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White House Rebuffs Marijuana Legalization Petitions

Can you guess the drug czar's official response to those White House marijuana legalization petitions? We thought you could. But did the White House guess that marijuana legalization would be their most popular petition topic?
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Bay Area Pols Slam Feds' Medical Marijuana Crackdown

A pair of Bay area state legislators are blasting the federal government for its California medical marijuana crackdown and saying they could craft a legislative fix if the Justice Department cooperates.
What a difference a couple of years makes. (Image: Phil Smith)
What a difference a couple of years makes. (Image: Phil Smith)

Obama Met With San Francisco Medical Marijuana Protest [FEATURE]

The Obama administration's increasingly hostile approach to medical marijuana distribution in California brought out protestors by the hundreds as the president went to San Francisco for a fundraiser.

Obama Must Explain His Broken Promise on Medical Marijuana, and Soon

I have a new piece at Huffington Post demanding answers for Obama's badly botched approach to medical marijuana. The situation has spiraled into total insanity, and whatever anyone actually did or did not expect from this administration no longer matters. What we got is unacceptable, and if the president can't defend these policies, then he lacks the credibility to carry them out.

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DEA Hits More CA Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

The feds continue their war on medical marijuana distribution in California, with two new DEA raids Monday and the use of asset forfeiture threats to shut down eight dispensaries in Orange County.