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In an interview with the New Yorker released on Sunday, President Obama made perhaps the strongest endorsement by any sitting president on relaxed marijuana laws. Pushed by interviewer David [...]

WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of […]

Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs say the federal government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington’s laws legalizing recreational [...]

Federal agents continue to prosecute citizens involved in the medical marijuana industry in states that have approved legislation legalizing MMJ. This article tells the story of Matthew R. [...]

Asked if the feds should arrest people who use marijuana in the states that have legalized it, 72 percent of respondents said no. More strikingly, by a margin of 2 […]

Contrary to an unsourced report published before the election, President Obama won’t be “tackling” the drug war in his second term.  Read this entire Reason.com article. [...]

“I think we have spent tens of billions, hundreds of billions of dollars on the so-called War on Drugs. Well, we’ve lost.” – Sen. Leahy Read this entire NORML article. [message [...]

Responding to the previously posted RollingStone article, Mike Riggs identifies 3 officials who should have made the list. Read this entire Reason.com article. [message type=”custom” [...]

The marijuana legalization initiatives that triumphed in Washington and Colorado this past fall faced surprisingly little organized opposition… So what happens now? The biggest immediate [...]

Following the passage on Election Day of citizens’ initiatives in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana use for adults, United States Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske has for the first [...]