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Secretary of State Clinton: “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade”
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US must take part of the blame for drug-related violence in Mexico. Speaking as she arrived in Mexico, she said America’s appetite for drugs and its inability to stop arms crossing the border were helping fuel the violence. Speaking to reporters accompanying her to Mexico City, Mrs [...]
Obama spokesman Gibbs: Marijuana Legalization is “not the right plan for America”
While an early AP wire story sported the headline “Obama says he opposes legalizing marijuana,” it should be noted that the president specifically only dismissed the notion that the “cash crop” would significantly boost the economy. However, later on Thursday afternoon during the White House press briefing after multiple reporters asked marijuana-related questions, Obama Administration [...]
BREAKING: Drug Agents Raid SF Medical Marijuana Clinic
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — Federal drug agents raided a medical marijuana facility in San Francisco Wednesday night. The raid occurred at Emmalyn’s California Cannabis Clinic at 1597 Howard Street. DEA spokeswoman Casey McEnry told CBS 5 the documents regarding the raid are sealed, so the DEA was not able to give many details. “The [...]
Obama ‘Open For Questions’ About The Economy — Ask Him To Support Taxing And Regulating Marijuana
WhiteHouse.gov is once again asking the public to pose questions directly to President Obama via its ‘Open For Questions‘ service. The topic of this week’s forum is the national economy, and not surprisingly, many of you have already put forward questions to the President regarding the taxation and regulation of cannabis. For example, the most [...]
Former Drug Czar Walters: “medical marijuana is an utter fraud” and “dispensaries of California fund the mafias of Mexico”
When the US taxpayers no longer fund your demonizing of the sick, disabled, dying, and sense-threatened people who use medical marijuana, what do you do? If you’re former drug czar John “Marijuana Unicorns” Walters, you get yourself a cushy job at the Hudson Institute, a think tank founded by Herman Kahn. Kahn’s work was part [...]
Obama Administration Likely To Review UMass Scientist’s Bid To Grow Marijuana
Days before President Bush left office in January, his administration fired a parting shot at Professor Lyle Craker’s eight-year quest to cultivate marijuana for medical research by abruptly denying him a federal license despite a nearly two-year old Drug Enforcement Administration law judge’s recommendation that he receive one. But the new administration led by President [...]
Obama’s next pick for Surgeon General is …?
I hear it’s going to be John Dean. Wait … Former Governor Howard Dean says he is not interested in becoming Surgeon General. via – WCAX News “Dean Not Interested in Surgeon General Post” Alright. How about Oregon’s former governor and resident health care guru John Kitzhaber via – Portland Progressive Examiner “John Kitzhaber: next [...]
Los Angeles US Attorney memo to halt raids is revoked
We reported on US Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement regarding the Obama Administration’s policy on medical marijuana providers in states with medical marijuana programs. The Attorney General said, ”What the president said during (the) campaign . . . is now American policy,” referring to then candidate-Obama’s statement last April. When asked about medical marijuana on a [...]
Medical Marijuana and the Pharmaceutical Industry
The pharmaceutical companies fear seeing medical marijuana advance as a natural effective medicine as they know its increasing legality threatens to potentially devastate their treasured “bottom line”, says Medical Marijuana Expert Dr. Phillip Leveque, who also writes for Salem-News.com. Situations and attitudes change and progress in this world, and the Drug Enforcement Agency, still insistent [...]
Obama administration selects Kerlikowske as Drug Czar
It’s official now: WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration has offered the position of “drug czar” to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Thursday. Kerlikowske has accepted the nomination for the cabinet-level post, formally known as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the official said. His [...]