U.S.: 25th Anniversary of President Bush's Infamous Speech Escalating War On...
Bush Held Up Bag of Crack Said to be Bought in Front of White House, Turned Out Drug Seller Was Set Up for the SpeechBush’s Crack Speech Defined America’s Punitive Drug War Approach of 1980s &...
View ArticleD.C.: Marijuana Legalization Campaign Gets New Slogans
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsWith less than 60 days until the general election, the D.C. Cannabis Campaign has announced two new slogans that will be used in their effort to legalize marijuana in the...
View ArticleU.S.: Obama To Nominate Pro-Legalization Candidate To Lead DOJ Civil Rights...
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Vanita Gupta, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy legal director, to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, Sari Horiwitz at The...
View ArticleStudy: Marijuana Use -- Even Heavy Use -- Doesn't Lower IQ
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsA new study from the University College of London of 2,612 children in the United Kingdom examined children's IQ scores at age 8 and again at age 15, and found "no...
View ArticleU.S.: Legal Marijuana Industry Could Be Bigger Than NFL By 2020
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsA new report projects that legal marijuana could be an industry with revenues of $35 billion by 2020 if cannabis is legalized at the federal level. Greenwave Advisors, which...
View ArticleD.C.: House Republican Vows To Block Marijuana Legalization In Nation's Capital
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsOne House Republican said on Wednesday that he will do all he can to block implementation of the marijuana legalization measure approved by District of Columbia voters on...
View ArticleU.S.: Willie Nelson Says Obama 'May Be Happy' About DC Marijuana Legalization
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsPresident Obama "may be happy" that D.C. voters legalized marijuana in the nation's capital, according to country music legend and stalwart cannabis supporter Willie...
View ArticleU.S.: Here's What's In The Historic Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Being...
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsThe historic medical marijuana bill being introduced in the United States Senate on Tuesday -- the first ever such bill ever introduced in the Senate -- would end the federal...
View ArticleU.S.: Stereotype of College-Educated Pot Smoker Is Wrong
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsWhen marijuana's popularity exploded on the American cultural scene in the 1970s, college students figured prominently among the early adopters. Conservatives even imagined...
View ArticleWashington: 10-Person Team Sells Marijuana For City Government
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsJust a few days after it opened, the nation's only government-run marijuana shop was running low on weed. Open for just a few days, manager Robyn Legun, 36, was frantically...
View ArticleVirginia: School Suspends 11-Year-Old For A Year For Leaf That Wasn't Marijuana
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsAn 11-year-old sixth grader in Virginia has been suspended from school for 364 days after being caught with a leaf that wasn't even marijuana.It happened last September to the...
View ArticleD.C.: New Beer Smells Like Marijuana (But Doesn't Have Any In It)
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsThose who enjoy the smell of marijuana along with their beer might be interested in a new offering from the District of Columbia's DC Brau brewery. "Smells of Freedom" is the...
View ArticleMaryland: House Bill Excludes Marijuana As Parole Violation
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsParolees in Maryland who use or possess small amounts of marijuana would no longer be violation of their sentences under a bill narrowly approved by the Maryland House of...
View ArticleIndiana: First Church of Cannabis Approved After 'Religious Freedom' Law Passed
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsTurning around a new law originally intended as a tool of intolerance against gays, the First Church of Cannabis Inc. has been approved by Indiana's secretary of state after...
View ArticleD.C.: No Legal Marijuana Sales For 2 More Years Under GOP House Budget Bill
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsAfter the District of Columbia's voters chose to legalize recreational marijuana, Republicans in Congress flirted with the idea of limiting D.C.'s ability to implement the...
View ArticleU.S.: Department of Justice Admits Lying To Congress About Medical Marijuana
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsThe U.S. Justice Department warned Congress last year that a medical marijuana provision included in an appropriations bill could "limit or possibly eliminate the Department's...
View ArticleTexas: Police Search Woman's Vagina For Marijuana - In Parking Lot
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsA Texas woman says sheriff's deputies violated constitutional protections by conducting a body cavity search in the parking lot of a gas station during a routine traffic stop...
View ArticleHawaii: Medical Marijuana Patients Rely On Down-Low Grower Network
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsMost of Hawaii's 13,000 medical marijuana patients first had to commit a crime to obtain and grow their medicinal cannabis under the state's laws. Though Hawaii voters...
View ArticleU.S.: Evidence Shows Legalizing Marijuana Unlikely To Turn Kids Into Potheads
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsSupporters of the War On Drugs often claim that loosening restrictions on marijuana use -- such as decriminalization, allowing medicinal use, legalizing it completely, or even...
View ArticlePakistan: Military Conflict Threatens Marijuana Crop
By Steve Elliott Hemp NewsPakistan's traditional marijuana crop, basis of its thriving hashish industry, is being threatened by Pakistan's decade-long war against terrorism and Islamist...
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