Rachel Alexander is a columnist at the conservative web site Town Hall. Today, in a piece entitled, “No One Serves Jail Time for Smoking Pot”, this former county prosecutor and editor of The Intellectual Conservative explains that “Smoking pot has actually been ‘de facto’ legalized across the U.S. The police […]

Update: Ronda Rousey to star in a movie based off of her autobiography.  As I blogged previously, UFC mma champion “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey is a dedicated fighter who eats the same thing nearly every morning: a breakfast of champions that includes two tablespoons of hemp seeds. Rousey’s dedication continues beyond […]

Last week marked the opening of Nevada’s first medical marijuana dispensary, Silver State Relief, where qualified patients can purchase marijuana-based remedies to treat conditions like cancer, pain, and PTSD. Silver State Relief opened up Friday morning in Sparks, Nevada, a few miles away from the city of Reno. The dispensary […]

The news media will certainly focus a lot on marijuana in the 2016 election. Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that marijuana is covered a lot in the media these days. Many mainstream media outlets, once strong opponents of legalization, have now embraced marijuana with spin-off publications […]

The new DEA Chief thinks heroin is “probably” more dangerous than marijuana and admits that he is not an expert on drugs (obviously). Clearly, anyone with half a brain, or has watched Trainspotting, knows that heroin is a much more dangerous drug than marijuana. More than 8,000 people died in […]

UPDATE: Chris Christie has doubled-down on his Reefer Madness rhetoric and has become a caricature of a serious presidential candidate.  UPDATE 2.0: Christie flip-flops and says that the Drug War is a “failure”?!? While delivering a speech on Thursday, New Jersey Governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie doubled-down on his […]

I must admit that I get some pleasure when prohibitionists make mistakes. After years of Reefer Madness propaganda and the perpetuation of the “dumb stoner” stereotypes, it just makes me feel good when those that have pushed the Drug War upon the American public goof themselves. One of the best […]

UPDATE: Ronda Rousey defends her title with a 34 second knockout of the previously undefeated Bethe Correia, invoking memories of a young Mike Tyson.  Former Olympic judo medalist Ronda Rousey is the most dominating fighter in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the world’s most preeminent mixed martial arts (mma) promotional […]

As we have been reporting for the past few months, Chris Christie is the worst kind of Reefer Madness prohibitionist: the radical type that is willing to use military-style SWAT raids against nonviolent American who utilize cannabis, even in states that have legalized marijuana. He has even called marijuana users […]

Judge Jim Gray is one of the last people that you would expect being a proponent for ending drug prohibition. Judge Gray is a true conservative who has become one of the top spokespeople for the drug law reform movement for over three decades now. He has experience as a […]

My conversation yesterday with prohibitionist author Dr. Ed Gogek MD included one portion where he made the claim that alcohol itself was no more dangerous than black tar heroin or crystal meth, but so many more people die from alcohol because it is legally accessible. So, apparently, because alcohol is legal […]

Chris Christie is making a habit of attacking states’ decisions to legalize marijuana, which he threatened to revoke this week should he become president. With the Republican debates only a week away, the New Jersey Governor is trying to stand out from other presidential candidates, and he has little time […]

On yesterday’s episode of The Russ Belville Show, I interviewed Dr. Ed Gogek MD. He is a thirty-year addiction specialist and author of “Marijuana Debunked: A handbook for parents, pundits, and politicians who want to know the case against legalization.” It’s rare to get a real live prohibitionist to talk […]

Medical marijuana may soon be legal in Australia, as soon as next month. A group of senators are pushing for parliament to adopt legislation, the Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill, that would create a federal agency tasked with regulating medical marijuana. This legislative effort has been endorsed by lawmakers of […]

UPDATE: Marijuana Politics scooped the first blog interview with Cyd Maurer and she will be speaking at the upcoming Oregon Medical Marijuana Business Conference. Last week, a television news anchor in Eugene, Oregon revealed she lost her job after testing positive for marijuana, despite the fact that the plant’s use […]