Medical Marijuana News

May 24, 2017

President Trump Compliments Leader Who Executes His Citizens for Drug Charges

If the latest comments and memos coming out of Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice didn’t raise concerns about the Trump Administration’s potential plans to reignite our nation’s failed war on drugs, his recent call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should sound alarm bells. A reminder: President Duterte has extrajudicially executed […]
May 23, 2017

Everything You Need to Know About New Jersey’s Pot Laws

For seven years, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has gone out of his way to keep marijuana out of the hands of his constituents. The newly appointed “opiate czar” continually blocked expansion of his state’s medical marijuana program, going as far as recently calling cannabis reform a democratic plot to […]
May 23, 2017

Man Gets 24 Years for Smuggling 880 Pounds of Pot

Photo by Justin Cannabis.  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A New York man convicted of smuggling about 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of marijuana on commercial flights from San Francisco to North Carolina has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison. The Charlotte Observer reports that 38-year-old Lavon Williams was sentenced […]
May 23, 2017

Jeff Sessions Could Use Chemical Analysis to Crackdown on Legal Weed

With recent advances in science and technology, it is now possible for the U.S. Department of Justice to use chemical analysis to determine which legal marijuana states are supplying the black market. In a study published in a November 2009 issue of the Journal of Forensic Science, researchers from Texas […]
May 23, 2017

Feds Admit Marijuana May Treat Opiate Crisis

For now, the United States is still (mostly) a free country, and people are (within limits) allowed to speak their minds. For example: Vice President Mike Pence is free to believe that evolution may not be a real thing and the world was in fact created by God in a […]
May 23, 2017

Has the Drug War Made Mexico the Second Most Dangerous Country on Earth?

Protests have been held in Mexico over the slaying of an award-winning journalist on May 15—the latest in a long line of reporters killed for daring to cover the country’s ongoing nightmarish narco-violence.  Javier Valdez was the founder and editor of the weekly newspaper Ríodoce in Culiacán, capital of the Sinaloa state and principal stronghold of the notorious […]
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