Sacred Substances

...and our Right to Use Them
What's more absurd than outlawing [DIVINE] Mother Nature?; Controlled Substances Act; Marijuana vs. Crystal Meth - Funny but true video, 3/6/10; Dobby the dog tripping on cane toads, 2/15/11; Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable, 6/1/11; Gardens of the Ancients catalog; A Library Of Every Drug That Could Ever Exist, 4/24/13
Sacred Substances: Erowid Psychoactive Vaults; entactogene; Persephone's Quest - Entheogens & the Origins of Religion^; Recreational Drug Manufacture^; Antero Alli: Angel Tech a Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection^; Lindsey M. Banco: Psychedelic Trips^; Robert Brent: Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments^; Brown & Novick: Mavericks of the Mind^; Krystle Cole: Trip Guide^; Jim DeKorne: Psychedelic Shamanism^; Ira Einhorn: Sociology of the Now^; Peter Furst: Hallucinogens & Culture^; Grinspoon & Bakalar: Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered^; Psychedelic Reflections^; Jon Hanna: Psychedelic Resource List^; J.A. Hobson: Dream Drugstore^; Michael S. Hoffman: Entheogen Theory of Religion & Ego Death^; Margaret Hyde: Mind Drugs^; Masters & Houston: Varieties of Psychedelic Experience^; Terence McKenna: Food of the Gods^; True Hallucinations^; Tryptamin Hallucinogens and Consciousness^; Richard Alan Miller:Magical and Ritual Use of Herbs^; Richard Lawrence Miller: Encyclopedia of Addictive Drugs^; William Moxley: Center of the Universe^; J.Ott: Pharmcotheon^; Dale Pendell: Plant Powers^; Richard Evans Schultes: Golden Guide Hallucinogenic Plants^; Plants of the Gods; Shulgin: Laboratory Notebook^; PIHKAL - A Chemical Love Story^; TIHKAL: A Continuation^; Dirty Pictures; Getting the Most from Psychedelics, 4/1/8; Robert Silverberg: Drug Themes in Science Fiction^; Michael Valentine Smith: Psychedelic Chemistry^; Peter Stafford: Psychedelics Encyclopedia^; Richard Stratton: Altered States of America^; D.M. Turner: Essential Psychedelic Guide^
2C-I 'Smiles': Latest Designer Drug Called 'Smiles' Linked to Teen Deaths, 9/21/12

Absinthe: wikipedia; Aleister Crowley: Green Goddess

Amanita: Secrets of the Templars - Amanita Muscaria & the Cross, 10/26/8; Magic Mushrooms & Reindeer, 1/26/9; again; Ambrosia Society John Allegro: Sacred Mushroom and the Cross^; Sacred Mushroom & the Cross, 1/30/10^; James Arthur: Mushrooms & Mankind^; Donald E. Teeter: Amanita Muscaria - Herb of Immortality^; David York: Christ and the Sacred Mushroom^

Ayahuasca: Graham Hancock: Giving up the Green Bitch: Reflections on Cannabis, Ayahuasca and the mystery of plant teachers; Ayahuasca 4:1 Powdered Extract; Help Free A Major Indigenous Leader Imprisoned in the U.S.; Health Canada orders doctor to stop using traditional Amazonian medicine to treat addicts, 11/14/11; Ancient traditions get new life, 11/3/12; DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland – A Professor Talks Neurotheology, 3/20/13; Ayahuasca and Cancer: One Man’s Experience, 5/17/13
Pablo Amaringo:Ayahuasca Visions^; Jim DeKorne:Ayahuasca Analogues^; Dennis McKenna: Ayahuasca^

Cannabis: Medical Marijuana; Graham Hancock: Giving up the Green Bitch: Reflections on Cannabis, Ayahuasca and the mystery of plant teachers; Cannabis International Foundation - A Resource For The Dietary And Medicinal Study And Use Of Cannabis; Hemp; Marijuana Conspiracy, 3/20/9; Frosty Woolridge: Marijuana Prohibition And Public Safety; Quarter Of All US Presidents Used Cannabis; Obama's New Medical Marijuana Policy Not a Step Forward for Liberty, 10/20/9; On the quiet, the US is legalising marijuana, 11/1/9; Portland Opens First Medical Marijuana Cafe, 11/15/9; Reefer Madness or Cure-all?, 12/20/9; California Marijuana Vote Has Outlaw Growers Worried, 3/25/10; No More Possession Prosecutions in Seattle, New City Attorney Says; Successful Pot Smokers: Let’s Make a List; Cannabis Cures Cancer - "Run From The Cure" The Rick Simpson Story; Pot advocates fear bill could mandate ‘enhanced penalties’ for medical edibles, 7/29/10; Mainstream Marijuana: Behind Pot's Boom in California, 8/9/10; Cannabis Culture; Return of Reefer Madness, 8/22/10; California Pot Legalization ‘Could End Mexican Drug War’, 9/9/10; Speak no evil: DEA, DOJ stay mum on medical marijuana raids, 9/14/10; Obama drug-policy adviser says the administration opposes marijuana legalization and isn’t big on medical marijuana, 9/24/10; Dixie Elixirs – the patient’s choice for alternative MMJ treatment; Pot Parody, 10/25/10; Pot Prohibition Is the Cornerstone of a Police State, 11/4/10; Willie Nelson pot possession charge shows ludicrousness of marijuana prohibition, 11/28/10; 50 Famous Quotes on Marijuana, 11/28/10; Legalization 'looking inevitable,' spokesman says, 12/12/10; Missoula District Court: Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’, 12/19/10; Jury Refuses to Convict Anyone for Marijuana Possession!, 12/26/10; California dispensaries may soon carry marijuana soft drinks, 1/25/11; Pot Use May Mellow Out Men's Sexual Function, 2/14/11; Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity, 4/12/11; Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish, 4/26/11; 12 & 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police, 7/6/11; How Green Is Your Pot?, 7/13/11; Denied: DEA refuses to reclassify marijuana, claims it's as dangerous as heroin, 7/25/11; Miracle-Gro to sell special nutrient formulations for growing marijuana, 7/27/11; 125 yr. old woman claimed smoking pot every day was her secret to long life, 8/13/11; Does Marijuana Make You Stupid?, 8/17/11; Marijuana smoking better for lungs than cigarettes, 1/13/12; How Marijuana Impairs Memory, 3/1/12; Obama’s high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book, 5/25/12; Cannabis smokers show greater lung capacity and lower cancer levels than non-smokers, 5/27/12; All The Reasons Pot Is Good For You, 11/8/12; What Marijuana Does To Your Body And Mind, 11/11/12; Cannabis & Pineal Gland: Turn On the Third Eye, 1/14/13; Company hopes to bring 30 marijuana-dispensing machines to San Diego, 3/7/13; Cannabis and Graham Hancock, 3/28/13; Czech pharmacies begin selling medical marijuana, 4/2/13; Chemistry of Nitrous-Powered, Pot-Infused Liquor, 4/17/13; Meet Justin Hartfield, The Entrepreneur Who Wants To Be America's First Marijuana Industrialist, 4/20/13; Three Best Kinds Of Marijuana In The Country, 4/22/13
GMO Pot: Frankenpot – Marijuana gone GMO!, 6/27/11; GM marijuana booms in South America, growers reap ten times market value, 6/30/11
Joint Rolling Handbook^; George Andrews: Book of Grass^; Chris Eudaley: How To Be A Pot Star Like Me^; Adam Gottlieb: Art & Science Of Cooking With Cannabis^; Greg Green: Cannabis Grow Bible, 4th ed^; Jack Herer: Emperor Wears No Clothes^; Todd McCormick:How to Grow Medicinal Marijuana^; Ed Rosenthal:Marijuana Grower's Handbook; Michael Starks: Marijuana Chemistry^

Coca: Peru suspends US-funded coca eradication programme, 8/18/11

DMT: 5-Meo-DMT User's Guide^; Federal law: Every living American can be arrested right now for felony possession of drugs made in their own brains, 2/18/13; DMT, Ayahuasca, The Pineal Gland – A Professor Talks Neurotheology, 3/20/13; Quantum Tantra - DMT Extraction^; Shpongle; James Oroc: Tryptamine Palace; Rick Strassman: Contact Through the Veil^; DMT the Spirit Molecule^

Iboga: Lotsof & Wachtel: Ibogaine Treatment Manual^

Ketamine: INTERVIEW WITH A KETAMINE CHEMIST, 2/11; Club drug ketamine cures depression instantly: How?, 1/31/12
Karl Jansen: Ketamine, Dreams & Realites^; Moore and Alltounian: Journeys Into the Bright World^; Seth (Jane Roberts): Journeys to the bright side

Kratom: Is medicinal herb kratom a safe and effective alternative for treating pain, anxiety and depression?, 4/6/12

LSD: ALD-52, 5/17/7; Psychedelic Experience (original 1965 short film), 2/2/9; Dock Ellis & LSD No-No, 11/11/9; French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment, 3/11/10; Harvard Psychedelic Club: 1956 Footage Of Housewife's Acid Trip, 1/16/11; again; Psychedelic icon Owsley Stanley dies in Australia, 3/13/11; LSD 'helps alcoholics to give up drinking', 3/9/12; Why Doctors Can't Give You LSD (But Maybe They Should), 4/16/13
Blewett & Chwelos: Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of Lsd-25^; John Cashman: LSD Story^; Betty Grover Eisner: Remembrances of LSD Therapy Past, 2002^; Albert Hoffman:LSD - My Problem Child^; Michael Hollingshead: Man Who Turned On the World^; Lee & Shlain: Acid Dreams^; Stafford & Golightly: LSD - Problem-Solving Psychedelic^; Stanislav Grof: LSD Psychotherapy^; Ralph Metzner: LSD Symposium, 4/18/8; David Solomon: LSD - Consciousness Expanding Drug^; Jay Stevens:Storming Heaven^; Tendler & May: Brotherhood of Eternal Love^; Tom Wolfe:Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

MDMA: Julie Holland: Ecstasy: The Complete Guide^; No Brain Damage From Ecstasy, 2/20/11; Ecstasy of War, 11/28/12

Opium: Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'. Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium Eater; What our Children are Dying for in Afghanistan; Russell Brand's Beautifully-Written Blog Post About What It's Like To Do Heroin, 3/5/13; UN: Afghanistan’s opium cultivation to surge in 2013, 4/15/13

Peyote: Gottlieb: Psychoactive Cacti; Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop, 2/14/8

Psilocybin: Mountain Mushroom Farm; Mushroom Cultivator^; 'Magic mushrooms' create positive mental and physical health benefits that can last a year, 7/9/11; Psychedelic compounds in 'magic mushrooms' can permanently alter personality, 10/10/11; Magic mushrooms may aid cancer patients, 2/4/13; Governments block research on using magic mushrooms to treat depression, 4/10/13
Jochen Gartz: Magic Mushrooms Around the World^; F.C. Ghouled: Field Guide to the Psilocybin Mushroom^; Richard Alan Miller: Magickal Mushroom Handbook^; Oss & Oeric:Magic Mushroom Growers Guide^; Andrija Puharich: Sacred Mushroom Key to the Door of Eternity^; Shpongle:Around the World in a Tea Daze Tokyo Live; Paul Stamets:Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World^

Rapamycin: Easter Island drug improves learning and memory in mice of all ages, 7/12/12

Salvia Divinorum: Salvia Divinorum Research and Information Center^; Sacred weeds: Salvia divinorum, 4/20/7; All about Salvia Divinorum, 2/6/9; David Aardvark: Salvia Divinorum and Salvinorin A^; Terence McKenna: Lecture, 6/19/8; D.M. Turner: Salvinorin the Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum^

San Pedro Cactus: Cactus Drug, 3/10/8

Smart Drugs: Piracetam - is it the smartest of the smart drugs?, 3/20/12

Spiritual Use: Michael S. Hoffman: Entheogen Theory of Religion & Ego Death; Persephone's Quest - Entheogens and the Origins of Religion; Alan Watts: Joyous Cosmology; Muller-Ebeling, Ratsch & Storl: Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, & Forbidden Plants, 2003

Shamanism: Peru shaman murders investigated, 10/6/11
Carlos Castaneda: quotes; Works^; Active Side of Infinity^; Art of Dreaming^; words; Don Juan's Teachings (compilations); Fire From Within^; Journey to Ixtlan^; Magical Passes^; Power Of Silence^; Second Ring of Power^; Tales of Power; Teachings of Don Juan^; Letter About Castaneda From C. Scott Littleton to Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Michael Harner:Way of the Shaman^; Phil Hine:1 Walking Between the Worlds^; Hine: 2 Two Worlds & In Between^; Hine: 3 Touched by Fire^; Native American: Wisdom

CIA/ Drug Trade: CIA jet crashed with 4 tons of cocaine, 6/8/8; Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government, 4/27/11; Of course the CIA 'Manages' Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says, 7/28/12; Make $$$ Selling Drugs Documentary Staring 50 Cent & Eminem trailer, 8/1/12; Why the Drug Trade Is Violent, 3/30/13

What Sovereignty Is;   Prohibition: The Cornerstone of the Police State: Chemist's War; again, 2/22/10; Pot Prohibition Is the Cornerstone of a Police State, 11/4/10; Australia proposes ban on 1000s of plants including national flower, 2/22/11; This Is What Happens When You Ban Heroin, 8/11/11; What prohibition costs us, 10/6/11; Liquor Liberation in Washington State, 11/9/11; Retired police officer explains how big money lobbyists keep pot illegal, 2/13/12; Dutch judge upholds ban on shops selling pot to tourists, 4/27/12; 75 Year Anniversary of Marijuana Prohibition, 8/3/12; 8 Reasons To End Prohibition of All Drugs Immediately, 9/26/12; Wal-Mart fires brain cancer employee for using doctor-recommended medical marijuana; federal court affirms medical discrimination, 9/29/12; Obama Justice Department Set to Overrule any State that Legalizes Marijuana, 10/24/12; Former drug policy adviser ‘can’t imagine’ feds allowing marijuana legalization, 12/2/12; Drug Prohibition: Law Enforcement is the Problem, 1/7/13; Prohibition Caused the Greatness of Gatsby, 5/16/13

In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on whiskey. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas):
"If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being.
However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into Texas treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it.
This is my position, and as always, I refuse to compromise on matters of principle."

War on Drugs: Raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs, 8/15/5; A Bonanza for the Enemies of Freedom, 4/24/9; The True Villain; Drugs and the Constitution, 10/6/9; The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs, 12/23/9; US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs', 1/17/10; Obama grows the drug war, with enforcement a clear priority, 2/2/10; Last White Hope; Drug War is a Real War–on American Citizens, 5/5/10; US drug war has met none of its goals, 5/13/10; Repeal the War on Drugs, 7/28/10; How the US Government Created the ‘Drug Problem’ in the USA, 9/10/10; Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images, 10/14/10; Drug War’s Dubious Foundations, 2/3/11; Congressman targets federal funding for the war on drugs, 2/16/11; Why Cops Love the Drug War, 3/2/11; Drug War Business, Pt.1, 3/2/11; Pt.2, 3/3/11; Pt.3, 3/4/11; Legalization activists slam Obama’s renewed commitment to drug war, 3/4/11; Mexico’s biggest problem is the US government, 3/8/11; Tylenol and the War on Drugs, 3/21/11; Bureaucracies That Marijuana Feeds, 3/26/11; Why Banksters love Drug Gangsters; Cooking Meth: How Government Manufactured a Drug Epidemic, 4/5/11; DEA head: A thousand dead children means we're winning war on drugs, 4/16/11; Oklahoma lawmakers approve life sentence for cooking hashish, 4/26/11; Police State: Cops Pull You Over And Take Your Cash, 5/17/11; Supreme Court eviscerates 4th Amendment over marijuana smell, 5/17/11; Highway Robbery, 5/22/11; Global war on drugs 'has failed' say former leaders, 6/2/11; Call Off the Global Drug War, 6/16/11; Gilbert, Arizona Police Storm Home, Seize Two Ounces of Marijuana From Card-Holding Medical Pot Patient; No, Really, 6/16/11; Drug War's Einsatzgruppen, 6/27/11; again, 6/30/11; Elon James White: Just Say NO to the War On Drugs, 6/30/11; US spends billions every year prosecuting marijuana violations while economy tanks, 7/5/11; WAR on Drugs is OVER!, 7/21/11; U.S. Drug Policy Would Be Imposed Globally By New House Bill, 10/9/11; Dutch fear threat to liberalism in "soft drugs" curbs, 10/10/11; Obama's War On Weed: White House Launches Crackdown On Medical Marijuana, 10/11/11; Phoenix police raid medical-marijuana business, 10/12/11; Medical Pot Opponents Take Aim at the First Amendment, 10/13/11; Obama Starts a Civil War On Drugs, 10/13/11; War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People, 10/21/11; House Committee passes bill that criminalizes free speech, applies US 'drug war' policies across entire world, 10/21/11; Other Unconstitutional War, 10/26/11; Endless Evil: The Drug War’s Continuing Collateral Damage, 10/27/11; Pt.2, 11/2/11; Reefer Madness, 11/6/11; California's medical marijuana outlets threatened in government crackdown, 11/8/11; Losing Hearts and Minds in the Drug War, 11/9/11; Feds raid Washington state medical marijuana dispensaries, 11/15/11; Hospital refuses liver transplant for medical marijuana patient, 11/7/11; War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan, 11/16/11; Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior, 11/21/11; Ron Paul: War on drugs undermines civil liberties, 11/22/11; Medical Marijuana Industry Is Unnerved by U.S. Crackdown, 11/23/11; Another Glorious Drug War Victory, 11/23/11; Cops Raid Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, 11/23/11; War on drugs revealed as total hoax – US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan, 12/1/11; 10 Ways the War on Drugs is a Wild Success, 12/8/11; Feds covertly attack state-sanctioned medical marijuana, 12/28/11; Mother with no prior offenses sentenced to TWELVE YEARS in prison for $31 marijuana offense, 12/28/11; Snoop Dogg's marijuana drug bust highlights idiocy of the failed War on Drugs, 1/10/12; Richard Branson says It’s time to end the failed war on drugs, 1/23/12; Zombiefied Drug Trade, 2/2/12; Janet Napolitano Insists Drug War Not a Failure, 2/28/12; Pot Legalization Foe Getting Rich off the Drug War, 3/8/12; New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests, 3/30/12; New York National Guard fighting the war on drugs, 4/9/12; Obama cheers continued expansion of drug war, criminalization of plant-based medicine, 4/16/12; Larken Rose: Drug War: Huge Success, 4/30/12; Warping the Doors of Perception: The Drug War, 6/14/12; Global leaders: Drug war ‘the main reason’ for continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic, 6/25/12; Rocky’s Drug War, 7/6/12; U.S. cracks down on "world's largest" medical marijuana dispensary, 7/11/12; Mass. Gov. Patrick blasts ‘warehousing of non-violent drug offenders’, 7/31/12; Dutch pot smokers hope elections bring reversal on marijuana restrictions, 9/12/12; Failed War on Drugs: An Infographic, 9/21/12; Fiona Apple facing up to 10 years in jail over Texas marijuana bust, 9/21/12; U.S. Raids L.A. Marijuana Shops, 9/26/12; War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom, 10/5/12; Drug Evil, 10/8/12; War on Pot - A Raving Success!, 10/9/12; War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom, 10/11/12; Forty Years of Drug War Failure in a Single Chart, 10/14/12; War on Private Property, 10/18/12; Feds move to seize OR medical marijuana properties, 11/9/12; Felipe Calderón: Winning The Drug War Is "Impossible", 11/24/12; ‘Breaking the Taboo’: US presidents admit drug policies were wrong in new documentary, 12/2/12; 5 Senior Citizens Serving Life Without Parole for Pot, 12/23/12; Feds don't care about pot smokers; they just keep HEMP illegal in order to maintain the power, medicine, and fuel monopolies, 1/5/13; Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves The Drug War Is A Joke, 1/19/13; Marijuana dispensaries sue Long Beach police for illegal, unconstitutional actions to put them out of business, 2/19/13; U.S. prosecutors quit and side with cocaine traffickers to fight ‘wrong’ drug policy, 2/27/13
Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office (CNTPO): Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary, 11/22/11
DEA: Cables Portray Expanded Reach of Drug Agency, 12/25/10; Iran case shows growing national security role of Drug Enforcement Administration, 10/14/11; Medical marijuana legal efforts are being crushed by the DEA - who benefits?, 10/25/11; DEA Squads Extend Reach of Drug War, 11/6/11; Helping the DEA, 11/7/11; D.E.A. Agents Launder Cartels’ Drug Money, 12/5/11; DEA agents admit laundering drug money, then claim they were testing how it works, 12/7/11; DEA helped Colombian drug trafficker launder cash, new report reveals, 1/9/12; US Agents Laundered Money, Shipped Drugs for Cartels, 1/9/12; DEA agent loses appeal over video of him accidentally shooting himself during gun safety demo, 1/17/12; A frightening picture of drug war reality, 2/2/12; Heckuva Job, DEA, 5/1/12; Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive, 5/1/12; Student forgotten in cell by DEA files $20 million torture lawsuit, 5/3/12; Everyday Evil of America's Torture State, 5/3/12; DEA adds 26 ‘synthetic marijuana’ substances to government blacklist, 6/21/12; DEA’s Michele Leonhart: If Science Disagrees, We’ll Shut Down Research, 6/23/12; DEA warns: No free pass for medical pot, 12/21/12
Drug Testing: Fingerprint analysis tech aims to revolutionize drug testing, 7/26/11
Decriminalization/ Legalization: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: Why Legalize Drugs; Mexicans, U.S. question drug-legalization proposal, 8/9/10; Maine bill would fully legalize marijuana, 1/19/11; Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban, 1/26/11; Border guard fired, ‘interrogated’ for saying pot should be legalized, 1/26/11; When All Drugs Were Legal, 1/27/11; Why can’t the US legalize drugs? There’s ‘too much money in it,’ Clinton says, 2/7/11; Seattle Times Calls For Legalization Of Marijuana!, 2/18/11; DEA to legalize marijuana only for ‘Big Pharma,’ NORML claims, 2/23/11; DEA to legalize marijuana chemical for Big Pharma but keep it a crime for everyone else, 2/24/11; Marijuana IPOs Provide Investors With Gateway to Cannabis Boom, 3/9/11; Dem Rep. Jared Polis calls on Congress to end marijuana prohibition, 3/30/11; Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government, 6/2/11; World leaders denounce failed war on drugs; call for global decriminalization, 6/16/11; Four decades of drug war tyranny may come to an end with Ron Paul's new effort to legalize marijuana, 6/23/11; Ron Paul Bill Attacks Federal Marijuana War, 6/24/11; Portugal drug law show results ten years on, 7/1/11; Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal, 7/5/11; Why legalizing marijuana would be a very good thing, 7/6/11; Legalizing marijuana would hinder the multi-billion dollar empire of Mexican drug cartels, 8/1/11; Legalize heroin, 9/29/11; California’s largest doctor group calls for marijuana legalization, 10/16/11; Chicago may decriminalize marijuana, 10/27/11; Switzerland Legalizes Growing Cannabis At Home, 11/18/11; Want to end Mexican drug gang violence? Legalize drugs and the cartels will collapse, 12/14/11; Legalization a controversial weapon in Mexico’s drug war, 12/28/11; Colorado asks DEA to recognize marijuana’s medical value, 12/29/11; Singer Tony Bennett calls for legalizing drugs, 2/12/12; Obama: ‘I don’t mind debate’ but no to legalizing drugs, 4/14/12; Hundreds of economists agree marijuana legalization could save US taxpayers $13.7 billion per year, 4/23/12; Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Marijuana Legalization At White House Correspondents' Dinner 2012, 4/28/12; Global report: Decriminalization does not increase rates of drug use, 7/7/12; Uruguayan Govt Proposes Becoming 1st Country to Nationalize Production and Sale of Marijuana, 9/23/12; 8 Reasons To End Prohibition of All Drugs Immediately, 9/26/12; NJWeedman found not guilty in pot distribution case, 10/19/12; Washington could soon become first state to (sort of) legalize retail sale of marijuana, 10/23/12; Jury Nullification Keeps NJ Weedman Out of Jail; DEA Comes Calling, 10/24/12; Amsterdam’s pot shops saved after new Dutch government scraps ‘weed pass’, 10/30/12; Legalizing Marijuana Would Cut Cartel Income by 30%, 10/31/12; Ron Paul Debates Obama on Marijuana Legalization, 11/13/12; Legislators in Rhode Island and Maine To Introduce Recreational Marijuana Legalization Bills Tomorrow, 11/14/12; Reps. Ron Paul & Barney Frank to Obama: Leave pot smokers alone, 11/14/12; A Simple Constitutional Argument For Letting States Legalize Marijuana, 11/16/12; Marijuana Prohibition Will Die of 1,000 Cuts, 11/16/12; Cannabis Freedom State by State, a Nullification Domino Effect, 11/20/12; Marijuana's Top Lobbyist Told Us Why There Will Be Several Viable Legalization Bills Next Year In Congress, 11/23/12; NH's New Governor Open to Legalizing Medical Marijuana, 11/25/12; Indiana State Police chief advises lawmakers to legalize and tax pot, 11/28/12; Majority of Americans to Feds: Let the Weed Smokers Be, 12/7/12; Washington DC’s first medical marijuana grow sites win approval, 12/26/12; Ariz. ruling orders return of medical marijuana, 1/10/13; Hawaii Could Be The Next State To Legalize Pot, 1/11/13
CO & Wa, 11/6/12: Colorado, Washington approve recreational marijuana use, 11/6/12; Colorado, Washington Legalize Marijuana!, 11/7/12; Marijuana decriminalized in Washington and Colorado as voters reject police state 'War on Drugs', 11/7/12; What You Need To Know About Getting High In Colorado And Washington, 11/7/12; 'I'm moving to Colorado': Stoner star Seth Rogen takes to Twitter after marijuana legalized in two states, 11/7/12; Colorado, Washington Legalize Marijuana!, 11/7/12; Colorado And Washington Are The First Places In The World Where Weed Is Truly Legal, 11/8/12; Hundreds of marijuana possession cases already dismissed in Washington, 11/15/12; United Nations Official Calls on U.S. Government to Challenge Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington, 11/20/12; UN to Obama Administration: Punish Washington and Colorado for Undermining Global Drug War, 11/20/12; United Nations Moves to Impose International Treaties On States Legalizing Marijuana, 11/21/12; United Nations threatens Colorado, Washington state over marijuana decriminalization laws, 11/29/12; Legalized it! Washington pot possession ballot kicks in, 12/5/12; Fox News busted reporting drivers on Cannabis, 12/6/12; Feds remain AWOL as public pot smoking begins, 12/9/12; Governor signs Amendment 64, marijuana officially legal in Colorado, 12/10/12; Bar Owner Tells Pot Smokers to Light Up, 12/10/12; Marijuana legalization low-key by design in Co, 12/11/12; Warning to all pot smokers in Colorado and Washington: You are about to experience a costly lesson in federal tyranny and Obama betrayal, 12/11/12; Recreational marijuana officially legalized in Colorado following governor's signature, 12/13/12; Crowds gather in downtown Seattle to celebrate historic marijuana legalization in Washington state, 12/14/12; Colorado county bans commercial marijuana operations, 12/24/12; Colorado task force considers anti-marijuana tourism regulations, 1/4/13; U.S. Marijuana Laws Ricochet Through Latin America, 1/7/13; Bill To Set Limit For Driving While Stoned Has A Bad Chance, 1/22/13; Pot tourism in Colo.? Marijuana regulators OK idea, 2/19/13; Washington state bill would forgive all minor marijuana convictions, 2/21/13; UN: Colo., Wash. legal pot violates drug treaties, 3/5/13; United Nations agency demands U.S. government sue states over marijuana decriminalization laws, 3/5/13; Court Says Pot Smokers Can Be Fired, Even in CO, 4/25/13

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP): LEAP: Legalizing drugs may benefit the country, 10/25/11; We Have Lost Faith in This Officer To Enforce Our Failed Policy, 12/3/11; Active duty cop: 'The war on drugs is a war on people', 1/27/12; Cops across America tell federal government to end marijuana prohibition, 11/28/12
UC Boulder: CU Hopes To Snuff Out 4/20 Pot Event, 4/14/12; UC Loses some buds: School to shut down over pro-pot rally, 4/17/12