The Obama administration is currently preparing to make a landmark decision on marijuana laws, determining whether or not cannabis has medical benefits. The decision in favor of the drug would put marijuana out of the USA’s list of most dangerous drugs, the Charlotte Observer reports. President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 […]
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NIDA Admits That Marijuana Has Medicinal Value
The United States government has surprisingly allowed one of its most prominent drug warriors – the head of NIDA – to admit that, despite more than 40yearsof pot propaganda, marijuana does actually possess medicinal qualities. Read article here: High Times
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: Marijuana Has Medical Value and Marijuana Possession Arrests are Waste of Law Enforcement Time and Resources
Statement from Drug Policy Alliance: More Senators Should Follow Reid’s Lead In an interview today with the Las Vegas Sun, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Nevada cities should move in the direction of making medical marijuana legal. “If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to […]
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, […]