Open Letter to DEA Chief: It’s Not Time to Resign – Yet – of Marijuana Remarks
When I heard you say recently that you thought medical marijuana was a “joke,” I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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Pressure Mounts for Resignation of DEA Chief After Comments About Marijuana
The pressure is mounting for President Obama to fire the head of the DEA after his remarks dismissing medical marijuana as a “joke.”
Congressman Calls for Resignation of DEA Chief Over Marijuana Remarks
Rep. Early Blumenauer called for the resignation Wednesday of the acting DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg for saying it’s a “joke” to suggest that marijuana has medicinal benefits.
Marijuana Use and Disorders Double
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to a recent medical study by a Columbia University epidemiologist published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry and in Medscape Medical News. Dr. Deborah Hasin reported…
Parker: Marijuana Use and Disorders Double
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 Marijuana use has doubled in the last decade, and with that has come a doubling in the use disorders associated with it, according to…
Bernie Sanders to Call for Marijuana Being Removed from DEA’s Schedule of Controlled Substances
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Democratic candidate for president Bernie Sanders plans to call for marijuana being removed from the DEA’s schedule of controlled substances in an effort to legalize pot, the Washington Post reports. Such a move would give states more control over marijuana. In some states, recreational marijuana is legal. In others, medicinal marijuana…
Native Americans: DEA Seized Industrial Hemp from Sovereign Tribal Land in Wisconsin
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA encroached on the sovereign land of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and destroyed a large crop of industrial hemp, Native Americans said. But the Associated Press report that federal authorities maintain the crop was illegal marijuana, some of which was being tended by non-tribal members. In May, the…
Federal Court Blasts DEA’s Interpretation of Recent Medical Marijuana Bill
A federal court in California criticized the DEA’s interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill in a ruling that could compromise federal prosecutions of marijuana cases.