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Cities Can Ban Marijuana Dispensaries, CA Court Rules
An California appeals court decision saying localities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries is only adding to the industry's woes.
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MMJ leaf and stethoscope KY ODCP_6.jpgNORML Sues Feds in CA Medical Marijuana Fight [FEATURE]
The federal crackdown on medical marijuana in California is provoking legal challenges. First ASA, and now, NORML have filed lawsuits seeking to halt it. -
Mikki Norris and Chris Conrad at Thursday's rally and concert in Macarthur Park (courtesy HCLU)The 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference Meets in Los Angeles [FEATURE]
The Drug Policy Alliance's 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference was staggering in its breadth and depth. Here's our first report. -
Javier Sicilia addressing conference, with translator Ana Paula Hernandez (photo courtesy HCLU, drogriporter.hu/en)Mexico's Symbol of Drug War Resistance Says It's Our Fight, Too [FEATURE]
A panel at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference last week called on Americans to take action to help end the drug war in Mexico, even as Human Rights Watch releases as a damning report on government killings, tortures, and disappearances in the drug war. -
parthenon_53.gifThis Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past. -
Pot leaf_22.jpgTacoma Passes Lowest Priority Marijuana Initiative
Voters in Tacoma, Washington, approved a lowest law enforcement priority marijuana initiative Tuesday. -
Drug_bust_mexican_cartel_8.jpgMexico Drug War Update
The ugliness continues unabated in Mexico, and another blogger has joined the ranks of the murdered. -
Pot leaf_21.jpgKalamazoo Passes Marijuana Lowest Priority Initiative
Kalamazoo has become the first Michigan city to pass an initiative making small time marijuana use or possession by adults the lowest law enforcement priority. -
pile-of-cash_41.jpgThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Sleazy, sleazy. That's what a Missouri drug court monitor is accused of being, plus we have a crooked Puerto Rican cop and a sticky-fingered Louisiana narc. -
drug bust (wikimedia.org)US Drug Arrest Rate Dropping, But Still Sky High
The US drug arrest rate has been declining slightly for the last four years, but is still more than double the rate at the beginning of Reagan's war on drugs in 1980, an analysis of FBI crime data has found.