California’s Marijuana Lawsuits Can Limit Federal Power

While the Obama administration’s sudden escalation of war on marijuana has caused nothing but hardship on patients and thousands of lost jobs, it may ultimately become the catalyst for the final legal dismissal of federal cannabis prohibition. Since 2005 and Raich v Gonzales,...

Obama Tries to Shift the Blame for Attack on CA Marijuana

In the wake of the major federal crackdown on California medical marijuana, most of the focus has been on the injustice of the action and the various components of the attacks; however, an interesting dual narrative has been developing over the issue of who is to blame. This is...

California’s Government Begins Reacting to Obama’s Attack

There are finally some members of California’s government who are stepping up and demanding some measure of restraint from the federal government after it began a campaign of vicious attacks on medical marijuana. While this is step in the right direction, it is a long way from...

Obama is Using the War on Drugs to Weaken the 1st Amendment

The Obama administration’s unexpected attack on medical marijuana continues unabated, now aiming to curtail basic First Amendment freedoms in the name of the War on Drugs. This is not about stopping some sort of dangerous action that may victimize innocents where the government...

Obama May Lose in 2012 for Attacking California Marijuana

President Obama may have just made one of the biggest electoral mistakes in recent memory; a mistake hinged upon the cynical dismissal of a mass of people and the trampling of their democratic rights. As we reported yesterday, California’s U.S. attorneys have sent out letters...