Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA has substantially reduced the amount of marijuana that it destroys a year, eradicating fewer plants in the past two years combined than it did in 2010. The Huffington Post reports that the DEA destroyed about 8.3 million plants, compared to more than 10 million destroyed in both 2009 and 2010….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI won’t conduct nationwide background checks on people applying to operate a legal marijuana business in Washington state in stark contrast to the handling of applicants in Colorado, the Associated Press reports. The FBI’s refusal to conduct the checks surprised officials in Washington because the federal agency does similar background checks…
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…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com As the war of words heats up on the trend toward legalization of marijuana, two medical societies have issued their positions on the subject, particularly as it relates to the effect of the drug on teen agers. As reported earlier, some medical studies have shown negative neurological effects of regular marijuana…
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 As the war of words heats up on the trend toward legalization of marijuana, two medical societies have issued their positions on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although the DEA has insisted that marijuana is one of the “most dangerous” drugs available, the agency’s own drug policy contradicts that. The Huffington Post reports that DEA applicants are prohibited from working for the agency if they have used narcotics or dangerous drugs in the past. There’s one exception – marijuana. It’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paul Schmidt spent most of his career hunting down drug dealers. Now the retired DEA agent – the former top drug enforcer in Oregon – is holding seminars to advise medical marijuana dispensaries on the laws, CNBC reports. DEA Agent Patrick Moen recently gave up his badge to work for a venture-based…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com One of the most successful of the marijuana legalization lobbying organizations, the Marijuana Policy Project(MPP) announced its 2014 strategic plan and expects a “huge” year in passing state medical marijuana and legalization laws, as well as action in Congress to block drug enforcement activity. Twenty years ago marijuana was illegal in…
