What's New In Drug Policy Reform

What's New

In Drug Policy Reform

Our Friend Jerry Sisson's Story

March 09, 2006

Federal Marijuana Monopoly Challenged

December 15, 2005

Marijuana Laws Need To Go Up in Smoke

November 15, 2005

Denver Is First City To Legalize Pot

November 3, 2005

Transcript: Etheridge on Medicinal Marijuana

October 16, 2005

Stone Phillips, Anchor

Dateline NBC

Transcript: But there’s one part of her story
she has never talked about publicly until now:

A controversial choice she made to help with
the harsh side effects of chemo.

The Miron Report

Taxing And Regulating Cannabis Could Yield
$14 Billion In Annual Savings And Revenue, Study Says

June 2, 2005 - Boston, MA, USA

Television talk show host Montel Williams
displays a can of medicinal marijuana on the steps
of the Canon House Office Building
in Washington, May 4, 2005.

Medical Marijuana Advocates Implore Congress

Talk Show Host Pleads Medical Pot Case

Medical Marijuana Debate Heats Up

Angel Raich vs. John Ashcroft

A pending U.S. Supreme Court decision
on medical marijuana patients and their caregivers
could have far-ranging consequences
for cannabis activists slapped with
federal drug charges and those wishing
to limit the power of the federal government.

Marijuana is the Antidote

An End To Marijuana Prohibition

July 2004

The Drive To Legalize Heats Up

Ethan Nadelmann - National Review

An End To Marijuana Prohibition in pdf

CNNfn: Transcript: June 30th, 2004

Supreme Court Takes On Medical Marijuana

Making Pot Legal Does Not Boost Use

Cannabis in Amsterdam & San Francisco

May 4th, 2004

Transcript: Hearing On Medical Marijuana

House of Representatives

Thursday, April 1, 2004

House Committee on Government Reform
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy
and Human Resources Holds a Hearing
on Marijuana Medicine

Ecstasy Agonistes

The Chronicle of Higher Learning

From the issue dated February 27, 2004

A retracted study on a controversial substance
raises questions about the reliability
of government-sponsored research on drugs

The Classification of Cannabis in PDF

January 29, 2004 - U.K.

Advisory Council on The Misuse of Drugs:

The Classification of Cannabis
Under The Misuse of Drug Act 1971

Raich v. Ashcroft in PDF

December 16, 2003

Prosecuting sick people under federal law
for using medical marijuana
on a doctor's advice is unconstitutional,
if users grow the drug themselves or obtain it free,
the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled.

A Victory for Medical Marijuana

Court Plants Red Cross in the War on Marijuana

October 14, 2003

Transcripts: Online News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Top Court Hands Victory To Backers of Medical Pot

September 16, 2003

D.C. Bud

John Walters, the White House “drug czar,”
came to Seattle backed by a platoon
of bodyguards—and unwittingly admitted
that the feds’ 60 Years War on marijuana
didn’t have the grip on the American public
that it once did.

Updated

February 5th, 2003

Ed Rosenthal's Medicinal Cannabis Trial

A federal jury in San Francisco found Ed Rosenthal,
one of the nation's most prominent marijuana advocates,
guilty Friday of felony conspiracy
and cultivation charges -- a triumph
for federal prosecutors seeking
to override California's endorsement
of pot as medicine.

General Ashcroft Wants You!
By Mark Fiore

February 5th, 2003

San Diego OKs Medical Use of Marijuana

NORML

January 15th 2003

Your Government Is Lying
To You (Again) About Marijuana

A Refutation of the Drug Czar's
"Open Letter to America's Prosecutors"

By The National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Truth Campaign in PDF Format

Truth Campaign in HTML

January 2003

GAO Report - DARE

Cannabis News Chat Room

November 20th, 2002

A Message From The Judge -- Is Ashcroft Listening?

November 17th, 2002

Drug Reformers Are Regrouping

November 19, 2002

The Myth of Potent Pot
By Daniel Forbes

November 1st, 2002

What U.S. Papers Say About Medical Pot
Let The Feds Quit Meddling on Pot
Court Tells Feds To Back Off

Conant vs. Walters & Judge Kozinski's Opinion

Conant vs. Walters - PDF Format

The New Politics of Pot
Is Pot Good for You?
Medical Marijuana: A History

TIME Magazine -- The Politics of Pot

Doonesbury on Medical Marijuana Raids

Pictures From WAMM Protest

Political Cartoon By Mark Fiore

WAMM Raided on September 5, 2002

ABC Transcripts: War On Drugs, A War On Ourselves
MSNBC Transcripts: Phil Donahue - July 29, 2002
MSNBC Transcripts: Phil Donahue - July 18, 2002

San Francisco Puts Growing
Marijuana on Ballot

July 25, 2002

CNN Transcripts: Kevin Zeese & Connor

Crossfire Transcripts: Keith Stroup & Hutchinson

LA Weekly
By Ellen Forney
July 26 - August 1, 2002

Smoke Pot, Stay Out of Jail - Political Cartoon

June 20th, 2002

Higher Immorality?
For Some Religious Groups,
Drug Laws Do More Harm
Than Drugs Themselves

ABCNews.com

Department of Justice
Medical Marijuana Protest
Updated June 7th 2002

Protesters Ask DEA To Change Drug Law
Protesters Target DEA Offices Over Medical Pot
200 Join Santa Rosa Protest of Federal Pot Laws
Medical-Pot Backers Protest To Feds
Protestors Decry Medical Marijuana Raids
Why I Put Myself At Risk for Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana Backers Stage Protests Across US
Pot Pioneer

California-based medical marijuana activists
have called for a national day of nonviolent
"direct action to push back the DEA"
at DEA offices nationwide
on Thursday, June 6th, 2002

Patients Push Back After DEA Raids in Santa Rosa
Medical Marijuana War Heats Up

June 1, 2002

County Adopts Guidelines for Medicinal Pot

May 14, 2002

CNN Cross Fire Transcripts

Do Drug Ads Really Work?

May 10, 2002

CNN Transcripts

Millionaire Marijuana March

May 2, 2002

CNN Transcripts

William Bennett: Today's Pot is More Dangerous

April 21, 2002

Revealed: Britain's Drug Habit

Drugs Uncovered: Observer Special Supplement

April 18, 2002

San Francisco D.A. Terence Hallinan speaks
to the National Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws at the Crowne Plaza Union Hotel

Marijuana Advocates Cheer On Hallinan

April 10, 2002

NORML's 2002 Ad Campaign

Cannabis News Articles - NORML

April 10, 2002

DEA Chief, Activist's Clash Over Drug Policy

February 12, 2002

DEA Raids Medical Marijuana Club

September 3, 2001

Tom & Rollie Memorial Page

Grover T. “Tom” Crosslin’s standoff
came to a deadly end Monday.
The 47-year-old owner
of Rainbow Farm Campground
was fatally shot
by an FBI agent
about 4:40 p.m. EDT Monday.

Cannabis.com

The MariHemp Network

Andy Garrett's Cannabis Museum Pictures

Ohio Patient.net

Cannabis MD

Musicians for Medical Marijuana

Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition -NORML

Mass CANN

A State Affiliate of the National Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Marijuana Reform Party of New York

Medical Marijuana in New York,
Outlook for 2002

July 4, 2001

LA Weekly Independence Day

Drug War Series

Judge James Gray

Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed
And What We Can Do About It

June 24, 2001

About The Author

Cited on numerous occasions for his work in the areas
of both social reform and civic philanthropy,
Judge James P. Gray currently presides over
the civil trial calendar for the
Superior Court of Orange County.

Cannabis News Highlights

Doonesbury Political Cartoons

IMMY's NORML Conference Photos 2001

The Marijuana Rescheduling Petition

Drug Science

By Jon Gettman

Why is marijuana illegal?

The government claims that scientific evidence

justifies marijuana prohibition.

But does it?.

Drug War Facts

Cannabis Myths Exposed