Now, Douglas Gerdes, owner of The Only Natural in Ballard, Washington which is one of the dispensaries being forced to close, is speaking out about [...]
Proposal To Permit Marijuana Dispensaries In San Diego Is In Mayor’s Hands
We recently reported that the California Supreme Court ruled municipal governments are permitted to completely ban medical marijuana dispensaries, whether they are in compliance with state laws or not. Now, the San Diego City Attorney’s office has finished drafting a law that would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in their municipality and has passed the final [...]
Cops Kill Fleeing Drug Suspect; Claim They Feared For Their Safety
Police in Antioch, California were recently doing surveillance on a drug suspect’s house. The suspect, Charles Burns, 21, left his house, and got into a vehicle. At that point, police attempted to make “contact” with the suspect; a chase ensued. Another man was driving the vehicle Burns was in and that man proceeded to crash the [...]
Vermont Legislators Vote In Favor Of Decriminalizing Marijuana Possession
A bill to decriminalize marijuana in Vermont has successfully traversed the legislative gauntlet of scrutiny of both the state’s House of Representatives and Senate chambers which will make it the seventeenth state in America to have reduced its pot possession penalties. The law in question would decriminalize the possession of up to an ounce of [...]
Hemp Supporter James Comer Makes Beneficial Trip To Washington, D.C.
On the heels of Kentucky’s successful hemp cultivation bill, former state treasurer Jonathan Miller, Agriculture Commissioner James Comer and State Senator Paul Hornback made what they are considering to be “a very successful trip” to Washington, D.C. in order to continue their efforts to bring re-legalized hemp farming back to American soil. “We had some [...]
Is The Obama Administration Really Interested In Drug Policy Reform?
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske is a big fan of saying his office (The Office of National Drug Control Policy) is focusing more on treatment in the War on Drugs, and less on incarceration. For our regular readers this is old news. But this is a new year, and the issue needs to be revisited. For [...]
ATF Declares Second Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Medical Marijuana Patients
The federal agents with the ATF have reportedly informed gun dealers that it is against the law to sell firearms to individuals that are licensed with their state of residency to legally possess and consume medical marijuana. Steve Fox, director of governmental relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, discusses the injustice that the ATF is [...]
A 2011 Letter From Head Of Fraternal Order Of Police Says Prohibition Endangers Public Safety
A 2011 letter from Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury to FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg arguing against a ban on menthol cigarettes has been unearthed by the advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. LEAP sent out a press release today detailing the letter and what it means in terms of the broader battle against drug [...]
Marijuana Prohibition Just Doesn’t Work
Marijuana prohibition has proven to be a cataclysmic policy for our country and all those countries throughout the globe that choose to employ similar techniques in an attempt to purge our planet of pot patrons. Some states are choosing to evolve beyond the antiquated federal drug laws that were set in place by backwards thinking [...]
Medical Marijuana Advocates Protest U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Speech In CA
During a recent commencement speech by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to UC Berkeley law school graduates, medical marijuana advocates descended outside the theater where Holder was speaking to protest the Department of Justice’s treatment of medical cannabis patients. Activists on the street handed out fake DOJ recruitment flyers, detailing how the Obama Administration is engaging in [...]
The United State Of Weed 5/12/13
Happy Mother’s Day! The United State Of Weed is a weekly series where we recap all of the cannabis-related political developments happening in The United States at the state level. If you know of any new political developments in your state in regards to marijuana law reform – whether it be medicinal or otherwise – let us [...]
Videos Of The Week 5/5/13 – 5/11/13
Another big week in the world of marijuana law reform brought to you by he 420 Times. Here is your weekly collection of cannabis-related videos to make you think, laugh or even take action. If you know of a video we should see, let us know at joe@the420times.com. - Joe Klare – make sure you check [...]
More History Made In Colorado
Last fall the states of Colorado and Washington made monumental history when voters passed recreational marijuana legalization laws in both states. Now more history is being made in Colorado as lawmakers there work toward implementing the will of the voters. The Marijuana Policy Project brings us the details in an email alert from yesterday, which [...]
Denver Lawmakers Pass Measure to Regulate Recreational Marijuana
Lawmakers in Denver, Colorado have officially passed the regulation of recreational marijuana for adults 21 and over in their republic. But of course, not everyone is in favor of the new recreational marijuana laws and the opposition in this particular news video clip seems to be most concerned about the children that reside in the [...]
