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U.S. Senate Votes to Prevent DEA Interference With Medical Marijuana
Federal lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill this week in a continued effort to prevent the U.S. Drug Enforcement…
Dozens Arrested in Denver-Area Pot Raids Targeting Exporters
By SADIE GURMAN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Police and federal agents arrested more than 40 people and…
DEA Letter Reveals Marijuana’s Schedule I Could Be Downgraded in 2016
While the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has spent decades spewing the swill of prohibitionists in an effort to…
Pot Matters: State Marijuana Legalization Helps the Feds Focus on Real Crime
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report in December 2015 about state marijuana legalization. The report was…
DEA Eases Restrictions on CBD Research to Benefit Big Pharma
There was speculation last week that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration might be on the verge of downgrading…
US Govt 2016 Budget Protects Medical Marijuana, But Snubs Veterans and Retail Pot Sales in Washington D.C.
Although there was a great deal of anticipation that the details of the latest federal spending bill would…
DEA Allows Cannabis Imports to Facilitate the Big Pharma of Marijuana
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has all but refused to acknowledge lawful cannabis producers as part of legitimate…
The DEA and Cannabis Prisoners
One of the most misleading arguments against the legalization of cannabis is that no one really goes to…
Federal Lawmakers Apply Pressure to Eliminate DEA Funds
Days after a legion of activists and federal lawmakers petitioned to have DEA acting chief, Chuck Rosenberg, tarred…
Congressman Earl Blumenauer Calls for DEA Chief Rosenberg to Be Fired
Acting DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg brought some heat down on himself earlier this month when he called the…
The History of DEA’s Opinion on Medical Marijuana
The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Chuck Rosenberg, made headlines this week when he said the following…
Fact: The DEA Is Spying on Your Instagram
The rise of the social network has made it more convenient for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to…
International Report: Peru and Venezuela
Another Giant Cannabis Bust Peru's Áncash Another massive marijuana raid is reported from Peru's high Andean region of…
New DEA Report Wants Us to Believe That Cops Don’t Care About Weed
While reports of law enforcement pulling underhanded stunts to bust people for weed seem no less common today…
DEA Chief Admits Pot Has ‘Great Promise’ As Medicine
In a slight break from his predecessors, DEA Chief Chuck Rosenberg said voters should have an intellectually honest…
Dope or Rope? Feds Raid Reservation of Wisconsin’s Menominee Tribe
DEA agents raided the reservation of Wisconsin’s Menominee Indian Tribe last week, destroying what federal authorities say was a crop…
Federal Court: US Government Is Breaking the Law By Interfering in Medical Marijuana
While the DEA has made no apologies for its liberal interpretation of a 2014 congressional amendment that was…
Riders of the Stoned: Senate Considers Illusionary Repeal of Prohibition
A series of federal spending bills were introduced last week by the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Senator…
DEA Agents Not Fired For Drugs, Drinking, Cover-Ups & Torture
I’m writing this piece for you today because eight years ago, the marijuana metabolites detected in my armpit hair led…
DEA Employees Fail Drug Tests, Still Allowed to Terrorize Marijuana Users
While the Drug Enforcement Administration continues to unleash a savage crackdown on marijuana across the United States, some…
