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Cadets angry over a drug search rioted for more than an hour last week, throwing fireworks and garbage from their barracks in an uproar one officer described as "shameful." Hundreds of cadets were hollering obscenities out of their windows and some were throwing objects," in what the...

The Food and Drug Administration, which recently quixotically asserted that cannabis has no medical utility, has at the same time approved advanced clinical trials for a marijuana-derived drug called Sativex, a liquid preparation of two of the most therapeutically useful components of cannabis...

In a courtesy filing in federal court this May Day, Northern Lights Church v. Gonzales made its quiet debut. With this action, Reverend Thunder Rector joined other church members in an injunction seeking relief from the federal government for the violation of their rights under the United...

Police and business owners from Mexico's beaches to border cities worried Sunday that a measure passed to decriminalize possession of Marijuana and other drugs could attract droves of tourists solely looking to get high. Mexican and U.S. officials insist that the bill eliminates legal hurdles to...

Hundreds of people called University of Colorado police Friday to name people photographed at last week's "4/20" marijuana smoke-out on Farrand Field. Police posted 150 pictures online Thursday of people lighting up, exhaling and even streaking at the annual event. For each positive...

San Pablo could become the latest East Bay city to punt and more than once on the issue of medical marijuana. Tonight the City Council is expected to vote on an emergency ordinance that would extend for a second year a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries, popularly known as cannabis...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal's ringing endorsement of the right of terminal patients' to sue FDA for access to potentially lifesaving investigational drugs is a long-overdue triumph for Americans right to medicine .(Abigail Alliance v Eschenbach) text of decision at The ruling is especially...

Terminally ill patients seeking access to experimental, unapproved drugs won a legal reprieve Tuesday in a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel reinstated a lawsuit filed on behalf of the patients and returned the case to district court, which had dismissed the case in 2004. The Abigail...

Some scientists and patients scoff at a recent FDA announcement that smoking marijuana has no medical benefits. As assistant district attorney in San Francisco, Keith Vines prosecuted one of the largest illicit drug busts the city had ever seen. Then he came down with AIDS wasting syndrome and...

One of the San Fernando Valley's newest medical marijuana dispensaries sits in a black stucco building, adjacent to the Xposed full nude club. Racy business cards for the club and next-door bar, The Wet Spot, are stationed throughout the inside of Collective Caregivers pharmacy,which opened in...

The Temecula City Council sidestepped California Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act, at last Tuesday's meeting and voted unanimously to amend the city's municipal code and prohibit the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. Despite an...

Two days before the 9/11 attacks that led to war in the name of democracy, two Michigan men were shot to death for simply trying to exercise the very rights their country was now supposedly fighting for. On a remote farm that they owned in southwest Michigan, Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm created...

The jailing of a Liverpool cannabis cafe owner should serve as a warning to others, police said today. Officers welcomed the 12-month term handed to Gary Youds who had opened an Amsterdam-style cafe in Holt Road, Kensington, last year. Superintendent Chris Armitt of Merseyside police said: "Mr...

It will be tomorrow or more likely next week before Winlaw's Paddy Roberts learns the fate of his case against B.C. marijuana king Marc Emery. A Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision on the local man's attempts to keep the federal attorney general out of the high profile case, which is...

Current federal laws prevent anyone with a drug conviction even a nonviolent one from receiving financial aid for college. With Americas rising drug problem, the logic behind the law is obvious, deter young people from engaging in drug activities by threatening their chance to go to college...