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American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana’s Prohibitive Status

11-14-2009 • norml.org via Rense.com

Houston, TX: The American Medical Association (AMA) this week called for a scientific review of cannabis’ federal status as a Schedule I prohibited substance.
On Tuesday, the AMA’s House of Delegates resolved, “[The] AMA urges that marijuana’s status as a federal Schedule I controlled substance be reviewed with the [...]

FBI director gets schooled on marijuana legalization

Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen takes FBI Director Robert Mueller to task on marijuana legalization and the “gateway theory.”

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Congressman Frank was present during 2007 marijuana bust

Report: Congressman Frank was present during 2007 marijuana bust

By Stephen C. Webster
Tipped off by two unnamed individuals, MyFox Boston claims to have unearthed a police report placing Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) at the home of his longtime partner when police arrested the man and charged him with marijuana cultivation, possession and paraphernalia.
In a telephone [...]

Duh?: Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister

A foreign soldier walks through a poppy field in Afghanistan.

The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.
General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.
He went [...]

Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs

Sacked – for telling the truth about drugs
Government fires top adviser for challenging its hardline policy on cannabis and ecstasy
By Jeremy Laurance
October 31, 2009
The Government’s drugs tsar was forced to resign last night for stating his view that cannabis, ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than the legal drugs tobacco and alcohol.
The Home Secretary Alan [...]

Karzai Drug Dealing Brother On CIA Payroll-

What A Shocker

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Report: Taliban trying to turn US troops into heroin addicts

Source: RawStory

Insurgents in Afghanistan are using heroin as a tactical weapon against US forces, hoping to emulate the drug problems that plagued US troops in Vietnam and Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, says a new investigative report.
In a report at the Daily Beast, author Gerald Posner cites “an internal US intelligence report” that [...]

Marijuana law has had little effect on schools

10-05-2009 • Metrowest Daily News

In the first year since voters decided to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot, school officials said districts aren’t seeing escalating drug problems, though they worry the law may encourage marijuana use among students.
At Framingham High School, Principal Michael Welch said six kids in the past month [...]

Top anti-drug official was ’secret ally of drug lords’

By Stephen C. Webster

Published: September 17, 2009
DEA says key ICE official sold info about informants, ran Panamanian cocaine to Spain via US ports
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran anti-drug official, is behind bars, arrested after officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling important information in [...]

Over 100 Million Americans Have Smoked Marijuana — And It’s Still Illegal?

By Paul Armentano,
41 percent of the U.S. population say they’ve tried cannabis at least once in their lives, 10 percent say they’ve used it in the last year.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has once again released their annual survey on “drug use and health” — you know, the one where representatives [...]

Prosecutorial Discretion in Action: Andrew Sullivan Skates on Marijuana Charge

Prosecutorial Discretion in Action: Andrew Sullivan Skates on Marijuana Charge

Prosecutors say they need a lot of discretion.  Why?  So that they can prosecute the powerless, while refusing to prosecute the powerful and connected?  You think I’m some sort of wild-eyed Marxist?
Hardly.  Here’s a typical case (via):

Political commentator, author and writer for The Atlantic magazine Andrew [...]

Hitmen Kill 17 in Mexico Clinic on U.S. Border, Deputy Police Chief

Source: Reuters
About a dozen hooded gunmen burst into a Mexican rehabilitation clinic near the U.S. border on Wednesday, lining up patients before killing 17 of them.
Drug gangs have targeted rehab clinics in the manufacturing city of Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, accusing them of protecting dealers from rival gangs.
The attack was one of [...]

Mexican Army takes over customs on US border

Source: AFP
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexico’s Army took control of customs Sunday on the busy US border, as federal authorities pulled agents off the job in a massive anti-corruption shakeup, officials told AFP.
An Interior Ministry official said the dismissals were being carried out at all Mexican border facilities, and that the customs agents were being [...]

Mexico decriminalizes drug possession

Mexico decriminalizes drug possession for small amounts as it battles big-time traffickers
MARK STEVENSON
AP News

Aug 21, 2009 06:49 EST
Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday — a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government’s grueling battle against drug traffickers.
Prosecutors said the new law sets clear limits [...]

Skunk cannabis can make well users psychotic: study

From: Skunk cannabis can make well users psychotic: study

Quote:

July 28, 2009 – 3:33PM
Potent cannabis can cause psychosis in healthy people, a new British study has proved conclusively.
The results appear to confirm a link between psychosis and skunk cannabis, which accounts for 80 per cent of street seizures of the drug.
Scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry [...]

Afghani crops: The next U.S. scapegoat

Angela Macdonald

DoD- 300 tons of poppy are blown up by air-strike in southern
Afghanistan
July 24, 2009
As if our government has any control over what they call a drug “problem” in the United States, they are now taking their show on the road. Early this week, the U.S. military [...]

Chronic City: To Tax Pot, Or Not? Oakland Votes Tuesday

By Steve Elliott in SF Weekly
Monday, Jul. 20 2009 @ 3:59PM

Photo: chron.ron

The color of money

Mail-in voting closes Tuesday on Measure F, a new ordinance in Oakland which would impose a special tax on sales of medical marijuana in the city’s dispensaries. The measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States to [...]

The Tet Offensive of Mexico’s Drug War?

The Tet Offensive of Mexico’s Drug War?

By Robert Mackey AND Elias E. Lopez

Quadratin Outside a Mexican federal police barracks in the state of Michoacán, where three police officers were killed during an attack by a drug cartel on Saturday, July 11.
Update | 6:56 p.m. The Mexican newspaper El Universal reports that a man believed [...]

Marijuana Activist Silenced By Judge as Condition of Probation

from Drug War Chronicle

For most of this decade, Bob Newland has been the voice of marijuana law reform in South Dakota. The photographer and Black Hills resident has organized Hempfests, lobbied for reform legislation in the state capitol, relentlessly crisscrossed the state from the Black Hills to the Sioux Valley, and organized medical marijuana petition [...]

UK ‘Europe’s cocaine capital’

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