Colorado’s now years-long experiment with legal medical and recreational cannabis markets has been mostly positive and fascinating, and yet the federal government has been slow to rethink its decades-long prohibitionist position.
Just don’t expect to fill a marijuana brownie prescription at your local drug store any time soon.
The DEA pledged in April it would review marijuana’s classification so that it could be researched for possible medicinal benefits.
The new head of the DEA says marijuana is “probably not” as dangerous as heroin, a position that was in contrast to his predecessor.
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The evidence continues to mount of the dangerous health risks of today’s potent forms of marijuana, especially to segments of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As marijuana legalization shifts in public opinion, state laws and within the Obama administration, the DEA is pledging to fight even harder, said DEA Chief Michele Leonhart Wednesday. The Huffington Post reports that Leonhart, speaking during testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee, maintains voters were duped into approving marijuana legalization in Washington…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a simple question: Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol? Yet DEA Deputy Director Thomas Harrigan wouldn’t provide an answer during a House oversight committee hearing. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN, asked because DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart insisted in January that pot is more dangerous than alcohol. “Marijuana is a Schedule I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama said smoking marijuana is no worse than drinking alcohol. “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of…
