A federal judge in Sacramento this week dismissed a federal lawsuit filed in November by…
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Obama administration officials strongly oppose plans by the city of Oakland to license and tax…
As NORML has warned, President Obama has nominated Michele Leonhart to head the Drug Enforcement…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 21, 2010 Following Recent Raids, Medical Marijuana Advocacy Groups Call…
It’s the ‘Catch-22’ that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis, but the federal agency in charge of such research bars these investigations from ever taking place.
The remarks from our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on the release of the UN 2009 World Drug Report, which endorsed drug decriminalization in a reversal of previous policy. Guess which 17-letter D-word never gets mentioned once in our “drug czar’s” 781-word statement?
Nearly three-quarters of the American public agrees with this position. According to a new national poll of 1,053 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by the NORML Foundation, seventy-two percent of voters say that President Obama should “stop federal raids against medical marijuana providers in the 13 states where medical marijuana has become legal.”
Just days after November’s Presidential election I outlined various ways that President-Elect Obama could use the power of the executive branch to shape U.S. marijuana policy.