Guest Post by Eapen Thampy, Executive Director of Americans for Forfeiture Reform Photo Credit Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images The Boston Herald reported last week that DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart sharply criticized President Obama’s stance on marijuana to a meeting of the National Sheriffs Association: “Kern County, Calif., Sheriff Donny Youngblood, president of the Major Counties Sheriffs’ […]
President Obama sent shockwaves across the country with his blunt comments to The New Yorker about marijuana legalization. In the lengthy piece, author David Remnick and President Obama share this exchange: “As has been well documented, I [Obama] smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not […]
Annapolis, MD – With bi-partisan support in the Senate, a bill will be introduced in Maryland to legalize the possession, cultivation, and retail sale of marijuana to adults over 21 years of age. The proposed bill is expected to be introduced early 2014 and will remove all criminal and civil penalties for the possession of […]
Texas Senator Ted Cruz gave a speech to the Texas Public Policy Foundation on January 10 in which he stated that, of all the “bad stuff” the nation has endured throughout Obama’s tenure, “one of the most dangerous is the consistent pattern of lawlessness from this President and this Administration.” Using the Dream Act, Obamacare, […]
History was made on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 when U.S Marine and Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti made the first legal purchase of recreational marijuana in Colorado. Azzariti suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, which is not a qualifying condition for marijuana under the state’s medical marijuana laws. He has been an activist for access to […]
A recent survey by Public Policy Polling has found that Texans are fed up with marijuana prohibition. The data is clear, a majority of Texans support changing the state’s marijuana laws. It is not a question of if, but when marijuana will become legal in Texas and who will be the leaders of that movement. […]
Pennsylvania State Representative Jim Cox (R) has joined the growing list of co-sponsors in support of a bill to allow safe access to medical marijuana. House Bill 1181 titled “Governor Raymond P. Shafer Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act” would authorize medical marijuana dispensaries and allow patients to grow up to six marijuana plants and possess […]
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