Lies About Marijuana

They say truth is the first casualty in war, and so it goes with marijuana.  The United States government has been waging a shooting war against pot for at least 42 years – that’s when the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was launched.  Because we have...

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Weed Case

Today the Supreme Court announced it would not rule on Colorado’s marijuana legalization laws.   The Court ruled it would not hear the case and thus, Nebraska’s and Okalahoma’s forays into fair weather federalism are over for the moment. They had wanted the Supreme...

Chris Christie needs a history lesson

Last week at a campaign event in Iowa, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went back and forth with a nurse who is a proponent of legalizing the use of marijuana as medicine.   Shelly Van Winkle asked Christie how he would balance states’ rights to legalize medicinal...