http://hightimes.com en-us 0.4 They know the difference between pot and heroin – even if the Drug Czar doesn’t.   Teens are “just saying no” to alcohol, cigarettes and other dangerous drugs in record numbers. Yet the Drug Czar and the mainstream media only want to talk about pot.   That’s the take-home message from the findings of the 2011 “Monitoring the Future” study. The survey, first instituted in 1975, annually polls the self-reported use of various licit …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/7599?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:02:10 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/7599?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano 2011: The Year the Drug Warriors Struck Back   “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they Fight you, then you win.”  —Mahatma Gandhi   It should be obvious to marijuana-law reform advocates that 2011 was the year the government decided to fight back – and fight back with a vengeance. By year’s end, it was apparent that President Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to respect state medical-marijuana laws had become ancient …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/parmentano/7548?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:59:07 -0500 http://hightimes.com/lounge/parmentano/7548?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano   By Paul Armentano   Prohibitionists have a long history of exploiting tragedy to further their own Drug War agenda. Case in point: Members of Congress in the 1980s seized upon the cocaine overdose of basketball star Len Bias to enact sweeping legislative changes that established mandatory-minimum sentencing in drug crimes, random workplace drug-testing for public employees …More]]> http://hightimes.com/lounge/parmentano/7105?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Mon, 16 May 2011 14:11:51 -0400 http://hightimes.com/lounge/parmentano/7105?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/4409?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:51:59 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/4409?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/4225?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:04:43 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/4225?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano By Paul Armentano Dr. Tod Hiro Mikuriya, one of the world's foremost authorities on the therapeutic use of cannabis, died on Sunday after a multi-year battle with cancer. He was 73-years-old. Dr. Mikuriya spent the better part of the past 40 years investigating the medical utility of pot, beginning with an appointment as the Director for Marijuana Research for the National Institute of Mental Health in 1967. In the late 1960s, he began publishing some of the first 'modern' scientific …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/2256?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Tue, 22 May 2007 12:32:59 -0400 http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/2256?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano By Paul Armentano If you toke in the Big Apple, chances are you’ve had a run-in with one of New York’s ‘finest.’ If you’re African-American or Hispanic, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis. That’s the dope from a new study by investigators at the National Development Research Institute (NDRI) - an independent New York City think-tank specializing in substance abuse issues. The study, entitled “The race/ethnicity disparity …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/3811?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:49:25 -0400 http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/3811?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano By Paul Armentano When most Americans think of Flint, Michigan, the first images to come to mind are those memorialized in Michael Moore’s 1989 debut, Roger & Me, which documented the economic decline of the filmmakers’ home town after layoffs ravaged the city in the late 80s. More than 15 years later, Flint may finally have a new image among the American public: one of pot tolerance. On Tuesday, voters overwhelmingly made Flint (population 125,000) the fifth city …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/1783?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:41:13 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/1783?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano By Paul Armentano Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrative Law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner ruled last week that the private production of cannabis for research purposes is "in the public interest." Her ruling affirms that the DEA in 2004 improperly rejected an application from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to manufacture cannabis for FDA-approved research. Bittner's decision comes six months after the DEA conducted hearings on the issue. At that time, lawyers for …More]]> http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/1703?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:24:59 -0500 http://hightimes.com/news/parmentano/1703?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano By Paul Armentano While drug law reformers should not view the initiative process as the primary mechanism for enacting substantive legislative reform (that duty still belongs to state legislatures and Congress), there’s little doubt that voter initiatives have been a highly successful way for activists to amend and overturn some of America’s more egregious marijuana policies. Of the eleven states (Medical Marijuana Programs) that have passed legislation legalizing the …More]]> http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/3711?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:14:12 -0400 http://hightimes.com/legal/parmentano/3711?utm_source=rss_section_Paul Armentano Paul Armentano