Nevada Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Should No Longer Face Federal Prosecution

Nevada permits medical marijuana use for certain patients who meet state established criteria. Despite the fact the state has moved forward to allow for marijuana to be distributed to those who need it, dispensaries and growers continued to face potential legal threats.

A federal grand jury handed down indictments for six defendants in Las Vegas accused of involvement with trafficking pain killers throughout the West. Confidential informants alerted federal drug agents to an operation with more than 40 people involved. The operation involved patients.

I've got two reasons for being interested in the possibility that San Diego voters will make permanent a one-year beach alcohol ban in this year's election. The personal reason is that I'm originally from San Diego and still go down to the beach.

Come with me now to an alternative reality. Imagine that a young African American man has had a breakout R&B song called "Rehab," in which he boasts about the fact that he refuses to go to rehab. They've tried to make him.

What do "alcohol inhalers" -- devices that allow individuals to inhale alcohol vapor, and thereby get drunk without experiencing any hangover -- have to do with the much-toutedincreasing strength of marijuana? Just this: that our society has been able to draw a.

Lin Michaels stayed clean from drugs for fourteen years; however that changed due to no fault of her own. Lin trusted her doctor when he prescribed her pain killers that turned out to be very addictive. Being the daughter of an alcoholic.

How can it be that after the state of New York decriminalized possession of personal use quantities of marijuana, New York City police still manage to rack up tens of thousands of marijuana arrests every year -- including 33,000 arrests just in.

The LA Times has a long article today that must surely warm the heart of the politicians and law enforcement officials who are pushing to dismantle Prop. 36. Prop. 36, of course, is the voter-approved California initiative that allows first- and second-time.

The interpretation of fairly arcane drug jargon could provide a sufficient basis to determine the quantity of drugs an individual was conspiring to distribute, a Ninth Circuit panel held Wednesday in United States v. Rosales , No. 05-30260. The drug traffickers in this.

Back at the end of 2006 I posted an item about the need to focus on "winnable" areas of drug law and policy and to push actively for change in those areas. In response, both in the comments to the post and.