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Why American teens are turning from cigarettes to marijuana
Why American teens are turning from cigarettes to marijuana A rising share of teens are smoking marijuana – a trend fueled largely by the growing perception among youths that pot use is not harmful, according to a national survey released Wednesday. Taken together with the decision by voters in Colorado…
Cory Booker: We must ‘radically change’ this drug war ‘insanity’
Newark New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (D) said Monday that he wants to be a leader in the drug reform movement no matter where he goes next in his public career, explaining that America must “radically change” the “insanity” of its generations-old drug war. Explaining to Huffington Post Live that…
Calif. marijuana activists learning from Colo. and Wash. state measures
Marijuana activists in California — many of whom thought that the Sunshine State would be first to legalize the drug — are looking to recently-passed ballot measures in Colorado and Washington state for inspiration, reported the San Jose Mercury News. Californians rejected a legalization measure in 2010, Prop 19, due…
Seattle courts dropping charges in pot possession cases
Prosecutors in King County, Washington are dropping charges against people arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana. According to Seattle’s Fox affiliate station KPCQ, the court is taking the measure as a means of saving money and resources for the legal system. In November, voters in Colorado and Washington…
Son of top DHS border cop busted for running cocaine
Four south Texas police officers, including the son of a top cop advising the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on border issues, were charged Thursday with accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to guard cartel cocaine shipments. One of the officers arrested, 29-year-old Alexis Rigoberto Espinoza, is the son of…
Senate Judiciary chair floats federal marijuana legalization
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested to U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske in a letter released Thursday (PDF) that Congress may consider legalizing marijuana in the wake of Colorado and Washington voting in favor of regulating the drug similarly to alcohol. But, Leahy wrote in…
Pharmaceutical dismisses journal claim that cannabis-based MS drug trials were flawed
There is no strong evidence for the efficacy of a cannabis-based drug used in Britain to treat muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, a medical journal said Wednesday. The drug’s developer dismissed the claims, which add to debate about the usefulness of the popular recreational drug and its extracts…
Smugglers use cannon to fire 85 pounds of marijuana into Arizona
Drug smugglers in Mexico used a cannon to fire containers full of marijuana over the border into Arizona, the U.S. Border Patrol said Tuesday. In what appears to be yet another innovation in the drug war arms race, authorities said they found 33 cans of marijuana weighing about 85 pounds,…
Colorado governor legalizes marijuana nearly a month ahead of time
Marijuana wasn’t supposed to be legalized in Colorado until January 5, but Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Monday that he signed an executive order formalizing the ballot initiative into law. “Voters were loud and clear on Election Day,” Hickenlooper said in a media advisory. “We will begin working immediately with…
Marijuana Policy Project: New polling ‘makes it clear’ Americans want feds to let states decide pot policy
The polling firm Gallup said Monday that for the first time ever, a super-majority of the American public wants the federal government to let individual states decide how to regulate marijuana, if they so choose. A whopping 64 percent told Gallup and USA Today that the federal government should not…
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