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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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Reason February 2007 Greg Beato |
Pot Clubs in Peril Are San Francisco zoning boards a bigger threat to medical marijuana than the DEA? |
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 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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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." |
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. |
Fast Company February 2004 Bill Breen |
Pipe Dream? Rick Doblin has a prescription for fixing NIDA's ailing medical-marijuana program: establish an alternative. |
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. |
Fast Company February 2004 Bill Breen |
Dr. Dope's Connection David Watson, the CEO of the Dutch pharmaceutical R&D company Hortapharm, has assembled what is arguably the world's most comprehensive cannabis-seed library. |
Chemistry World February 17, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Clinical trials high on list for medical marijuana community The drug's controlled status is continuing to slow efforts to investigate the myriad compounds in the plant. |
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 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 October 2002 Jeff Taylor |
Balance Sheet Clark County, Nevada, has decided not to outlaw lap dances at local strip clubs... Great Britain essentially decriminalizes pot use and sees a minor national drop in crime... San Francisco may get into the pot growing business... etc. |
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum |
DEA Tax Collectors Medical marijuana raids |
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? |
Chemistry World February 3, 2015 |
High hopes The multi-target, rebalancing properties of cannabinoids also explains why they show promise as drugs in such a wide variety of conditions. |
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. |
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... |
Salon.com December 20, 2000 Jeff Stark |
Hollywood kicks the habit In the scorching new film "Traffic," director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs... |
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 October 13, 1999 Mark Gimein |
Pot pol George W.'s Silicon Valley point man, Tim Draper, isn't quiet about legalizing marijuana. |
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 |
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. |
Reason January 2002 Jacob Sullum |
Seeds of Discord It turns out that the hand cream you bought at The Body Shop last year was a controlled substance. But it's not anymore. Probably. This is the upshot of two rules the Drug Enforcement Administration unveiled in October... |