[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up for NORML's free e-zine here.]
One of the indirect though no less serious consequences of marijuana prohibition is the mischaracterization of clinical research in order to support the federal government’s bankrupt policy.
Monroe Evening News / 16 May 2010 / Ray Kisonas,
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There's an eye-popping proposal that's a bit unsettling to some community leaders even though it could produce much-needed revenue for Monroe County.
MI: Saginaw County Sheriff Defends Seizure At Saginaw Township Man's Home, Says New Medical Marijuana Law Complicates Matters Saginaw News / 16 May 2010 / Gus Burns
Over the past 6 months the UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)—an independent expert body that advises government on drug-related issues—has hardly been out of the headlines.