- Noam Chomsky - Why Marijuana is Illegal and Tobacco is Legal
- Meet Mark Kleiman, the Man Who Will Be Washington State's Pot Czar
- Sen. Paul: Obama, Bush 'lucky' they weren't arrested for smoking pot as kids
- Massachusetts Court: Marijuana Smell Not Enough for Traffic Stop—"Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules a police officer may no longer search a motorist merely on the basis of smelling pot."
- Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid—"Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables." Hope they win their lawsuit against these thugs.
- Police stakeouts hurt hydroponics shops, critics say
- Sheriff's bust legal pot-grower
- Parrish man growing medical marijuana rejects plea bargain —"Robert Jordan, who grows marijuana to help treat Cathy Jordan's Lou Gehrig's disease, said he refused the state's plea deal because it required him to give up his right to a fair trial or stop cultivating the plant."
- Yes We Cannabis: The Legalization Movement Plots Its Next 4 Years
- Medical Marijuana: Illinois House passes pro-dispensary rules
- Rhode Island Decriminalizes Minor Marijuana Possession—"[P]ossession of less than one ounce of marijuana will be punishable only by a $150 fine... with no associated jail time."
- St. Louis reduces penalty for marijuana possession—"Small amount would be penalized same as a traffic ticket."
- Indiana: Criminal-sentencing overhaul may get tougher on pot—And there are the ones stuck in the past.
- UNICEF rates Canadian teens No. 1 at smoking weed
- 8000 suspected pot cookies found in White Rock home—RCMP: "It was a bit like a bakery in there."
- Opinion: The conservative pro-pot argument—"If you want smaller government and you want the government out of people's private lives, you need to support the legalization of marijuana. It's the logically consistent viewpoint for a conservative."
- Financial crisis caused by too many bankers taking cocaine, says former drugs tsar—"David Nutt, the former Government drugs tsar sacked after claiming that horse riding was as safe as taking ecstasy, has said that the banking crisis was caused by too many workers taking cocaine."
- Her Name Was Rachel Hoffman
- The Wildly Disproportionate Cruelty of Drug Sentences
- The trouble with using police informants in the US—"Some law enforcement agencies in the US use informants in as many as 90% of their drug cases. But there are surprisingly few rules on how informants are used and a groundswell of calls for the system to be reformed."
- Judge again orders stop to Missouri college drug tests
- 'The War on Drugs Is a Failure'—"The Gregory Brothers' musical mash-up features Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and former Congressman Ron Paul, who argue for the reform of United States drug laws." NYT
- The War on Drugs Is Far More Immoral Than Most Drug Use—"A prohibitionist says libertarians dismiss moral considerations when they call for legalization. The truth is quite the opposite."
- Brad Pitt: America's war on drugs is a charade, and a failure
- The War On Drugs Is Still Not Working
- 'This Is Working': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs
- Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?—"When the law gets bent out of shape for him, it’s easier to bend out of shape of the rest of us."
- Boston bombing: How internet detectives got it very wrong
- GOP Lawmaker On Manhunt: 'How Many Boston Liberals Spent The Night Cowering…Wishing They Had An AR-15?'
