Drug War


U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states?

by Bob Egelko, SF Chronicle U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California....

A Tenth Amendment victory?

by Jason Pye, The Liberty Papers This may be the only time that President Obama doesnรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt try to undermine the sovereignty of individual states granted by the Tenth Amendment, but Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขll take it: Drug Enforcement Administration agents this week raided four medical...

Will Obama Stop the Medical Marijuana Raids?

by Anthony Gregory, CampaignforLiberty In 1996, California passed proposition 215, allowing for medical marijuana. We have seen similar decriminalization measures in Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode...

Let states decide on medical marijuana

Robert Sharpe, Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, makes the point pretty clear in this letter to the Sheboygan Press: While there have been studies showing that marijuana can shrink cancerous tumors, medical marijuana is essentially a palliative drug. If...

Feds violated 10th Amendment. Again.

As It Stands by Dave Stancliff/For the Eureka Times-Standard A landmark decision for all Californian’s quietly made history on August 20th in a Santa Cruz courtroom. For the first time since 1996, when the Compassionate Use Act was passed, the federal...