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Salon.com March 29, 2001 Daryl Lindsey |
Up in smoke The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to close down California's pot buyer's clubs... |
Salon.com May 15, 2001 Daniel Forbes |
Let them eat chemo Will the Supreme Court's ostrich-like ruling shut down the medical marijuana movement? |
Mother Jones February 2001 Evelyn Nieves |
Half an Ounce of Healing The desperately ill members of a Santa Cruz marijuana club aren't growing pot to get high or make money. They just want to find some relief... |
Salon.com March 27, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
"Humanitarian cease-fire" in the war on drugs A Maine sheriff wants the Legislature to let authorities dole out confiscated pot to people who need medicinal marijuana. |
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Chris Colin |
Doctor's orders: Get high A trip into the medical marijuana demimonde smokes out America's confusion about drugs, pleasure and morality... |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Palmeri & Marois |
The Latest Fiscal Buzz? Medical Marijuana Cities are taxing marijuana dispensaries to trim budget deficits. |
Reason February 2007 Greg Beato |
Pot Clubs in Peril Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA? |
Reason March 2002 Sara Rimensnyder |
One Toke over the Line In effect, the nation's highest court decided that state laws legalizing cannabis for medical use weren't worth a dime bag... |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Daniel Forbes |
Fighting "Cheech & Chong" medicine Did the White House drug office go too far in trying to stop the spread of medical marijuana initiatives? |
Reason January 2006 Jacob Sullum |
That Chemo Cachet Medical marijuana and kids: Hard as it is to believe, it appears that promoting marijuana as a medicine for cancer and AIDS patients does not make it seem cooler to American teenagers. |
Reason November 2008 Jacob Sullum |
Follow State Law, Go Directly to Jail The Drug Enforcement Administration has raided more than 60 medical marijuana dispensaries in the last two years. Because the deck is stacked against them, dispensary operators facing federal drug charges typically plead guilty. |
AskMen.com October 28, 2000 Joshua Levine |
The Benefits Of Marijuana Are you sick of hearing your girlfriend nagging you about letting go of your pot pasttime? Have you been hearing a lot of negative things about the use of marijuana lately? Would you like to know what the real deal is behind the use of this infamous drug? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Brian Doherty |
Weed Control: Feds make bad dealers Marijuana research in the United States is dominated by a lone, big-muscled monopolist: the federal government. |
Reason January 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Medicinal Grass Despite marijuana's low toxicity and long history of medicinal use, federal law puts it in a highly restrictive category. After decades of unsuccessful attempts to correct this anomaly, medical marijuana activists are trying a less direct approach. |
Fast Company February 2004 Bill Breen |
Pipe Dream? Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative. |
Fast Company February 2004 |
Pot Proponent Just Says No Medical marijuana's elder statesman is not convinced that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis can be separated from the psychoactive effects -- or that cannabis should be "pharmaceuticalized." |
Sports Illustrated December 4, 2002 L. Jon Wertheim |
Taking Their Hits Smoking marijuana is fundamental for many professional athletes, even though they're winding up on the blotter pages. |
Salon.com May 15, 2001 Dan Shapiro |
A nauseating ruling Clarence Thomas says marijuana has no medical use. Maybe he'd like to try my cancer... |
Reason August 2002 Sara Rimensnyder |
High Court How private are the private lives of judges? |
Fast Company Lydia Dishman |
Yes, You Can Get Fired For Doing Legal Drugs In the department of counter intuitive court rulings, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dish Network, when the company fired an employee for smoking marijuana. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 19, 2014 Michael Blanding |
Marketing Marijuana Forget Big Tobacco -- is the era of "Big Marijuana" that far off? |
AskMen.com June 29, 2003 Bernie Alexander |
Worldwide Marijuana Sanctions This article explores the way the justice systems of different countries, such as the Netherlands, Mexico and Thailand, deal with crimes involving marijuana |
Salon.com October 10, 2000 Arthur Allen |
The drug war's Tweedledee Does National Institute on Drug Abuse chief Alan Leshner push propaganda over science in his close coordination with drug czar Barry McCaffrey? |
AskMen.com |
No Jail For Weed Argentina's Supreme Court ruled out prison for pot possession on Tuesday, saying the government should go after major traffickers and provide treatment instead of jail for consumers of marijuana. |
Fast Company February 2004 Bill Breen |
The Cannabis Conundrum As the founder of a British pharmaceutical company puts it, if it weren't called marijuana there would be an entire biotech business built around this plant. And that's just what's starting to happen (but not for the U.S. drug industry or the American patients these medicines might help). |
Salon.com January 5, 2001 Daniel Forbes |
New Mexico thumbs its nose at the war on drugs A panel convened by Gov. Gary Johnson calls for the legalization of marijuana and a shift in focus from penal measures to treatment for drug offenders... |
Reason June 2002 Brian Dohery |
Watching the AG Maybe Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't the greatest threat to individual liberty since the Inquisition. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been alarming so far... |
Reason July 2003 Jacob Sullum |
Jury Ragging: Medical pot in federal courts When Ed Rosenthal was convicted on federal marijuana cultivation charges last winter, his friends and supporters were not the only ones who were upset. So were the people who convicted him. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2010 Sheelah Kolhatkar |
Reefer Sadness for Pot Farmers In Northern California's Humboldt County, small marijuana growers find the legalization of their business could be the worst thing that ever happened to them. |
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Fred Branfman |
"The drug war is a dismal failure" Bill Maher calls for legalization, and says parents should drug-test their kids if they want to. A talk with the man who defines politically incorrect. |
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Pot Holders Rejoice Drug decriminalization -- in November, Massachusetts voters approved Question 2, a ballot initiative that eliminates criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana |
Reason March 2003 Jacob Sullum |
High Road Is marijuana a "gateway"? |
Reason March 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Briefly Noted: Pot Mythology "Marijuana is not anti-establishment because it's illegal," writes High Times Executive Editor David Bienenstock in his new book. "It's illegal because it's anti-establishment." |
Salon.com October 13, 1999 Mark Gimein |
Pot pol George W.'s Silicon Valley point man, Tim Draper, isn't quiet about legalizing marijuana. |
Salon.com September 16, 2002 Arianna Huffington |
The latest Bush hypocrisy Gov. Jeb Bush calls for jail time for nonviolent drug offenders as his daughter gets sent to rehab. |
BusinessWeek December 29, 2010 |
Roscoe Filburn and the Commerce Clause Filburn lost his case opposing quotas. Here are other cases the decision influenced. |
AskMen.com |
In The Red? Maybe Weed Can Help A pro-marijuana group was set to launch another television bid to legalize pot in California -- this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state's massive budget deficit. |
Salon.com May 3, 2000 Carina Chocano |
The Whitney Houston rules The hypocrisy of America's marijuana laws is highlighted by the glamorous singer's non-arrest after she's found with a half-ounce of pot in an airport. |
Reason April 2002 Jacob Sullum |
Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws... |
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Bongs Away! How the crusade against drug paraphernalia punishes controversial speech |
Reason November 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Spliff Split Candidates on marijuana: The U.S. House of Representatives once again rejected a measure aimed at stopping the DEA's interference with the therapeutic use of cannabis in the 12 states where it's legal. |
Fast Company Alex Halperin |
The California-Colorado Cannabis War While California is the largest addressable cannabis market in the USA, the risks associated with setting up there outweighed the benefits. |
Salon.com October 12, 2000 Gary Kamiya |
Reefer madness America's surreal hypocrisy about recreational drugs has reached the full-blown Dali stage... |
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Data: Pot Bust If you have any lingering doubts about the political establishment's hypocrisy when it comes to drugs, consider this: Marijuana arrests reached an all-time high during the administration of the first acknowledged pot smoker to occupy the White House. |
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Jared Manasek |
Smoke signal Police in London's gritty Brixton neighborhood are losing the war on drugs, so the police chief is experimenting with not enforcing cannabis laws. |
Reason January 2008 Jacob Sullum |
Data: High Risk Overall, marijuana arrests in the U.S. have increased more than 150% since 1990. |
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum |
DEA Tax Collectors Medical marijuana raids |
AskMen.com Stephen Pym |
Pot Stocks On Fire, Lighting Up Market There are several marijuana-related stocks you can buy, across a diverse array of companies ranging from holding companies to services to technology. |
AskMen.com |
Is Weed Recession Proof? Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy. |
Reason June 2009 Matt Welch |
Obama Loses His "Cool" With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man. |