T-Mobile Blocks Texting Services for WeedMaps.Com, a California Medical Marijuana Dispensary. T-Mobile Gets Sued in NY Federal Court.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is pushing a bill that aims to put yet more people in jail for using marijuana, even hoping to create a crime for “conspiracy to possess” marijuana that could put people in jail for planning to fly to Amsterdam with their friends to smoke pot.

That’s bad enough, and luckily Nancy Pelosi pulled the bill off the House’s fast track. But Lamar Smith continues his war on marijuana, hilariously suggesting on Fox News that Barack Obama is “encouraging the use of marijuana.”

But Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML, took to the pages of The Hill newspaper to give a reality check to Lamar Smith’s lies.

I just wanted to share this wonderful picture and brief story I received from one of our Just Say Now supporters today. From Lynda in PA: Here’s a photo taken yesterday at the Philadelphia Zoo. After I walked through the entrance gate, I heard a voice calling, "Miss, miss, does that shirt say what I [...]

Office of National Drug Control Policy director Gil Kerlikowske is having difficulty facing other more plausible explanations for why teenage marijuana use might have increased. It’s easier to blame medical marijuana instead.

Happy Friday! Here’s a blast from the past: an anti-drug music video featuring New Edition, LaToya Jackson, (a very young) Whitney Houston, Nancy Reagan, David Hasselhoff, and more!

SD Coalition for Compassion and SDSU SSDP Joined forces to raise awareness in Brookings, South Dakota.

Do the former DEA Administrators defend the federal marijuana prohibition with evidence that marijuana’s harms to users are so great that users must be denied the liberty to take the minimal risks attendant to its use? No, they cite an annual “strategy document” that has historically been an instrument of political propaganda, and was never taken seriously a genuine policy or planning document for addressing public safety or public health problems.

At the national conference of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) here at the Governor Hotel, in Portland Oregon, our own Michael Whitney is on a panel this morning to talk about the marijuana legalization campaign.

Senior economic adviser to Barbara Boxer Marcus Stanley was arrested Tuesday entering the Hart Senate Office Building with a “substance that tested positive for marijuana,” apparently jumping the gun on the possible passage this November of Proposition 19 despite his boss’s opposition to the measure.

Legalize Marijuana to Stop the Drug Cartels