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Joseph Summerill, director of the Summerill Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.- based law enforcement think tank and general counsel for the Major County Sheriffs’ Association, made my job easy by using all five prohibitionist lies in one op-ed piece published today in the Washington Examiner entitled, "Facts on medical marijuana are stubborn things, too".

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DeAngelo seems to be saying here that if only we’d stayed with the status quo, not tried to legalize for all with Prop 19 and not tried to industrialize medical production, the feds never would have initiated this crackdown. DeAngelo must be smoking a new strain of pot called "Kettle Black".

How far will some people go to protect our precious children from the scourge of drugs that don’t have bar codes? As reported by Students for Sensible Drug Policy, how about terrorizing them with thoughts that their school is about to become the next Columbine massacre so you can clear the halls for a drug dog sweep?

Fontana, California’s police chief has taken a clue from US attorneys and has started a campaign to rid his town of medical marijuana dispensaries.

Mexican Government has allowed domestic marijuana and opium production to climb to record levels. Heroin seizures on the border have tripled since 2006.

Two people are facing serious drug charges after they have been accused of openly selling marijuana pipes and bongs at a southwestern Pennsylvania county fair. A drug task force detective accuses thirty-three-year-old Stephen Krug and 24-year-old Maria Zelik, both from Freedom, PA, of selling the drug paraphernalia out in the open. County task force Detective [Read on

Czech Republic is reviewing a medical marijuana law that would legalize growing and using medical marijuana

The Second Amendment Rights of medical marijuana patients have come into focus lately.  When Oregonian Cynthia Willis was denied a renewal for her concealed weapons permit three years ago, the medical marijuana community took notice.  That case was decided in Ms. Willis’s favor, but the local sheriff , Mike Winter, wants to take it to [Read on .

The President of Colombia said he would support the global legalization of marijuana, but that his country could not be the one to lead the way. In a Sunday interview, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos called for the global legalization of marijuana, but said his country could not be the one to lead the way.

Let me walk you through the logical fallacy here, HamNo. First off, RAND never asserted that "weed stores bring down crime", they asserted that closing weed stores increased crime. No mention was made of the crime levels before the dispensaries opened.

So, we’re to assume here it was the K2 that scarred the boys lungs and not the freakin’ fumes from the melting plastic of a PEZ dispenser?!?

This weekend is Halloween, which means it is time for law enforcement to start scaring the hell out of parents about the wicked evil potheads lurking in their neighborhoods, waiting to dose their kids with pot candies!

If the plan passes, people caught in Chicago with 10 grams or less of marijuana would get a $200 ticket and up to 10 hours of community service, instead of facing a misdemeanor charge punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $1,500 fine.

Cops have been trying to say that these Fort Collins dispensaries are increasing the black market trade and that’s why voters need Question 300′s opportunity to shut down all dispensaries. But if the black market (read: not medical) use went up, how is it you’re not arresting any more of them than before the dispensaries existed?

Because marijuana remains illegal for all uses under federal law, municipalities and states have struggled with how to regulate it for medical use. The federal prosecutors in California have now insisted that cities and counties cannot do anything that actively allows marijuana use, such as permitting dispensaries. A recent California appellate court ruling reached the same conclusion, but other appellate courts in the state have instead ruled that federal law does not trump state medical marijuana laws.