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Pro-Marijuana Legislator In Montana Targeted By DEA
Montana legislator Diane Sands has come under investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, and she’s not sure why. But Sands said she suspects the investigation is because she advocates liberalizing the marijuana laws.www.tokeofthetown…
42 Members of WA Legislature Ask DEA To Reschedule Marijuana
History was made on Wednesday as 42 members of the Washington Legislature petitioned the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule marijuana from its current Schedule I status to a less restrictive classification to allow for its medica…
Federal medical marijuana patient: Cannabis worked a ‘miracle’ for me | The Raw Story
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 5, 2011
LOS ANGELES — In 1988, Elvy Musikka (pictured, left) became the first woman in the United States to be legally permitted by the federal government to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, due to a case of Glaucoma that threatened to render her blin…
DEA Bans Chemicals Used to Mimic Marijuana
The Drug Enforcement Administration banned for at least a year the chemicals used to make K2 and Spice, herbs that mimic the marijuana high.www.usatoday.com
DEA To Ban Synthetic Marijuana In 30 Days
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday said it will ban five chemicals used to produce so-called “synthetic marijuana,” making the product illegal to sell or possess in the United States…www.tokeofthetown.com
Tough New Rules Weed Out Colorado Pot Shops
Posted by admin in Political News on August 1, 2010
One of every five medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado could be forced to close under tough new rules barring many convicted felons from the business starting Sunday, according to federal drug authorities. The Drug Enforcement Administration, whi…
Feds Raid Legal Marijuana Farm, Destroy Crops
Agents descended on the property of Joy Greenfield with guns drawn, tore out the plants and took Greenfield’s computer and cash. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has flouted Mendocino County, California’s newly enacted medical marijuana or…
DEA Flouts Med. Marijuana Ordinance By Raiding 1st Applicant
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on July 11, 2010
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has flouted Mendocino County, California’s newly enacted medical marijuana ordinance by raiding the first collective that had applied to the sheriff’s cultivation permit program. A multi-agency federal task f…
Polis Calls On Holder To Rein In ‘Rogue’ DEA Agents
Posted by admin in Political News on February 26, 2010
Rep. Jared Polis has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to look into whether the Drug Enforcement Administration acted inappropriately and in defiance of federal government policy by raiding and arresting a small medical marijuana grower in Colorado.
DEA Ignores AMA’s New Policy
Last week’s announcement from the American Medical Association — calling for a federal review of marijuana’s legal status — has been well received in the media, reaching the pages of The Washington Post, LA Times, and other publications. One group that hasn’t got the message is the Drug Enforcement Administration.
DEA Website Lies About Medical Marijuana and the AMA
Posted by admin in Political News on November 16, 2009
Despite the American Medical Association’s call for the reconsideration of marijuana’s Schedule I status last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration website still claims that “The American Medical Association recommends that marijuana remain a Schedule I controlled substance.”
Good News for Medical Marijuana | Baker Institute Blog
Posted by admin in Political News on November 2, 2009
Earlier this week, the Justice Department sent a memo to fourteen federal prosecutors, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), instructing them not to arrest or prosecute people who sell or use marijuana in compliance with state laws, even though federal law still prohibits such activity. This is a welcome change…
Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp On DEA Headquarters Lawn
Posted by admin in Political News on October 13, 2009
A group of civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders were arrested Tuesday morning while digging up the lawn to plant industrial hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Cultivating industrial hemp, the non-psychoactive cousin of marijuana, is illegal under the “drug war.”
Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough Inmates
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on October 6, 2009
For years prohibitionists, including our own Drug Enforcement Administration, have claimed — falsely — that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse. They may have trouble wrapping their little brains around this:
98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is “Ditc
More than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp, not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration. nice waste of taxes guys!
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