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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 August 31, 2000 David Tuller |
Striking down medical marijuana San Francisco's pro-pot district attorney discusses the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling. |
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... |
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 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 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 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 February 2007 Greg Beato |
Pot Clubs in Peril Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA? |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Paul M. Barrett |
Attack of the Commerce Clause A new assault on regulation is gathering force -- and it's deploying a constitutional weapon |
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 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 |
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? |
BusinessWeek July 15, 2010 Palmeri & Marois |
The Latest Fiscal Buzz? Medical Marijuana Cities are taxing marijuana dispensaries to trim budget deficits. |
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. |
CFO August 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
High Court Upholds Health-Care Reform The Supreme Court's ruling leaves companies with decisions to make. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum |
Bongs Away! How the crusade against drug paraphernalia punishes controversial speech |
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 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 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 June 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition in the U.S. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 19, 2014 Michael Blanding |
Marketing Marijuana Forget Big Tobacco -- is the era of "Big Marijuana" that far off? |
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. |
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 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. |
Reason March 2003 Jacob Sullum |
High Road Is marijuana a "gateway"? |
Reason April 2008 Jacob Sullum |
No Bad Drugs Two books on drug use in America offer conflicting opinions and further emphasize the arbitrary distinctions at the root of drug prohibition. |
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 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." |
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." |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
The Supremes Shape Pharma A number of important decisions from the Supreme Court will affect drug marketing, research, and regulation |
BusinessWeek June 22, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
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. |
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. |
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). |
Reason January 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
America's Most Dangerous Politician I've been in New Mexico less than 10 minutes when I realize that no ordinary politician rules the Land of Enchantment... |
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... |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart vs. a Million Angry Women Wal-Mart wants the Supreme Court to block a huge gender-bias suit. |
Information Today July 11, 2013 |
Judge Rules Against Apple in Price-Fixing Trial The ebook price-fixing trial that began on June 3 and ended 17 days later has finally come to a close with the release of Judge Denise Cote's ruling on July 10. And the news isn't good for Apple. |
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. |
Salon.com December 11, 2000 |
Florida Supreme Court clarifies As the U.S. high court hears oral arguments, the Florida court says its ruling was based on state law... |
CRM July 2015 Marshall Lager |
Growing a New Market Business development for a different kind of cloud that includes marijuana. |
AskMen.com August 13, 2001 Bernie Alexander |
The Legalization Of Marijuana Not a day goes by when there is not a discussion about legalizing marijuana. The fact of the matter is that there are many existing factors that would both support and reject legalization... |
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2010 Matt Gunn |
Supreme Court Rejects Business Method Patent Ruling in Bilski v. Kappos doesn't shut door on business method patents, but doesn't clarify them either. |
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. |