While our federal government and most state governments continue to fight the use of cannabis for medical and recreational uses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that overdoses on drugs not called cannabis accounted for 38,329 deaths in 2010,… High Times
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The Acid Bard: Best – Selling Author Irvine Welsh on the Drug Experience
Irvine Welsh is an author, a screenwriter, a playwright — a genuine composer of the written word. Born in 1958 in Leith, the gritty port district of Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh, which would go on to influence much of his writing, welsh migrated to London i… High Times
Justice Dept Shifts Policy for Drug Sentencing
In an effort to ease prison overcrowding, the Obama Administration will implement a major shift in policy, one that sidesteps federal mandatory minimum sentencing for low-level drug offenses. In a speech Monday at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, A… High Times
Should US Eliminate Drug Czar?
On August 1 President Obama announcedthat, after four years, GilKerlikowskewas out as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – also known as US drug czar.Kerlikowskewill likely move to the Department of Homeland … High Times
Justice Dept Seeks To Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., […]
Drug Free America Helps Kill Pro-Pot Ad at Brickyard 400
Last week marijuana advocates were excited to hear that a pro-marijuana advertisement would air on ajumbotronjust outside of NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis over the weekend. The ad was to run 72 over a three-day period for the hundreds of thousan… High Times
Take Marijuana Out of Drug War
Americans like wars: the war on poverty — we lost that one when a bigger war came along. In 1971, while losing the war in Vietnam, President Nixon declared a war on drugs. The two wars got mixed together in some unpleasant ways. American soldiers began using drugs in Vietnam as a way of deadening […]
Advocates Appeal Marijuana’s Federal Status as a Dangerous Drug with No Medical Value to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, DC — Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition for writ of certiorarion Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a January Circuit Court decision that maintained marijuana’s current federal status as one of the most dangerous drugs with no medical value. In the widely watched case ASA v. Drug Enforcement Administration, […]
Ethan Nadelmann: The Real Drug Czar
The Rolling StonesBy Tim Dickonson The driving force for the legalization of marijuana in America – a frenetic, whip-smart son of a rabbi who can barely tell indica from sativa – has just entered enemy territory. Ethan Nadelmann, the executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, is here in California’s crucible of conservatism, Orange County, […]
American Drug War 2
Screenings of American Drug War 2 are available in New York City and across the U.S. beginning June 6th. High Times