- Obama says marijuana 'no more dangerous than alcohol'
- CNN Poll: Americans say marijuana is less dangerous than booze or tobacco
- National Review: Sensible on Weed—"Launching 17 million 'Rocky Mountain High' jokes, Colorado has become the first state to make the prudent choice of legalizing the consumption and sale of marijuana, thus dispensing with the charade of medical restrictions and recognizing the fact that, while some people smoke marijuana to counter the effects of chemotherapy, most people smoke marijuana to get high — and that is not the worst thing in the world."
- Marijuana injustices need to end WaPo
- Let's give pot smokers a little leeway—"Let's stop pretending that pot users are denizens of the underworld." WaPo
- Marijuana Prohibition Was Racist From The Start. Not Much Has Changed.
- Colorado Shop Owners Can't Keep Marijuana Edibles in Stock
- Colorado Springs Airports installs amnesty boxes for marijuana
- Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not locking up marijuana users in Colorado
- Colorado Republican Falls for Satire Story, Freaks Out and Proposes Bill Banning Food Stamps for Weed Purchases
- CDOT replaced 420 mile marker sign with 419.99 sign because of thieves
- New York governor announces plan for medical marijuana at hospitals—"Cuomo is acting without the legislature's OK, though what he's doing is legal, according to Gottfried. He explained that the governor is acting on powers granted through a law passed in 1980..." But is it enough?
- Reid Comes Out In Support Of Medical Marijuana
- Medical marijuana to be on 2014 Florida ballot—Not if Rick Scott can block it.
- Florida Bill Would Allow Medical Marijuana For Child Seizures
- Desperate parents turn to medical marijuana in last-ditch effort to improve their children's lives
- New Hampshire House passes recreational marijuana bill—Governor plans veto over "home grown" plants.
- Parents Come Out of the Pot Closet—"Two weeks after recreational marijuana stores opened in Colorado, baby boomers are lining up to celebrate. If anyone can decriminalize marijuana in the minds of Americans—it's them."
- Legal Weed Lures Investors to Marijuana Industry
- Managing marijuana in Uruguay
- Legalizing Pot Makes Police Departments Poorer—And afraid for their jobs.
- How Will For Profit Prison Stocks Respond to Marijuana Legalization?
- Banks Say No to Marijuana Money, Legal or Not—Money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists is still OK. NYT
- Nancy Grace Debates Nancy Grace on the Effects of Cannabis
- Minnesota Officials Complain That Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Is A Waste Of Time And Money
- Nurses sue St. Thomas over strip searches for drug tests
- Man gives change to homeless person, is handcuffed and held by police for an hour
- UK: The Home Office admits it has no idea if the war on drugs is working—Comment: The war on drugs shows how scientifically illiterate our MPs have become
- Oregon State Patrol: Seattle couple busted for 44 pounds of pot
- Guard at elite Quebec school arrested in cocaine haul in Illinois—"A senior security guard at an elite Quebec private school is facing a serious criminal charge in Illinois after more than $1 million worth of cocaine was allegedly found in his vehicle."
- Canadian Forces warship makes big drug bust in Indian Ocean
- The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
- Firefight in western Mexico as vigilantes advance WaPo
- Mexican vigilantes seize new town from drug cartel
- Mexico to deploy federal forces in Michoacan conflict zone
- Mexican police start to disarm vigilantes in Michoacan—Not the cartels?
- Vigilantes Fight Army and Cartels in Mexico's Michoacan State
- California kids enlist in Mexico militias to rout a drug cartel—"Born in Mexico but raised in barrios of Southern California, these rifle-slinging fighters are holding down the front line in Michoacan's battle against a ruthless meth gang."
- Along MLK boulevards in the USA, an urban struggle
- "Misled into believing" MLK was a great man: How some Republicans fought against the King holiday—"These days, some conservatives embrace King. Let's revisit the fascinating battle within the GOP during the 1980s." Salon
- In Suggestions for Victorious Bus Boycotters, MLK's Powerful Turn Toward Nonviolence
- The greatest MLK speeches you never heard
- Marine Corps Apologizes for Gunman Reference in Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Tweet NYT
- How MLK ad helped define America's press freedoms
- Court: Bloggers have First Amendment protections
- Watchdog Journalism: 1, Wisconsin Cronyism: 0
- Greenwald: Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public—"Obama is draping the banner of change over the NSA status quo. Bulk surveillance that caused such outrage will remain in place."
- The NSA Speech: Obama Accepts the Logic of Staying Terrorized—"If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again."
- Congressional Leaders Suggest Earlier Snowden Link to Russia—"Edward J. Snowden may have worked with Russian spy agencies while he was still a contractor for the National Security Agency, Representative Mike Rogers said." Is that desparate shitflinging I see? NYT
- Spying revelations: Tory MP Dominic Raab attacks UK's 'comatose' reaction—"British government 'must follow Barack Obama's lead and introduce sweeping reforms to government spy agencies.'"
- As Obama Speaks, Why Is the UK So Quiet on Surveillance?
- Supreme Court to rule on 4th Amendment, cellphone searches
- NSA's monitoring is a violation of Fourth Amendment rights
- Alan Rusbridger: Westminster is hoping Snowden revelations go away—"Guardian editor accuses UK politicians of failing to tackle issues raised by NSA revelations, which have sparked US debate."
- The Fact That The US Intelligence Community So Readily Admits To Fantasies Of Killing Ed Snowden Shows Why They Can't Be Trusted
- 'No way to safeguard your data' from NSA—"US intelligence has secretly installed software and devices on computers worldwide in order to spy on them, even when they're offline. A computer expert tells DW how it's possible - and what the US stood to gain."
- Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality—Totally forgot that the SOPA/PIPA protests were two years ago.
- Door Closes to Open Internet, But All May Not Be Lost
- Around the World, Net Neutrality Is Not a Reality
- A readers uses the Mafia to explain net neutrality WaPo
- Three Dangers of Losing Net Neutrality That Nobody’s Talking About
