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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hinted Tuesday there are changes on the horizon as to how the Justice Department handles marijuana enforcement in states that have legalized use of the drug in some form. “We follow the law and the science. From a legal and scientific perspective...

In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, under the instructions of President Trump, re-declared the war on drugs. The administration reinstated mandatory minimum sentencing, which means everyone involved in federal drug offenses are charged with the most serious crimes possible. That rolled back...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday. The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from...

As early as today, Corey Ladd will get to hug his 5-year-old daughter Charlee for the first time outside of prison. In 2011, Ladd was arrested in New Orleans for possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Because he had two prior felony convictions for simple drug possession, he was charged as a...

The battle between US states and the federal power is intensifying as California gets closer to becoming a 'sanctuary state,' safe from federal power against cannabis. The vote took place just over a week ago, and represented one of the first tangible legal actions taken in the unspoken...

On this week’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, Bee sandwiched her weekly rundown of the various layers of bullshit the Trump administration is burying the country under to focus on the predictably racist and atavistic drug policies of currently embattled Attorney General and “apple-cheeked...

For the first time in U.S. History, more Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses than were killed in the Vietnam War. Let that sink in. Last year's death toll in the War on Drugs was 59,000 killed, while during the entire Vietnam War, 1955 to 1975, 58,220 American service members' lives were...

Doctors will be able to prescribe a form of medical marijuana without needing Government approval, Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne announced today. Dunne said that restrictions around cannabidiol, or CBD, would be removed, bringing New Zealand into line with other countries including...

Fairfield City Council has recently unanimously voted to ban all aspects of Ohio's medical marijuana legislation, except for testing (the legislation does not allow us to ban this aspect). In concert with our Prevention Coalition, we felt it would be an inconsistent message to our youth and the...

Angela Pryor, a 41-year-old woman from Ross County, Ohio, is not living the life she thought she would. She used to stay at home and take care of her kids while her husband, Jesse, went to work as a carpenter. But as Jesse fell into opioid addiction, Angela had to pick up the slack. It became...

While American foreign policy has for years fixated on the conflict in Syria and the Middle East, just across the border in Mexico and throughout Central America tens of thousands of people lost their lives last year because of the conflict between drug cartels competing to deliver illicit drugs...

The oppressed minority that no major politician will stand up for is the Casual Drug-Using American. That's about 20 million people, according to the most recent National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. About 20 million Americans are drug users–who primarily consume marijuana–as opposed to drug...

Orange County sheriff's deputy Colton Walsh told the man facing him to watch the movement of his index finger as Walsh swept it across his face. Then Walsh put the man, who had been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, through more tests, including shining a light in his eyes...

Uruguay has become the first country to completely legalize cannabis. The country became the first place in the world to permit the professional cultivation of marijuana plants in 2014 and from July new legislation it will be legal to sell it over the counter. The move will make it the...

During the lull between legislative sessions, the marijuana lobby is preparing its next big push to legalize pot in Indiana. These activists want you to believe their end goal is inevitable. The only question in their minds is how long they must wait for the rest of us backward Hoosiers (as...

Since he became an advocate for marijuana legalization more than a decade ago, Mason Tvert, now director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project, says he's been approached countless times by people who tell him he should stop using the word "marijuana" because of its racist origins...

Though illegal for nearly 50 years under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the possession and sale of marijuana seems to be losing its negative stigma. Medical marijuana is legal in 29 states, and the recreational use of marijuana is legal in Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Alaska, California...

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds children with severe epilepsy who suffer from seizures are being helped by a drug derived from marijuana. Findings stemming from the research trial could have impacts on Idaho policy. The kids participating in the study include...

Officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Barack Obama wanted to take a more lenient stance on marijuana, with one former official telling HuffPost that staff pushed to ease federal prohibitions against the drug. But they never made that case directly to the public...

The question of why cannabis remains illegal becomes more unavoidable by the day, as scientific evidence mounts for its medicinal powers and states continue to decriminalize the plant. The legal drugs of alcohol and nicotine kill hundreds of thousands every year and have little to no medical...