It's the feel-good story of the day. About 750 marijuana plants were stolen from a Farmington, Maine law enforcement storage building overnight last week. The storage facility is only half a mile from the police station.
Atty. for Freedom Marc Victor discusses the Baseline Killer case and government duties at the Arizona Breakfast Club (video). Some of the greatest Q&A I have heard. (My Man Marc... "Bring It!" - Immigration, Drug War, Justice, FIJA, Religion)
The DEA: "Hundreds of thousands of dollars from Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada," "Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.
"If [Prop 19] passed, Californians 21 and older would be the first Americans with the legal right to use marijuana recreationally. " [note to 73-year-olds: you are not Americans. Get out before CBS calls ICE on your un-American asses.]
A panel of marijuana criminal defense attorneys on the opening day of NORML's 39th Annual National Conference were unanimous and emphatic on one thing people with pot should do when confronted by police: exercise their right to remain silent.
Hilary Clinton has sparked a diplomatic row with Mexico by likening the country's drugs war to a Colombia-style "insurgency", a charge angrily rejected by Mexican politicians.
The US secretary of state pointed to the use of car bombs, a tool on
The Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana, say prominent American and Mexican policy makers.
A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war.
The debate is only likely to grow more animated if Californians approv
A longtime advocate of doctors on behalf of patients in chronic pain has become the target of an ugly grand jury investigation after she spoke out to defend a physician charged with over-medicating patients to their deaths.
The Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana, say prominent American and Mexican policy makers.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia says that “on all matters that are humane and universal, I don’t have any disagreement over sovereignty and patriotism. That is, if the Americans would like to put training troops here, as they have helicopters and sate
The Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana, say prominent American and Mexican policy makers.
As an emergency room doctor tried to figure out what was wrong, the man’s friends showed a package of herbs clearly marked “not for human consumption.”
The man and his friends had smoked it.
The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers.
The driver was wearing a deputy's uniform and swore he was a real law officer. But to the Border Patrol agents manning a checkpoint here, something just looked funny about the pickup truck with Webb County sheriff decals.
The Palo Alto, Calif., attorney maintains law enforcement has become so heavy-handed at the eclectic art and music gathering that he was compelled to form a legal defense team known as Lawyers for Burners to help participants...
Ector County prosecutors will not prosecute former narcotics agent turned marijuana activist Barry N. Cooper and two others on charges filed this summer by the Texas Rangers in connection with the December 2008 Kopbusters hoax.
Barry Cooper, a former Texas police officer who turned against the drug war and executed a reverse-sting operation against the Odessa police department, will walk free on all related charges, an attorney for Ector County announced.
30+ Shire activists converged on the busy State Liquor Store at 4:20 on 8/20 to regress their grievances against the State of New Hampshire. As the following video shows, the activists called the State out on it’s hypocrisy for locking up peaceful pe
WASHINGTON - The Libertarian Party (LP) is protesting the decision by Facebook to refuse advertisements that advocate for the legalization of marijuana.
At this very moment on America’s west coast, there’s a war on. The lines have been drawn in the battle over California’s Proposition 19, which would permit adults over 21-years-old to possess and cultivate marijuana for recreational use.
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations. A maximum of 9 Ebonics experts will work with the DEA
The killers came for Mayor Cavazos in the early hours of Aug. 16 when 7 SUV's rolled up and men in police uniforms descended on his palatial home. Servants stood back terrified, as their boss was forced away at gunpoint. His corpse was dumped on a ne
Tales from the Southern Border, a round-up of under-reported stories happening on the U.S.-Mexican border and those who cross it illegally. How many of these stories are readers already familiar with?
Nice work if you can get it. A TX DA uses drug seizures as his own private slush fund. In addition, Three Former Brooks County DA secretaries paid over $1 million in salaries in three year period.
Mexico (Reuters) - Security forces found the body of a slain mayor on Wednesday near Mexico's richest city, days after he was abducted by hitmen in the latest attack on a public official by increasingly bold drug cartels........
An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war.
Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has beco
Ten years ago this summer, Portugal became the first country in Europe to decriminalize all illegal drugs. While stiff fines and prison sentences still await drug traffickers and dealers, most users are no longer considered crooks.
The drug war in Mexico is at a crossroads. As the death toll climbs above 28,000, President Felipe Calderon confronts growing pressure to try a different strategy — perhaps radically different — to quell the violence unleashed by major drug syndicate
In advance of a vote to legalize (and tax the heck out of) marijuana this fall, the Sacramento Bee traces the smoking habits of people across California. The results? People smoke. A lot.
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