According to report from the Colorado Daily, 22-year old Michael Wilson died last weekend after being shot by a police officer with a Taser gun. Wilson was running from police and the “Boulder County Drug Task Force,” who had suspected him of growing marijuana in a nearby field.
Of course, Wilson is a [...]

A Radley Balko article on FoxNews presents an interesting list of suggestions for lessening the damages of the failed War on Drugs (which, as Balko points out, has not changed the drug use rate, has filled the jails while doing nothing to affect the dropping price of illegal drugs, and has had no effect on [...]

Back in the 60’s, when psychedelic, hallucinogenic drugs where relatively “new” to the average American (i.e. their EVIL hadn’t been recognized yet), they were used in several academic experiments studying the brain’s activity during reports of spiritual experiences. Since drugs like LSD and “magic” mushrooms (the active drug in which is psilocybin) were made [...]

In a surprise use of rationality, several Conservative British politicians are calling for the opium industry in Afghanistan to become legalized and regulated. Conservative Party leader David Cameron is among the most important voices in the discussion, which arose primarily in response to reports from British military officers in southern Afghanistan regarding the opium [...]

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) recently released a report entitled “Wasted in the War on Drugs” that shows evidence of tremendous waste and incompetence in the American government’s drug enforcement policies and practices.
Including among these wasteful practices is the prosecution of medicinal marijuana users in states in which medicinal marijuana is legal, and the repeated [...]

A study conducted by Yasmin Hurd at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on rats who were exposed to marijuana in their “adolesence” shows that they are no more likely to become addicted to heroin then those who were not. (And I always thought that the discrepancy between the 97 million Americans who have [...]

It has been more than ten years since the people of California, for all their quirks, wisely voted for the legalization of medically prescribed marijuana. Now, the city of San Francisco is still struggling with where to put the state-sanctioned, medicinal marijuana clubs. Recently booted from residential areas, many of these clubs are [...]

For the last five years, Prarie Plant Systems has been the sole provider of marijuana to the Canadian government for research and medicinal usage. The contract, however, is about to run out, leaving Canada to seek bids from other companies.
The re-opening of competition is not necessarily the result of dissatisifaction with Prarie [...]

For the last five years, Prarie Plant Systems has been the sole provider of marijuana to the Canadian government for research and medicinal usage. The contract, however, is about to run out, leaving Canada to seek bids from other companies.
The re-opening of competition is not necessarily the result of dissatisifaction with Prarie [...]

You know that meth epidemic spreading throughout the nation? Well, it turns out, maybe it isn’t a spreading epidemic so much as a media creation. Observe:
So where is the wave of meth sweeping the nation and destroying communities? It’s on the cover of Newsweek so it must be true! Well, funnily enough it [...]