All Entries in the "Drug War" Category
4/20 Surprise: Proposed Colorado Marijuana Rules Will Make It Easier to Get a Mile-High High
Bill vaporizes ‘vertical integration,’ one-year monopoly proposals By STEVEN NELSON, April 19, 2013, US News Colorado legislators announced legislation for regulating legal marijuana businesses Friday as ecstatic potheads flocked to Denver to light up in public Saturday in celebration of the first “4/20″ since Coloradans voted to legalize the drug in November. The proposed legislation would allow out-of-state residents [...]
US Supreme Court Limits Front Door Drug Dog Sniffs
by Phillip Smith, Information Liberation, March 26, 2013 The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a drug dog’s sniff of a residence’s front door is search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and that police must therefore obtain a search warrant before unleashing the hounds. The case was Florida v. Jardines. While the high court has [...]
The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit and a great rebuttal!
by Gil Kerlikowske, macleans.ca , February 11, 2013 Gil Kerlikowske is U.S. President Obama’s director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy—more commonly known as the U.S. “drug czar.” His long career in law enforcement included serving as police chief in two border cities: Buffalo and Seattle. Q: In the November elections, two states—Washington and Colorado—voted to [...]
A Look Ahead: 12 States That Could Legalize Medical Marijuana in 2013
from The Medical Marijuana Business Daily, January 15, 2013 Last year was a significant one for the marijuana industry, with two states passing MMJ laws and another two legalizing cannabis for recreational use. It will be hard to top that, but the industry could be poised for another big year in 2013. As Medical Marijuana Business Daily [...]
The Next Seven States To Legalize Pot
By Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone December 18, 2012 9:00 AM ET The Berlin Wall of pot prohibition seems to be crumbling before our eyes. By fully legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As many as 58 percent of Americans now believe marijuana should be legal. And our political [...]
Obama: ‘Bigger fish to fry’ than go after pot smokers
Amanda Sakuma, @iamsakuma, MSNBC 11:59 am on 12/14/2012 Good news for marijuana users in Colorado and Washington: President Obama says the feds are not likely to bust you for breaking out your bong. “We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters. Some White House and Justice Department officials have indicated the [...]
Welcome to the Amsterdam of the Rockies
A ski town weighs opening its doors to marijuana tourists. —By Josh Harkinson| Mon Nov. 12, 2012 3:08 AM PST
We just legalized pot. Now what?
Colorado.com, Nov 7, 2012 From the federal legal implications of marijuana possession to do-it-yourself home-grow operations, Amendment 64 discussions are cropping up all over Colorado. We just legalized pot. Now what? From the federal legal implications of marijuana possession to do-it-yourself home-grow operations, Amendment 64 discussions are cropping up all over Colorado. Marijuana legalized in [...]
States Legalizing Marijuana Will Violate Federal Law, Trigger Constitutional Showdown: DEA, Drug Czars
The Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner Posted: 10/15/2012 3:13 pm Updated: 10/15/2012 10:04 pm On a Monday teleconference call, former Drug Enforcement Agency administrators and directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy voiced a strong reminder to the U.S. Department of Justice that even if voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington pass ballot measures to legalize marijuana use [...]
Colorado pot vote mirrors party lines that re-elected Obama
By KEVIN VAUGHAN and BURT HUBBARD I-News Network, Nov. 7, 2012 President Barack Obama’s county-by-county victories in Colorado virtually mirrored the vote to legalize marijuana use in the state – in all but eight mostly rural counties, pot passed in places that supported the president’s re-election bid and failed in places that supported Republican challenger [...]
Colorado and Washington vote to become first US states to legalize marijuana
Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use, and possibly in Oregon as well. While the decision in Colorado is historic, it was not without controversy: The measure won by a close six-point margin, 53% in favor to 47% opposed. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper was an ardent opponent to the legalizaiton of [...]
Colorado and Washington prepare to face off with feds over marijuana
08 November, 2012, RT Colorado and Washington became the first states in the US to legalize the recreational use of marijuana this week, but the win for weed advocates is likely to be challenged by the feds as nation-wide legislation outlawing the drug still stands. Voters in both states elected to pass separate laws this [...]
Operation Fast and Furious a Deadly Govt Failure
Raven Claybough wrote this about a year ago. He was pretty spot-on about Operation Fast and Furious as far as I can tell! by Raven Clabough, Saturday, 18 June 2011 In an effort to combat the gun smuggling of Mexican drug cartels, law enforcement in the United States created “Operation Fast and Furious,” a.k.a. Project Gunrunner. The plan [...]
