For those of you that don’t know, this week is the sixth annual Hemp History week. I thought it would be fun to post one
By Phillip Smith In a series of votes yesterday, the House voted to end the DEA’s controversial bulk data collection program and also passed three
Legislators voted by a simple voice vote last night to end the DEA’s controversial bulk data collection programs, as part of the U.S. House of
As the U.S. House of Representatives considers the Fiscal Year 2016 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill today and tomorrow, legislators could vote on at
A senior F.B.I. official and former U.S. attorney, Chuck Rosenberg, has been selected by President Obama as acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Rosenberg
The Drug Policy Alliance, the nation’s leading organization working to end the war on drugs, has placed a mock “Help Wanted” ad in Roll Call
Yesterday news broke that the Chief of the DEA, Michele Leonhart, would be stepping down soon. Michele Leonhart’s ‘retirement’ comes after a series of scandals
A senior White House official has said that the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Michele Leonhart, is expected to resign soon. The news
By Phillip Smith Fed up with DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart over a long litany of scandals in the drug-fighting agency she heads, 22 members of
Yesterday DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart had to testify before members of Congress in regards to a series of illegal sex parties that DEA agents participated
The federal government recently renewed its agreement with the University of Mississippi to grow medical marijuana for research and distribution to the four remaining medical
Marijuana activists have been saying for decades that the DEA needs to be de-funded. The agency has caused so much misery and ruined so many
Usually marijuana opponents go around asking people, ‘what about the children?’ Marijuana opponents have long warned that marijuana reform will lead to an epidemic of
Hemp once grew all over the United States. That of course was before the war on marijuana ramped up, and hemp was prohibited by the
The United States D.E.A. is a menace. They always have been, and they always will be until they are de-funded and shut down. The last
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently conducting research to see if marijuana should be downgraded from Schedule 1 to a lower,
Recently the United States House of Representatives voted to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in states that have legalized medical marijuana. It was an enormous
Recently the United States House of Representatives voted to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in states that have passed legislation to legalize them. The United
By Phillip Smith In a report released this week, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) reveal a decades-long pattern of the DEA
Doctors Working with Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Told to Give Up Their Position Or Give Up Their License Will the Tactic Extend to Other States? Less than
Medical cannabis laws, strongly supported by a vast majority of Americans, have spread across the nation with 22 states plus Washington, D.C., enacting some type
By Phillip Smith Kentucky agricultural officials told the Associated Press Thursday evening that the DEA had approved a permit allowing the state to import a 250-lb shipment
Courtesy of The Joint Blog Over 250 pounds of hemp seeds will be delivered tomorrow to Kentucky’s Agriculture Department by the DEA, which confiscated the seeds as
By Brandon Isaak In recent talks with Attorney General Eric Holder, DEA Chief Michele Leonhart was encouraged to tone down the Drug War propaganda she
