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
Legislators passed three amendments today to prohibit the DEA and U.S. Department of Justice from undermining state marijuana laws, as part of the U.S. House
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
Remember last year when the United States Congress passed a bill that de-funded medical marijuana raids in states where medical marijuana is legal? And remember
Working with Students for Sensible Drug Policy and writing for the Weed Blog, I am constantly surrounded by legalization activists. My Twitter feed, my Facebook
The Obama Administration has been a mixed bag when it comes to marijuana policy. On one hand, the Obama Administration has dropped the ball on
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
Several news reports have circulated suggesting that Michele Leonhart, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), is resigning. Leonhart has been criticized by medical cannabis
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 Chief Michele Leonhart testified in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in regards to DEA agents participating in sex parties in
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
Late last month a report came out from the Justice Department which detailed some very disturbing behavior by DEA agents while working in Columbia. Apparently
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
Many activists have pointed out over the years that the war on drugs is a war on minorities. That’s why black people are almost four
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
During Sunday night’s broadcast of the National Football League games a bombshell was dropped: the DEA is investigating doctors who provide professional football players with
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 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
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