By Jamie Peck / The Guardian Once upon a time, the 1936 film ‘Reefer Madness’ attempted to spread sensationalistic messages about marijuana to youths across the land. Just one toke,…
By Mike Ludwig — President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage after being introduced by Sen. Jeff Sessions during a campaign event at the Xfinity Arena in Everett, Washington, on August…
Dr. Ron Daniels, National Coordinator for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century’s Drug Policy Reform Initiative (IBWDPI) announced today that world renowned Actor, Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist Danny…
By Tony Newman / AlterNet Photo Credit: Debby Wong / Shutterstock.com For years hip-hop artists have rapped about drug use, the drug trade and the drug war. And now, we are seeing…
By Charlene Muhammad (Contributing Writer) Dr. Ron Daniels Reform drug laws, by decriminalizing, legalizing, and regulating marijuana, Dr. Ron Daniels, veteran social and political activist, advocated during an intimate lunch…
By Tom James New laws on marijuana were supposed to boost tax revenues and free up cops to go after “real” criminals. But underground sales—and arrests—are still thriving. It’s just…
By Hilary Hanson, Associated Press — An eye-opening remark from a former aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States’ war…
By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Beginning in 2012, four states and the District of Columbia have voted to legalize marijuana. By this time next year, that number could well double,…
The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) Rolls Out a Reparations Plan at the 2015 Congressional Black Caucus Conference. Preamble: No amount of material resources or monetary compensation can ever be sufficient restitution for the spiritual, mental, cultural and physical damages inflicted on Africans by centuries of the MAAFA, the holocaust of enslavement and the institution of chattel slavery…
The island nation most closely associated with marijuana in the popular mind is about to decriminalize it.