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Drug decriminalization pays off in Portugal as US weighs its options
Associated Press These days, Casal Ventoso is an ordinary blue-collar community — mothers push baby strollers, men smoke outside cafes, buses chug up and down…
Shock: Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson favors marijuana legalization
Robertson a welcome addition to drug reform circles, former narc tells Raw Story Wikimedia Commons Image Stephen C. Webster Raw Story Count this among the…
Legalise drugs, says former UK defence secretary
Bob Ainsworth describes war on drugs as ‘nothing short of a disaster’ and calls on government to look at other options Helene Mulholland Guardian A…
Marijuana-legalization push gets voice on Capitol Hill
Wikimedia Commons Image Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The cannabis industry has flexed its muscles in 15 states where it’s legal to smoke marijuana…
The Flower: Time to End Marijuana Prohibition (VIDEO)
Youtube: blackmustachecom The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is…
ACLU Sues Over Threats to Medical Marijuana
Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben Yahoo News The manufacture and sale of medical marijuana has been legal in California since the 1990s and in Michigan as the…
Harvard: Marijuana Cuts Tumor Growth by 50%
Prevent Disease The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to…
Pot growers portrayed as terror threat
Jeff Stein Washington Post What were they smoking? Federal, state and local officials carrying out a counter-terrorism drill in Northern California Wednesday played out a…
Arizona Medical Marijuana Legalization Pulls Ahead In Tight Vote Count
Wikimedia Commons Image Bob Christie Associated Press PHOENIX — A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona pulled ahead for the first time Friday,…
State and federal marijuana laws collide
Oren Dorell USA TODAY People who use marijuana for medicinal purposes in states where it is legal are being penalized by the federal government because…
Did Eric Holder Kill California’s Pot Initiative?
Chris Good The Atlantic California voters have sided against legalizing marijuana for recreational use statewide. Should Eric Holder get the credit? That’s what one California…
Marijuana legalization measure loses in California
Lisa Leff Associated Press LOS ANGELES – California voters declined to make their trendsetting state the nation’s first to legalize marijuana use and sales, heeding…
Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin or crack’
Sacked government drugs adviser David Nutt publishes investigation in Lancet reopening debate on classification Action Press/ Rex Features image Sarah Boseley Guardian Alcohol is the…