Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 9, 2008. Not only are there a number of state-level initiatives, there are also a handful of initiatives at the county or municipal level.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. September 16, 2008. Cannabis arrests now comprise nearly 47.5 percent of all drug arrests in the United States, 89% of them for mere possession.
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. September 11, 2008. Economists estimate tens of billions for governments if we taxed pot like tobacco and stopped wasting money on the drug war.
Rob Kampia, AlterNet. September 8, 2008. Twenty years ago a DEA chief judge concluded that doctors should be allowed to prescribe pot -- and the government is still ignoring his ruling.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. August 19, 2008. The alcohol poisoning death rate in the United States is shockingly high, consistently between 300 and 400 a year. It's zero for pot.
Anthony Papa, Huffington Post. August 8, 2008. Our federal government's zero-tolerance anti-drug crusade reached a new low in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Allen St. Pierre, NORML. August 1, 2008. Congress is for the first time in a generation (1978) taking a serious look at reforming components of cannabis prohibition laws.
Bruce Mirken, AlterNet. June 13, 2008. In what is becoming a nearly annual ritual, the ONDCP has released yet another report filled with dire warnings about rising marijuana potency.
Tony Newman, Huffington Post. May 28, 2008. For 40 years, we have been waging a "war on drugs." Families are kicked out of housing when many have done nothing wrong.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. April 2, 2008. They won't give up -- Alaska Supreme Court hears oral argument in state's bid to overturn legal marijuana at home.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. March 22, 2008. It's laughable that the Feds are pushing the concept of pot addiction when science shows that withdrawal symptoms from caffeine are far worse.
Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: Health and Wellness. March 6, 2008. So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer.
Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: PEEK. March 5, 2008. Ooh, a journalist is going to inject himself with pot -- to warn people of its "dramatic" effects.
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. February 21, 2008. Pot isn't illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp -- it's because of racism and the culture wars.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. February 14, 2008. The media pounced on his admitted love of weed and coke but did little to investigate the prescription drugs that did him in.
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