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Apparently Peter Dunne thinks I'm wrong about bringing medical marijuana into New Zealand. Here's a longer discussion of why I don't think I am. Yesterday I wrote this post, leveraging off a RNZ story about a judge discharging a woman without conviction for mailing herself medical marijuana...

In Vancouver there are more pot shops than Starbucks. Many marijuana dispensaries are successful, but technically illegal, which is why established retailers have avoided getting into the pot game. But with a new federal government that has a more relaxed approach to marijuana, the rules...

Sometimes, the pain is unbearable. Often it's tormenting, but managed by concentrating on something pleasant as a distraction. Mostly it's debilitating, constant, and difficult to endure. It will never go away; it is incurable. This pain is mine. I refuse prescription drugs because they are...

Big Pharma must be getting seriously worried by the results of a recent survey conducted by the Centre for Addictions Research of BC The pharmaceutical (along with the alcohol) industry is a powerful influences in Washington and has long been lobbying against cannabis legalization in order to...

TERRITORY stoners and medicinal marijuana smokers are becoming increasingly paranoid they will be caught out by tougher drug-driving laws. But Police Minister Peter Chandler said there would be no leniency for medicinal marijuana smokers when the new laws come into effect on February 1...

Mark Emmert does not look like a particularly radical man, and the organization over which he presides, the NCAA, is a paper lion whose own self-interest is in preserving the illusion of its own authority. So of all America's institutions, the NCAA would rank low when it came to "likelihood...

Cannabis users who have not taken the drug for a week or more could be prosecuted under proposed new drug-driving legislation, the Transport Minister said today. At the moment, motorists who use drugs can be prosecuted only if their driving is impaired, but this new legislation would allow...

Former justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has called on the SNP Government to stop treating drug users as criminals. MacAskill, who served for seven years under Alex Salmond, claimed the war on drugs had failed across the world and said that police would be better targeting criminal gangs...

Saskatchewan Government Insurance says it's not targeting medical marijuana users with a tweet showing pot and a medicine bottle that warns against driving while "high." The message appeared Tuesday on Twitter and read, "Just because you have a prescription, doesn't mean you can drive while...

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida has shown that alcohol is far more of a "gateway drug" than Cannabis is. The study concluded that: Results from the Guttman scale indicated that alcohol represented the "gateway" drug, leading to the use of tobacco...

Even though more states are legalizing medical marijuana, and federal officials have claimed that the prosecution of pot smokers is no longer a priority, the "war on drugs" continues to destroy the lives of Americans suffering from dire medical conditions. Sean Kiernan is a U.S. Army veteran...

Even though more states are legalizing medical marijuana, and federal officials have claimed that the prosecution of pot smokers is no longer a priority, the "war on drugs" continues to destroy the lives of Americans suffering from dire medical conditions. Sean Kiernan is a U.S. Army veteran...

Every day we continue to lose the war on drugs and millions of dollars per day fighting it just as the law enforcement officers understand (L.E.A.P.). I am a member or NORML NATIONAL, a member of NORML in my home state that is in prohibition from medicinal cannabis, I am a member of the...

YouTube - American Drug War Economics - Volume 1 Ending drug prohibition and focusing on addiction as a sickness, like alcohol and prescription drugs, could save the U.S. economy and millions of lives. Please pass this video on to as many people as you can. We need your help to end the War...

Despite tons of research to the contrary, organizations like the Drug Free America continue to spout untruths about marijuana. Fortunately there's MPP to catch them when they lie: YouTube - Lies in the War on Marijuana