- Obama Hates Medical Marijuana And He Doesn't Care What The States Think
- U.S. Attorney Said Montana Medical Pot Growers Wouldn't Be Prosecuted -- Now They're Facing Life in Prison
- Obama Administration Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Unprecedented Rate
- Orlando attorney John Morgan: Florida's medical marijuana amendment petition to be filed
- Arizona ruling on return of seized marijuana stands—"The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's ruling that the Yuma County sheriff must return marijuana seized from a woman with a California medical marijuana authorization honored by Arizona."
- Federally Sponsored Marijuana Study Backfires: Scientists Conclude DEA Should Reclassify Cannabis—Hoist by their own petard.
- Patients' advocates ask Supreme Court to decide medical value of marijuana
- Medical Marijuana for Kids?—"The drug has brought relief to children suffering from cancer and other serious ailments, but getting access is often limited by considerable regulatory hurdles."
- Worried Parents Weigh Their Children's Health Against Medical Marijuana Laws
- Majority Of Parents Support Medical Marijuana Legalization, Says Survey By Partnership At Drugfree.org
- Video: Ethan Nadelmann Trounces Former DEA Chief in Marijuana Debate at Aspen Institute
- U.S. Mayors to Obama: Quit Cracking Down on Marijuana
- Weed War: Marijuana Plants Sprout across German City
- Rules change on Olympic marijuana testing
- Google Quietly Giving Aid To Marijuana Activists
- Marijuana's march toward mainstream confounds feds
- Colorado Nullifies Federal Hemp Ban With Governor's Signature
- Marijuana legalization considered in Maine, DC, Calif.—"Marijuana legalization saw unprecedented success on the ballot in 2012, and the next few rounds of elections could see even more loosening of restrictions on the drug."
- Australia: Expert calls for marijuana to be legalised to reduce harm of binge drinking in teens
- Five Reasons Cops Want to Legalize Marijuana—"More and more police officers are realizing the War on Drugs is a mistake."
- The War on Drugs Is Worse Than NSA Spying—"We've simply become accustomed to older, more ingrained abuses."
- "How to Make Money Selling Drugs": The war America keeps on losing—"A slick documentary with a jokey premise argues that the "war on drugs" has been a soul-destroying disaster." Salon
- West Virginia: Drugged Driving Bill Launches July 12—"[I]f officers think you've been taking some sort of drug and you fail the sobriety test, they can now test your urine or blood for possible drugs."
- Piss Testing Is a Failure—"Drug testing is a multi-billion dollar scam that targets the poor and steals money from Medicaid."
- Oklahoma DA halts I-40 drug stops after criticism—"Caddo County Special Judge David A. Stephens said he was shocked District Attorney Jason Hicks used private company to participate in drug busts when company officers not certified by state."
- US mom settles suit over poppy seed drug test
- Capture of Mexican mob boss began with a fed-up informant—"Insider gave up 'El Teo' to help 'clean up my country.' The hit to the Tijuana drug cartel has brought peace in Baja."
- How Terrifying Drug Raids Became A Cash Cow For America's Police
- Ohio Police Department Using Fake Drug Checkpoints—"Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they're not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs." NYT
- Mich. farmer with 8,000 pot plants gets probation—"A southeastern Michigan farmer recovering from throat cancer was sentenced to probation instead of prison Tuesday for growing thousands of marijuana plants, due partly to many handwritten letters from supporters who described him as a modest, selfless man who helps others at every turn."
- Meet Grandpa Pot: Ray McFeters faces prison for pot, but he's still smoking—"Pot saved my life. I'll never stop smoking pot."
- A Madison dad faces deportation for smoking weed as a teenager
- Radley Balko: "Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it"—"America's police are beginning to look like an army, and the author says there's very little we can do about it." Salon
- Have American Police Become Militarized? NYT
- Rise of the Warrior Cop—"Is it time to reconsider the militarization of American policing?" WSJ
- 'Prolific Partner': German Intelligence Used NSA Spy Program—"Angela Merkel and her ministers claim they first learned about the US government's comprehensive spying programs from press reports. But SPIEGEL has learned that German intelligence services themselves use one of the NSA's most valuable tools."
- NSA head admits the agency made "huge set of mistakes" in 2009—""The reason we use secrecy is not to hide it from the American people, not to hide it from you, but to hide it from those who walk among you who are trying to kill you."
- Glenn Greenwald: Growing Backlash Against NSA Spying Shows Why U.S. Wants to Silence Edward Snowden
- Germany should honour its debt and offer NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum
- Edward Snowden Is No Traitor—"Why treason charges against the NSA whistleblower don't hold up."
- No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
- Microsoft will "aggressively challenge" any government attempt to spy through Kinect
