Marijuana Prohibition

A retired Judge makes a great argument about why we should end the prohibition on Marijuana

Pennsylvania to drug test welfare recipients

State of Pennsylvania to drug test welfare recipients

Obama on Marijuana

In 2004 Obama stated Marijuana laws should be reviewed and decriminalizing marijuana was a good idea. But he said more recently in a town hall meeting he was not interested in legalizing and taxing marijuana. We'll see where this debate goes as Barney Frank and Ron Paul have introduced legislation to end the federal prohibition on Marijuana.

One Trillion Dollar Drug War

The US has spent $1,000,000,000 on law enforcement fighting the drug war the last 40 years and to what effect? Narcotics still flow across the border and into every US city. E.D. Kain argues that we should give the drug war back to the states.

Medical Marijuana

The issue of Medical Marijuana is a slam dunk. There is no reason that a drug that has proven benefit shouldn't be prescribed to patients by their physicians. It is ludicrous to talk about the dangers of marijuana and the potential for abuse while doctors are capable of prescribing opiates (that derive from the same plant as heroin). Why is it that doctors can't prescribe a pain killer with little potential for addiction (marijuana) when they can prescribe several pain killers (morphine, codeine, oxycodon, oxycontin, etc) that have a moderate to high risk for addiction?

Mexico US Border: Drug War

Corruption grows at the border as Mexican Cartels increasingly target border officials and customs agents to bribe.
As violence continues to flare in Mexico, 116 bodies were found in a Mexican state that borders the US