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General AnalysisFascism on the Right In Italy and On the Left In the UK Brings Bad Cannabis Policies. There Is A Long Tradition Of Ignoring Reports On Cannabis That Don’t Support The Prohibitionist Party Line.
Posted 2008-04-28 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
More Progress In The Netherlands; More Violence In Mexico. Lawless Law Enforcement in San Diego. Police “Robbing” the Medical Cannabis Deliveries?
Posted 2008-04-24 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Hitmen Wanted. Violence Of Prohibition Helps Recruit Zetas As U.S. State Department Warns About “Military Small-Unit Combat” On Mexican Border.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
The Economy and Cannabis Prohibition. We Will Have To Start Counting The Cost Of The Increasingly Unpopular War On Cannabis Users.
Posted 2008-04-14 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Chewing and Injecting Marijuana A Major Health Problem In Uganda? Or Quackery, and Corruption? How Reefer Madness Kills the Most Vulnerable. Selective Indignation, Indeed.
Posted 2008-04-02 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
MarijuanaNews.com Is Changing Sides. Will Now Support Drug War. The Other Guys Pay Better.
Posted 2008-04-01 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Tale of Two Countries, The Netherlands and Mexico, Regulation Versus Violence. Dutch Cannabis Smokers To Go “American”? When Will the Murders Cross Our Border?
Posted 2008-03-27 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Drug War Carnage In Mexico Grows As Dozens of Bodies Found In Buried Mass Graves Just South of El Paso. At Least 3,000 Thousand More Killed Since 2006.
Posted 2008-03-17 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Salvia Isn’t The “Next Marijuana” But Banning It Will Be The Next Stupidity. Does AP Stand For Absurd Propaganda? “Stock up while you still can.”
Posted 2008-03-12 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Roman Reefer Madness The Vatican Commits a Mortal Sin, But Spain Just Says, “No!” Forgive Them Father, For They Know Not What They Do. (But They Should!)
Posted 2008-03-11 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
What Is the Real Strategy Behind the Czar’s “Strategy ”? 40,000 SWAT Raids Per Year. One In Nine Young Black Males (20 To 34) Are Locked Up.
Posted 2008-03-10 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Guess Who Said , “The decrease in the abuse of cannabis among youth in the United States may be offset by an increase in the abuse of prescription drugs.” Iron Law Of Prohibition" &. Czar's Strategy 3
Posted 2008-03-05 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Old Lies in A New Package. Drug Czar’s “2008 National Drug Control Strategy” Again Demonstrates the Drug War Is Really A War on Cannabis Users. Part One "Potency"
Posted 2008-03-03 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Libertarian Party May 22-26 Convention in Denver: A Major Opportunity for Anti-Prohibitionists to Make Ourselves Heard by National Media In Cannabis Friendly City.
Posted 2008-02-29 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Walters Agrees to Help Major Mexican Organized Crime By Prosecuting More Small Marijuana Smugglers. Lock My People Up, Says Mexican AG. The Drug War Really Is About Marijuana.
Posted 2008-02-25 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Did Everyone With Any Brains Emigrate from Scotland? “More than ten per cent of Scotland's 16 to 19-year-olds have taken cocaine.” But The Police Are Looking For Cannabis Farms.
Posted 2008-02-20 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Prohibition Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Invisible Victims of the Invisible Drug War. The Paradox of State Terrorism As Deterrent.
Posted 2008-02-19 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Drug War Parties. Sometimes Wars and Words Have Two Meanings.
Posted 2008-02-12 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Invisible Context: The Drug War Is the Context for Marijuana Prohibition, But It Is Also The Context for Everything Else.
Posted 2008-02-05 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Obama Flip-Flops On Decrim. Shame on Him, Or Shame on Us? Why Do Politicians Fear Something A Huge Majority Supports? Who Is Their Real Constituency?
Posted 2008-02-04 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Implosion of Giuliani Fraud Would Not Have Been A Surprise If “Political Experts” Took Marijuana Prohibition Seriously.
Posted 2008-01-30 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis and Psychosis: 11 little black boxes. A critique of the Lancet's meta-analysis. by J. P. Stroud, Jr.
Posted 2007-12-21 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis Might Help in Afghan War, But “Words Are, Of Course, The Most Powerful Drug Used By Mankind.”
Posted 2007-12-17 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
T’was Another Great Victory. Teen Marijuana Use Down; Oxy Use Up. Teen Cigarette Use Went Down More Than Teen Marijuana Use.
Posted 2007-12-12 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Major Innovation In Prohibitionist Propaganda: Marijuana Is Now the “Initiator Drug”! We Couldn’t Make This Up, But They Do.
Posted 2007-12-11 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Why the Libertarian Party and Movement Are Especially Important to the Marijuana Reform Movement This Year. Ron Paul and Beyond with Steve Kubby.
Posted 2007-12-10 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The US Isn’t The Only Country Where The Cannabis Laws Are Misused And Aggravate Racial Relations. In London “Cannabis Warnings” Soar by 50%.
Posted 2007-12-07 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Florida Governor Demonstrates Absurdity of War on Cannabis. Prescription Drugs Kill; Cannabis Does Not – So The Killers Are “Just As Detrimental” As Cannabis .
Posted 2007-12-05 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Iron Law of Prohibition: Potent Pot, New Data and the Old Prohibitionist Party Line and Another Lie.
Posted 2007-11-27 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Dr. Grinspoon Opposes Massachusetts “Decrim” Initiative As “Fatally Flawed”. Internal Possession Of Marijuana Metabolites?!!
Posted 2007-11-26 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Drug Warrior John Edwards Gets Endorsement of Ex-Hippy Turned Hip Capitalist, Ice Cream Magnate, Ben Cohen. The Sixties Never Happened.
Posted 2007-11-14 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Prohibitionists Declare Victory in Drug War. “Lies, Damned Lies and Drug War Statistics.” So Now I Will Rag On the “Right.”
Posted 2007-10-15 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
College Football Player Frames Teammate With “False Evidence” How Is He Different from The Prohibitionists?
Posted 2007-10-08 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
More Arresting Developments. Record Marijuana Arrests Go Unreported. “No Medicine Is Smoked” – So DEA Busts Edibles Maker.
Posted 2007-10-01 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Incestuous Amplification. Prohibitionists Do It With Their Jackboots On, But It Is Not As Much Fun As It Sounds. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2007-09-28 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Drug War Is Politics By Other Means: Blackwater Gets Billions to Fight “Narco-Terorism”. Buying Constituencies for the Drug War. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2007-09-15 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Prophylactic State Violence: The Arrogance and Ignorance of Psychiatric Quackery. Bad Science, Worse Ethics -- Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2007-09-08 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
International “Prohibition Situation Report” – DEAland Media Ignore News Showing Cannabis Prohibition Is Counterproductive. Coffee Shop System Survives.
Posted 2007-08-31 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Strategy of Comparing Risks of Cannabis and Alcohol. When an Old Argument Catches On. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2007-08-24 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Will “Plan Mexico” And Its Surge in the Drug War Put Prohibition On the Public Agenda? Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2007-08-17 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Richard Cowan to Introduce Kubby and Tuck at NORML Conference. Moving Beyond MarijuanaNews to “Making Democracy Work.”
Posted 2006-04-16 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Updates About Kubby, Overgrow.com, Mexico. When A Mexican City Becomes More Dangerous Than Washington, DC…
Posted 2006-02-24 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Lou Dobbs and the Second Mexican War. Has It Already Begun? Counting the Costs of the Drugwar.
Posted 2006-02-16 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Kubby Update; Overgrow.com Overthrown; Italian Fascists Renew War on Cannabis; New Canadian Justice Minister Is Ashcroft-lite; NORML Report on Reefer Madness.
Posted 2006-02-10 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis Prohibition Is “Low-Intensity Warfare” Against Social Peace, Individual Freedom and the Rule of Law. Be very afraid... Three Lessons.
Posted 2005-12-15 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Busy, Often Bizarre Time In the World of Cannabis Prohibition. Still Bonkers In Britain. RCMP Still Lying In Canada. Dutch Parliament May Force “Legalization.”
Posted 2005-12-08 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
New DOJ Report: “Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2005” Shows That State Laws Have No Impact On Student Marijuana Use.
Posted 2005-11-22 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Chaos of Cannabis Prohibition In France, DEAland and Latin America. More Proof That It Is A Counterproductive Fraud.
Posted 2005-11-12 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Baghdad on The Bayou. Chernobyl for the American Political Class. Changing the Context for the Drugwar. How Damaging This Fiasco Must Be To The Morale Of Our Troops In Iraq.
Posted 2005-09-02 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
If Cannabis Didn’t Cause Lung Cancer, They Would Tell Us Right? And If It Might Prevent It??? Or Cure It?? The Sound of Silence.
Posted 2005-08-18 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews “Global Conspiracy Report” August 3, 2005 US Fails To Get Marc Held Without Bail. Mexico The Real Problem. Kubby Zings Czar. Interview with Michelle Rainey.
Posted 2005-08-05 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report July 11, 2005 Pain Just for the Poor? War On Patients; Allen St. Pierre of NORML On Meth, Marijuana and the Economics of Prohibition.
Posted 2005-07-12 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report July 7, 2005 UK Report: “two years ago and a lot has happened since then.” Dutch Crime Down. US Script Abuse Up. Narks On Online Seeds. No Pot Candy?
Posted 2005-07-08 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Eagle Bill, The Loss of A Good Man and Vaporizer Pioneer. Bill’s Life Will Long Be Recognized As A Rebuke to Medical Establishment For Its Failure to Recognize the Vaporization of Cannabis.
Posted 2005-07-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report July 4, 2005 New “Downing Street Memo” On Failure of Drugwar Suppressed. Mexico Pays The Price. Special Report from the Toker’s Bowl.
Posted 2005-07-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report July 4, 2005 New “Downing Street Memo” On Failure of Drugwar Suppressed. Mexico Pays The Price. Special Report from the Toker’s Bowl.
Posted 2005-07-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 30, 2005 UN Data Interesting. SF To Regulate Clubs? RI Governor Vetoes Medical; New Competition For GW? Reefer Madness In Chicago and DC.
Posted 2005-07-01 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 27, 2005 Canada Eases Medical Cannabis Rules. Rhode Island Access Laws. UN Reefer Madness On “International Anti-Drug Day.” UK Prisons Jammed.
Posted 2005-06-29 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 23, 2005 Feds Raid SF Clubs. Sativex in Canada, High Price. Oaksterdam Okays Vaporization; BC Tests Cannabis. Marijuana Raids Reignite Zapatistas
Posted 2005-06-26 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 20, 2005 Boje Freed On Bail. Baghdad on the Border Occupied. Use Highest in College Towns. Internet Addictive; Vaporization? Don’t Tell GW.
Posted 2005-06-21 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
George Will Quotes The Czar Quoting Lincoln and Quotes The Czar Lying, So I Will Quote George Will. And A Few Others.
Posted 2005-06-19 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 16, 2005 Canada Orders Renee Boje to Surrender. Interview. “Reps” Vote Against Protecting Patients. Democracy? Mexican Army In Nuevo Laredo.
Posted 2005-06-16 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 13, 2005 1/3 “Representatives” Protect Patients. Hawaii Fed Backs Off. Cannabinoids Stop Cancer. Mental Illness. African Dagga. American Hemp.
Posted 2005-06-15 00:16:20 by Richard Cowan
Mexico, the Drugwar and the US National Interest: Never Mind Iraq; We Need To Pay Attention to What We Are Doing to Our Southern Neighbor.
Posted 2005-06-13 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report June 9, 2005 Vancouver for Legalization. Sativex Delayed; Cal. AG: "Nothing is different”; San Diego for Medical; Conversation with Allen St. Pierre.
Posted 2005-06-10 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for June 2, 2005 War on Drugs Going Badly; War on Sick, Dying Booming. Pregnant Mother Jailed. Oregon Taxes. Homeless In DEAland. Allen St. Pierre.
Posted 2005-06-03 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for The MarijuanaNews World Report for May 30, 2005 Australians Outraged By Corby Case, Should Look In Mirror. UK Judges Say Sick, Dying Criminals, Hard Drug Use Soars. Home Grow Booms.
Posted 2005-06-01 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for May 26, 2005 Drugwar Makes Things Worse. CIA Drug Watchlist; Meth, Violence in Mexico; “Drugs” From Quebec? Narks and Smuggling; China Needs Help?
Posted 2005-05-27 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for May 24, 2005 Dutch NOT Closing Shops To Foreigners. Benefit of Sativex: Quacks Can’t Ignore Cannabis. Philippines Replace Cannabis with Tobacco.
Posted 2005-05-27 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for May 19, 2005 Top UK Cop Opposes Change As “Experts” Review. Jamaican Decrim? Marinol Shows Need for Medical Cannabis. Interview with Steve Kubby.
Posted 2005-05-20 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for May 16, 2005 Chaos on Mexican Border, Even Worse in Colombia; Ever More Bonkers in Britain; A Hanging in Singapore and Faint Hope in Australia.
Posted 2005-05-17 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for May 9, 2005: Police Raid LA Club. Cannabis in Hospital? Hemp Fails In N. H.; No Recrim In Alaska? Father To Hang In Singapore. Support For Decrim.
Posted 2005-05-09 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report, May 5, 2005. Montel Williams Appeals to Congress, Blair’s Reefer Madness, Washington Post Puts Arrest Data on Front Page! NORML’s Allen St. Pierre.
Posted 2005-05-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report May 2, 2005 Drug Czar Imports Scottish “Expert” Who Says Cannabis As Big A Threat As Heroin. Scotland A Mess. Interview With Steve Kubby About His Case
Posted 2005-05-02 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for April 28, 2005 Dutch Mayors And People Favor Legalization. Czar’s Helper Lies To Jamaicans. Alaska Governor Dumps Public Defender. ACLU Sues DEA.
Posted 2005-04-29 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for April 25, 2005 Prison Population Soars. Kids Abuse Pharmaceuticals. Feds Will Use SF Club Info. Bush Fails On Border. Russell Crow Defends Corby.
Posted 2005-04-26 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program notes for the MarijuanaNews World Report for April 21, 2005. Sativex Maker Declares War on Sick and Dying. Students Lead Drugwar Resistance Against Police. 420 A Huge Success In Colorado.
Posted 2005-04-22 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Big Brother Is Sniffing You – And Without Going to the Dogs. New Technologies and Court Rulings Could Raise More Threats to Cannabis Community. MarijuanaNews Exclusive.
Posted 2005-04-14 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Program Notes for Pot-TV’s The MarijuanaNews World Report for April 12, 2005 The New York Times Discovers Mexico… Drug Czar Pushes Reefer Madness As Teen Meth Use Surges. Texas and Canadian Prisons
Posted 2005-04-02 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Big Brother’s Best Friend. The Misuse of Dogs In the War on Cannabis Wins Court Approval in DEAland and Canada.
Posted 2005-01-26 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Dutch Lessons: Tolerance Works. Prohibition Is Counterproductive. Who Is The Real Threat To Our Freedom and Security?
Posted 2004-12-14 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Beyond The Cannabis Cup: A Few Things You Should Not Overlook In Amsterdam.
Posted 2004-11-30 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Two BC Growers Bag Cannabis Cup Prizes. Dutch Growers Face Competition and Government Harassment. Spain Looks Warmer. Reporting from Amsterdam.
Posted 2004-11-26 16:40:00 by Richard Cowan
Remembrance and Ignorance: In Afghan fields the poppies grow...
Posted 2004-11-11 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
We Live In Interesting Times. The Elections and the Cannabis Reform Movement. The Problems With Making Democracy Work Against Prohibitionist Propaganda.
Posted 2004-11-04 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Arresting Developments: 2003 Cannabis Arrests Hit All-Time High In DEAland, Decline In UK and Canada. Deaths Related to One Drug Soar In Holland. Guess Which One.
Posted 2004-10-28 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Bush’s New Freedom Initiative: “Treatment” For Using Cannabis, From The Wonderful Folks Who Brought Us Vioxx, Baycol, Etc. Author of IOM Report Says, "I can't understand why it isn't rescheduled."
Posted 2004-10-11 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
What Is It About War That You Don’t Understand? Charging Marc Emery With “Trafficking” Was No Accident, And Neither Was The Wording Of The Law.
Posted 2004-08-30 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Time Magazine Reports BC Bud 20% Less Potent Than Four Years Ago?? Incompetent Prohibitionist Propaganda and Even Worse Journalism. As Some Reporters Die to Find the Truth Others Live to Lie.
Posted 2004-08-20 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
California Addiction Specialist Lies to Justify Cannabis Prohibition and War on Sick and Dying. Misrepresents JAMA Articles.
Posted 2004-08-16 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Patriot Act Hits A New Low As The Prison/Probation/Parole Population Hits A New High.
Posted 2004-08-08 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
MPP Incompetence Continues to Embarrass Marijuana Movement. Bad Initiative Dead In Nevada for Wrong Reasons. Good Initiative in Arkansas Abandoned. Local Activists Persevere.
Posted 2004-07-18 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
European Study Shows Potency of Prohibitionist Propaganda. CBS and The AP Lie to the American People About the Dutch. Surprise!
Posted 2004-07-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Richard Lee's Oakland Initiative To Be On November Ballot, But MPP’s Nevada Initiative May Not Make It, And IT SHOULD NOT! Fiasco Embarrasses and Undermines Cannabis Movement With Mandatory Minimums!
Posted 2004-06-19 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
It’s The Stupidity, Stupid. How the Prohibitionist Ideology Has Wrecked The Republican Party and Undermined Democracy Everywhere. When Ideology Trumps Reality, The Result is Stupidity.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
If Cannabis Didn’t Cause Cancer, They Would Tell Us, Right? No, It Would Undermine Cannabis Prohibition. Hiding the Truth In Plain Sight. Another One We Could Not Make Up!
Posted 2004-06-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Parents The Pro-Drug? Are Nagging Parents Driving Their Kids to Drink? Driving Schizophrenics Paranoid? Can We Drive the Media to Think?
Posted 2004-05-23 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Columbia University Prostitutes Itself. JAMA Publishes Racist Claptrap. The Lancet Upholds Its Standards.
Posted 2004-05-14 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Abuse In Prisons: Iraqi and American. Bush says, “That is not the way we do things in America.” No, That Is Exactly The Way We Do Things in America! Especially In Texas and Florida.
Posted 2004-05-06 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Crisis in Democracy, Prohibitionism And The Police Fiasco. Why Will It Work In Iraq, If It Does Not Work In DEAland?
Posted 2004-04-04 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Prohibition and The Prison State. “Protecting” Youth and Minorities. In DEAland, The UK and France Prisons Are Full.
Posted 2004-03-20 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
John Walters Says, “Prescription Drug Abuse Is The Second Largest Illicit Drug Problem” – After Cannabis, Of Course! Different Measures for “Success” and Failure. Seeking New Victims.
Posted 2004-03-13 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
The Passion of the Itchy and Scratchy, Focusing On The Make-Believe To Avoid The Real Suffering of the Christ.
Posted 2004-02-26 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Beyond Bonkers: UK "Reclassification" Of Cannabis Caps Weeks of Absurdity. Prime Minister Has A Drug Problem?
Posted 2004-01-30 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
Legalization Initiative To Be On November Ballot In Alaska. Good Prospects for Winning. It Should Influence Debate In Canada.
Posted 2004-00-07 16:20:00 by Richard Cowan
NORML Reports Marijuana Arrests For 2002 Near Record High “Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 45 Seconds” Plus Analysis by Richard Cowan.
Posted 2003-10-28 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Bennett, Limbaugh, and the Blindness of the Prohibitionist Paradigm.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Sociopathic Law Enforcement, Cannabis Prohibition, and the Stockholm Syndrome. We Must Call Lies Lies Before We Can Call Ourselves Truly Free.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
We Live In Interesting Times: Chaos in Cannabis Prohibition Around the World. Does John Walters Really Want A National Debate on Marijuana Prohibition?
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Lou Dobbs Plays Arthur Andersen to The Drug War’s Enron. A Week of Prohibitionist Propaganda And 91% Of His “Pseudosophisticate” Viewers Still Vote for Decrim.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Learning About Prohibitionism: House Debate on Medical Marijuana Bill Offers New Insight Into Police State Ideology.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Embarrassing Questions: If It Was Wrong to Lie to Justify the War on Saddam, Why Isn’t It Wrong to Lie to Justify the War on Cannabis Users? Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Science, Democracy, Ideology and the Prohibitionist Police State. Marijuana Use Doesn’t Hurt “Thinking Skills” But Prohibition Does. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
All Power to The Incompetents: UK Cannabis “Reform” Delayed As Police Push for Arbitrary Power. Fail to Protect Royal Family, But Demand Control Over Cannabis. More That We Couldn’t Make Up.
Posted 0000-00-00 00:00:00 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis Could Kill 30,000 Per Year, Or The Editors of the British Medical Journal Could Be Incompetent Quacks Who Are Intellectually Dishonest. You Decide. Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2003-05-05 21:23:19 by Richard Cowan
Now, How the Narks Created Smack in Mexico. Replacing Marijuana With Poppies. The Iron Law of Prohibition Keeps Working, But The Media Don’t
Posted 2003-04-24 21:56:04 by Richard Cowan
Good News From Holland Is Even Better in Context. “Large Majority” of Dutch Parliament Favors Legalization of Cannabis. Most EU Countries Recognize Dutch Model Superior to DEAland’s. We Are Winning!
Posted 2003-04-23 21:40:37 by Richard Cowan
Jamaican Attorney General Wants Debate On Implementing “Decriminalization” – So Does The Canadian Justice Minister. Why Isn’t There An International Debate? Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2003-04-17 01:07:41 by Richard Cowan
International Update: Preview of NORML Conference Report On Developments In Cannabis Policies Around the World By Richard Cowan.
Posted 2003-04-14 21:46:36 by Richard Cowan
Is The War On Cannabis A Cult? Taking Cannabiphobia To New Depths Of Absurdity. A Method to Their Madness?
Posted 2003-04-04 18:25:38 by Richard Cowan
The Latest Research: Are “Dope Smoking Teens Addicted by Early 20s” Or Is Regular Drinking In Teens “Protective Against Cannabis Dependence.” Or Does Cannabis Protect Against Alcoholism? You Decide.
Posted 2003-04-02 23:31:52 by Richard Cowan
Unintended Consequences: How The Iraq War Has Changed the Global Climate for Cannabis Prohibition. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2003-03-26 19:20:45 by Richard Cowan
A Salute to Marco Cappato. Italian Member of European Parliament Spent Weekend In Manchester Jail to Protest UK Cannabis Prohibition. Media Ignored Him Just As They Have Ignored Colin Davies.
Posted 2003-03-24 19:33:35 by Richard Cowan
UN Nark's Speech To Swedish Prohibitionists May Cause Permanent Brain Damage. Illogic, Ignorance and Lying, Especially About the Dutch, Of Course.
Posted 2003-03-15 00:46:45 by Richard Cowan
Drug Czar’s Massive Anti-Cannabis Media Campaign Shows How Prohibitionist Propaganda Machine Works In (Fill In Blank for Your Community), Says (Fill In Blank with Name of Someone In Jail.)
Posted 2003-03-13 00:48:40 by Richard Cowan
Is the War On Drugs A “Just War”? Should It Be Easier To Justify Violence Against A Foreign Dictatorship Than Against Peaceful Citizens Of One’s Own Country?
Posted 2003-03-11 21:00:07 by Richard Cowan
Brtsh Lng Fndtn Lies 2 U W Txt. Prohibitionist Propaganda: New Medium, Old Methods.
Posted 2003-03-06 18:58:02 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis Friendly Cities Rank Highest In International Quality of Life Survey. For personal safety, “Lowest scoring city in North America is Washington D.C” Lessons for Civic Leaders. Special Report.
Posted 2003-03-04 21:58:57 by Richard Cowan
The Seemingly Inexhaustible Torrent Of Prohibitionist Propaganda Reminds Me Of The Greek Myth About Hercules And The Stables Of King Augeas. Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2003-02-27 23:07:40 by Richard Cowan
Is The UN An Instrument of Peace and Freedom Or Of War and Tyranny? UN Narks Make Answer Clear. Lies and Hatred In Service To International Police State. (International Narcotics Control Board Report)
Posted 2003-02-26 23:14:17 by Richard Cowan
Media Covers War On Bongs More Than War On Patients. Questions About Ashcroft’s Latest Jihad. Sites Redirected To DEA? High Times Magazine To Suffer Major Revenue Loss. Glass Makers Hardest Hit.
Posted 2003-02-25 20:06:13 by Richard Cowan
Ashcroft Calls Press Conference to Announce War On Bongs. 55 Indicted. Priorities in the Age of Terror. Full Text of DOJ Press Release.
Posted 2003-02-24 18:35:16 by Richard Cowan
“Marijuana Isn’t Harmless.” Okay, But Why Isn’t It Sold Over the Counter? Or Would You Ban Something That Causes 300,000 ER Visits Every Year, And Kills A Child Every Month? (Trick Question)
Posted 2003-02-20 20:13:35 by Richard Cowan
They’ve Lied to Us About Marijuana, So How Do We Know That They Aren’t Lying About Iraq? Credibility in Time of War.
Posted 2003-02-14 17:50:24 by Richard Cowan
The Gateway Theory Won’t Die Because It Tells Prohibitionists Something They Want to Believe, But The Truth Tells Them Something They Refuse to Hear.
Posted 2003-02-05 21:28:56 by Richard Cowan
2003: Major Developments Scheduled for Year. Things to Look Out For and Things to Look Forward To.
Posted 2003-01-06 17:16:47 by Richard Cowan
Religious Leaders Finally Beginning To Organize Opposition To The Drug War, “A Mutiny for Mercy,” But For Christians There May Be A More Compelling Reason Than They Realize.
Posted 2002-12-23 16:43:43 by Richard Cowan
Walters Tells a New Lie. Oh Happy Day! People Need Treatment If They Are Sent to Treatment, By Definition. And How Do They Treat “Marijuana Addicts?” We Couldn’t Make This Up, But They Did.
Posted 2002-12-17 17:56:49 by Richard Cowan
Famous Think Tank Discovers That the “Gateway” Is A Fraud, But Everything Else That the Prohibitionists Tell Us Is Still True. They Have An Office In Holland But Ignore the Dutch Experience.
Posted 2002-12-03 16:41:24 by Richard Cowan
Driving and Cannabis Prohibition: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Police State. Analysis by Richard Cowan and a Report from DRCNet.
Posted 2002-11-27 16:20:08 by Richard Cowan
Dan Forbes Documents Walters’ Lies About Potency. Understanding That The War On Cannabis Is Built On Lies Is Key to Understanding More Than Just Drug War.
Posted 2002-11-20 17:39:18 by Richard Cowan
British Lung Foundation Cons Media. Blaming Cannabis for Problems Caused By Prohibition. Tripping Over the Party Line. The Media Fell For It, As Usual, But UK Anti-Tobacco Group Does Not.
Posted 2002-11-19 13:50:04 by Richard Cowan
Full Text of British Lung Foundation Report Including Misleading Press Release.
Posted 2002-11-19 13:33:10 by Richard Cowan
Footnotes to British Lung Foundation Report Plus NORML's Comments.
Posted 2002-11-19 13:20:29 by Richard Cowan
Leading Dutch Anti-Prohibitionists Say, “The Quality Of The Drugs-Debate Is Abominable.”
Posted 2002-11-11 15:47:42 by Richard Cowan
Their Liars Beat Our Liars. Freedom Has Nothing to Fear from the Truth, But Much To Fear From Those Who Think That the End Justifies The Means. Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-11-06 21:09:24 by Richard Cowan
The Washington Post and The Evil of Banality. "Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
Posted 2002-11-04 16:56:03 by Richard Cowan
Democracy, Cannabis and the Drug Czar. Arrests Remain Close to Record Levels. Support for Medical Cannabis Now Up to 80%. And 34% Favor Full Legalization. We Are Winning, But The People Are Suffering.
Posted 2002-10-28 20:59:41 by Richard Cowan
How Prohibitionism Corrupts the New York Times: “Educating” the Children with the Party Line, and Undermining Journalistic Integrity. Analysis by Richard Cowan.
Posted 2002-10-18 16:54:36 by Richard Cowan
The War On the Sick, Dying and Disabled by the Media/Police State Complex: Colin Davies Sentenced to Three Years. Fifty Armed Police Close The Dutch Experience (Again). Arrest Colin’s Brother.
Posted 2002-10-03 18:38:49 by Richard Cowan
Calling All Quacks: The Therapeutic Police State and the Politicization of Medicine. Doctors Cannot Study The Violence of Cannabis Prohibition. Because They Are The Disease, Not The Cure.
Posted 2002-09-10 11:02:15 by Richard Cowan
The Prohibitionist Police State Versus The People. Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-09-06 19:56:01 by Richard Cowan
Afghan Opium Crop Booms Under DEAland Control As Feds Focus On Cannabis, Reverse Policy On Prosecuting Small Medical Growers In Washington State; Cut 6 Plants In California; Seize Bongs In Illinois.
Posted 2002-08-30 17:42:17 by Richard Cowan
Cannabis Prohibition Prostitutes Science In New Emergency Dept. Data. Hiding the Truth Behind A Cloud of Lies.
Posted 2002-08-26 18:01:17 by Richard Cowan
Seattle Hempfest Attendance Hits Record 150,000. Flexing Its Political Muscle to Stop Arrests of Cannabis Users. Too Big To Ignore, And Maybe Just Too Big.
Posted 2002-08-19 15:29:09 by Richard Cowan
Operation Peacepipe: Calling On the Makers and Sellers of Glass Art Pipes to Defend Their Art and Our Freedom.
Posted 2002-08-15 16:42:20 by Richard Cowan
I’m A Legalizer. What Are You? The Nevada Fiasco. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-08-13 17:51:51 by Richard Cowan
New Zealand “Labour” Government Pledges No Change In Cannabis Laws for Three Years to Get Support of Right Wing Parties in New Parliament.
Posted 2002-08-09 16:50:01 by Richard Cowan
The Dutch Experience(s): A Note to Readers from Richard Cowan. And Soon To Be A Book. Special Report by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-08-07 15:10:06 by Richard Cowan
Dutch Government Reconfirms Coffee Shop Policy. Drops Any Mention of Closing Border Shops. The Justice Minister Is Educating the Prime Minister.
Posted 2002-08-02 03:08:03 by Richard Cowan
Swiss Government Says Going Dutch Does NOT Violate Treaties. Implications for Other Countries, Especially Canada and UK. Plus Full Text of UN Nark Press Release.
Posted 2002-07-30 05:39:51 by Richard Cowan
And Now, How The Narks Created "Ice" In Hawaii. Government Study Says The Suppression of Pakalolo Increases Use of Meth. Why Didn’t Someone Warn Them This Would Happen? -- He Asked Sarcastically.
Posted 2002-07-26 05:42:01 by Richard Cowan
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Resolution on the Control of Cannabis in Africa. UN Narks Urge War on Poorest of the Poor. Cannabis Prohibition Does Most Damage In Poor Countries.
Posted 2002-07-25 04:23:07 by Richard Cowan
More Fraud On Wall Street; The Drug Czar Lies to Business Leaders Courtesy WSJ. Reporting from Beautiful Haarlem, in The Netherlands.
Posted 2002-07-22 08:25:01 by Richard Cowan
Classic Reefer Madness At London Times: "Woman who killed father 'driven mad by cannabis.'" Quacks and Hacks and Schizophrenia. Is It Paranoid to Distrust Politicized Science?
Posted 2002-07-19 06:36:19 by Richard Cowan
My Thanks to the Editors of The Wall Street Journal For Lying to Their Readers (Again) -- Giving Me The Opportunity To Explain Dutch Cannabis Policies (Again). Reporting from Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Posted 2002-07-18 08:05:11 by Richard Cowan
Bonkers in Britain: New Cannabis Rules Please No One, Confuse Everyone. Watching the Political Establishment Make Fools of Themselves. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-07-11 17:27:08 by Richard Cowan
America Sentenced to Life In Prison For Marijuana. Really! Another One We Couldn’t Make Up. And As Usual, It Is Even Worse for Others. DEAland’s War On Cannabis Disastrous for Poor Countries.
Posted 2002-07-02 13:32:58 by Richard Cowan
A "Study" Has Begun On the Affects of the Lambeth Experiment On Children: The Answers Are Obvious, And Reassuring, But the Questions Are Really Frightening.
Posted 2002-06-28 14:51:52 by Richard Cowan
One Nation Under George, With Very Little Liberty And Justice for Anyone. Court Rulings and Court Reality. Jury Smuggled Into Courthouse.
Posted 2002-06-27 14:21:21 by Richard Cowan
De Facto Cannabis Decriminalization In Scotland? Is Crack Epidemic In Brixton the Fault of Cannabis Decriminalization? Or Is The UK Drugs Problem Just Part of Crises In Law Enforcement and Journalism?
Posted 2002-06-24 18:09:50 by Richard Cowan
Hutchinson Must Not Have Been In This London Neighborhood. World Famous West End Theater District "Slides Into Lawlessness." But That’s Okay Because They Don’t Have A Non-Arrest Cannabis Policy – Yet.
Posted 2002-06-21 17:39:19 by Richard Cowan
DEA Chief Hutchinson Tours London. Becomes Expert On UK Youth. Then There Is the Real World: Views From the National Youth Parliament and a Youth Magazine Survey.
Posted 2002-06-20 16:24:37 by Richard Cowan
The UK Criminal Justice System Is “In Chaos.” Prisons Full. More Reasons Cannabis Prohibition Must End.
Posted 2002-06-17 18:46:03 by Richard Cowan
Two More Stories from The UK That We Couldn’t Make Up: 10,000 Scots Addicted To Dangerous Over-The-Counter Drugs and Bristol Police Drunk and Lewd At “Anti-Drug” Benefit.
Posted 2002-06-10 17:54:07 by Richard Cowan
And Now, How the Narks Created Crack In the UK. Britain Leads EU In Cocaine Consumption and Is Now Having A Crack Epidemic. Will They Be Too Busy Busting Coffee Shops To Go After Crack Houses?
Posted 2002-06-05 17:21:08 by Richard Cowan
Did The Drug War Claim Another 3,056 Casualties On 9-11? Ariana Huffington’s Extraordinary Indictment.
Posted 2002-06-04 20:00:01 by Richard Cowan
Dan Forbes Strikes Again! Uncovers Conspiracy By Ohio Governor and the Partnership for An UnFree America to Subvert the Democratic System.
Posted 2002-05-31 14:08:10 by Richard Cowan
Crime Declined Sharply London Area With De Facto Decrim. The Narks Caught In Yet Another Lie. Surprise! Surprise!
Posted 2002-05-29 18:03:27 by Richard Cowan
UK Law Lord Calls Cannabis Prohibition Stupid. His Lordship Is Too Kind! Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-05-24 16:14:15 by Richard Cowan
The Cannabis Section of the Home Affairs Select Committee’s Report. Intellectually Embarrassing, but Politically Useful. “The time has come for the international treaties to be reconsidered."
Posted 2002-05-22 19:21:05 by Richard Cowan
UK Update: Committee to Recommend De Facto Decrim Tomorrow. Dutch Experience Still Open. Colin Davies Free On Bail. Government Reluctant to Pay for GW’s Expensive Products? Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-05-21 17:26:11 by Richard Cowan
Is the Dutch Coffee Shop System In Danger ? European Elections and the Future of Cannabis Reform. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-05-17 17:34:50 by Richard Cowan
More Proof That The Drug War Is Really A War On Cannabis. Plus: Sabotaging Medical Cannabis Research And Lying About It. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2002-05-16 17:05:43 by Richard Cowan
UK Committee Will Endorse Reclassification – “Decriminalization” By Another Name, But Says Real “Decriminalization” Would “Send the Wrong Message” Cannabis Equals Valium Is The Right Message?
Posted 2002-05-13 16:40:08 by Richard Cowan
Marijuana Bigger Problem Than Meth? DEAland And The Bush Administration Have a Very Serious Walters Problem. We Couldn’t Make This Up!
Posted 2002-05-07 15:36:49 by Richard Cowan
Marches Reported Around the World, Arrests In New York, Peace In The UK, Fear In San Francisco, but An Odd Silence in Vancouver.
Posted 2002-05-06 18:03:00 by Richard Cowan
First Dutch Cannabis Coffeeshop, Rebel Inc., To Open In Scottish Capital. This Really Is Important! Be Sure and Sign Up for The Newsletter.
Posted 2002-05-02 14:09:18 by Richard Cowan
The Myth That The Washington Post and John Walters Are ‘Harmless’; Drug Czar Puts Hyperlying About Cannabis At The Center of the War on Freedom.
Posted 2002-05-01 14:46:06 by Richard Cowan
The Endless Cynicism of the Drug Warriors. The Drug War and Terrorism. MarijuanaNews Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-12-19 18:24:46 by Richard Cowan
My version of “Because I got high….” By Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-10-11 19:16:04 by Richard Cowan
National Review Features A Debate Among Anti-Prohibitionists. Sometimes People Don’t Realize How Right They Are. 3 Articles
Posted 2001-08-10 18:20:14 by Richard Cowan
Now The Debate Really Is International: UK Parliament Committee To Review Drug Laws.
Posted 2001-07-23 17:09:04 by Richard Cowan
"Young men who take cannabis are five times more likely to be violent than those who avoid the drug." No, But I Am At Least Five Times More Likely to Be Violent When I Read This Sort Of Crap.
Posted 2001-07-16 18:02:36 by Richard Cowan
Letter to the Editors of The London Times. A New Way of Lying About the Dutch. The Games That Prohibitionists Play.
Posted 2001-07-12 20:34:23 by Richard Cowan
As More and More Countries Begin to Question Cannabis Prohibition, The Debate Should Be An International. Basic Rights Versus Toothless Treaties. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-07-09 22:15:47 by Richard Cowan
Prominent Dutch Anti-Prohibitionist Agues That Cannabis Reformers Should Not Advocate Intensifying the War on Users of Other Drugs As An Alternative to Cannabis Prohibition.
Posted 2001-06-29 16:15:29 by Richard Cowan
Three Items from Australia Demonstrate the Persistence of Ignorance. South Australian Parliament Debates Zero Tolerance Vs. "Regulation"
Posted 2001-06-26 19:22:24 by Richard Cowan
The Accelerating Disintegration of Marijuana Prohibition in Europe. If the Tories Are “all about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll,” Where Can the Left Go? Embarrassment for Swedes. Dutch PM for Dinner.
Posted 2001-06-18 20:08:33 by Richard Cowan
A Weird Week in the World of Marijuana Prohibition: Paranoid in Boise, Practical in London, And an Unusual Line-Up On the Supreme Court. Two Stories and Two Footnotes.
Posted 2001-06-15 18:40:42 by Richard Cowan
A Great Arkansas Journalist Examines The Story that Could Bring Down Bush And The Drug War.
Posted 2001-05-30 17:48:20 by Richard Cowan
Conference On Rehab Racketeers Tied To Bush Will Raise Important Issues: Saving Children From Drug Treatment Abuse. Saving DEAland from Drug War Lite. A Conference That Should Embarrass Washington.
Posted 2001-05-18 19:14:06 by Richard Cowan
Lies and Hatred From Former US Attorney In Alaska. As Bad As It Gets.
Posted 2001-05-17 20:29:51 by Richard Cowan
We Really Are Winning! DEAland Loses Seat On UN Nark Committee; Europe Abandoning Cannabis Prohibition.
Posted 2001-05-08 21:31:14 by Richard Cowan
Bush Changes the Global Climate for Marijuana Prohibition. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-05-02 19:46:40 by Richard Cowan
Two Press Releases from Swedish Prohibitionists Tell Us A Little About Dutch and Australian Policies – And Too Much About the Prohibitionist Mentality.
Posted 2001-04-25 17:47:10 by Richard Cowan
Another One We Could Not Make Up: Washington State Police Use HIV Infected Prostitute to Lure Men Into Marijuana Deals. How Marijuana Prohibition Really Works.
Posted 2001-04-16 20:34:10 by Richard Cowan
The Great Train Robbery: DEA Gives Amtrak a Commission on Albuquerque Seizures In Exchange for Detailed Info On Passengers.
Posted 2001-04-12 19:26:09 by Richard Cowan &JC
"Traffic" Through the Rearview Mirror: Trying to Understand a Phenomenon.
Posted 2001-04-10 21:21:43 by Richard Cowan
The Los Angeles Times Once Again Gives Space for McCaffrey And An Aide To Lie To Its Readers.
Posted 2001-03-15 18:30:41 by Richard Cowan
New Zealand Pharmacologist Responds to Prohibitionist Editorial. Brilliant Argument and Interesting History.
Posted 2001-03-14 17:31:21 by Richard Cowan
Boston Columnist Don Feder Shares His Ignorance and Hatred.
Posted 2001-03-12 22:30:33 by
We Are Winning! Switzerland to Surpass the Dutch and Allow Not Only Use and Sales – But Also Cultivation. Major Impact On Germany and the Rest of Europe.
Posted 2001-03-09 16:15:11 by Richard Cowan
Saving the Law from Law Enforcement. Ending the Police State Fraud. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-03-08 20:34:59 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! The Dutch Government Shows More Confidence that Things Are Going Our Way in Europe.
Posted 2001-02-28 17:30:58 by Richard Cowan
Even The Prohibitionists Are Attacking DARE. What Is the Definition of Fraud? Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-02-26 17:18:35 by Richard Cowan
As Court Challenges Mount to UK Cannabis Prohibition, London Times Op-ed By Retired Chief Constable Predicts -- "Human Rights Act will make cannabis legal."
Posted 2001-02-23 17:08:58 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! England’s Next "Glorious Revolution" to Be Led By Cannabis Reformers.
Posted 2001-02-12 18:06:56 by
UK Government Cynicism: Change in Cannabis Laws to Benefit Son of "Justice" Minister, But Not the Sick and Dying.
Posted 2001-02-08 19:26:02 by Richard Cowan
The Changing Environment for Marijuana Reform -- Analysis By Richard Cowan
Posted 2001-02-06 19:06:05 by Richard Cowan
How Marijuana Prohibition Really Works on the Texas/Mexico Border. Contrast with the Situation at the Canadian Border. Great Journalism.
Posted 2001-02-05 16:32:01 by Richard Cowan
Belgium To Decriminalize Possession and Cultivation for Personal Use. No Coffeeshops, Yet.
Posted 2001-01-19 18:32:27 by Richard Cowan
"Australian National Council on Drugs" Wants To Make Cannabis Focus Of War On Drugs. Melbourne Paper Editorializes Against Move. When Does Stupidity Become Evil?
Posted 2001-01-17 18:03:11 by Richard Cowan
Debate Heats Up As New Zealand Begins to "Study" Cannabis Use. Perhaps They Should Also Study the Effects of Prohibition and the Dangers of the Therapeutic State. -- 2 Items.
Posted 2001-01-16 16:59:20 by Richard Cowan
How the Drug War Really Works In Small Cities in DEAland. Politics and Prohibitionist Journalism.
Posted 2001-01-11 18:38:00 by Richard Cowan
Ottawa Citizen’s Dan Gardner Says "U.S. Bullies World Into Waging Futile Drug War" --UK Article Demonstrates How This Continues.
Posted 2001-01-08 18:55:05 by Richard Cowan
2000- A Year in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition -- By Kevin Christopher Nelson -- Special to MarijuanaNews
Posted 2001-01-02 17:09:32 by Richard Cowan
Marijuana Arrests In New York City Continue to Soar. Arrests Will Exceed 60,000 for this Year. Up From Only 720 in 1992!
Posted 2000-12-20 19:45:53 by Richard Cowan
UK Study on Marijuana and Driving Again Shows That It Is Not A Significant Factor in Accidents. Should We Arrest People for Being Tired?
Posted 2000-12-19 16:46:46 by Richard Cowan
The Spin Is Beginning To Wobble On The "Latest Teen Drug Use" Survey. Czar Is "Greatly Encouraged" By Poll Showing Heroin Use By 12th Graders At All Time High.
Posted 2000-12-14 18:43:32 by Richard Cowan
Scientist Comments on One of the Reasons for Bad "Science" -- Bad Scientists! Exclusive to MarijuanaNews
Posted 2000-12-13 18:00:10 by Richard Cowan
Scientific American Magazine "Firmly Linked" to Reefer Madness
Posted 2000-12-12 18:28:04 by Richard Cowan
As DEAland Begins to Move Away from "Civil Forfeiture" Ontario and the UK Start Down A Very Dangerous Path. -- 3 Articles
Posted 2000-12-08 16:52:43 by Richard Cowan
Clinton Says Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized. Now He Tells Us!
Posted 2000-12-07 17:10:48 by Richard Cowan
Racial Profiling Was Encouraged by the DEA, Says New Jersey. Surprise! Surprise!
Posted 2000-11-29 18:01:44 by Richard Cowan
Supreme Court Agrees to Fast Track for Government’s Objection to Medical Necessity in Oakland CBC Case. Rejects "Drug Roadblocks" in Indianapolis Case.
Posted 2000-11-28 17:23:06 by Richard Cowan
Again the Media Parrots the Partnership’s Prohibitionist Propaganda Even Though Reported "Changes" Are Within the Margin of Error. Emphasis in Propaganda as in Seizures Shows Drug War Really About Mar
Posted 2000-11-27 17:48:40 by Richard Cowan
In Massachusetts: Money Misses, Grassroots Gain! Special to MarijuanaNews.com by Michael D. Cutler, Esq.
Posted 2000-11-10 09:40:47 by Richard Cowan
We Are Still Winning! Almost A Third of DEAland "Agree that Marijuana Should Be Legalized." Okay, But More Than That Voted for Legalization Plus in Alaska.
Posted 2000-11-09 20:10:09 by Richard Cowan
Marijuana Initiatives Win Everywhere But Alaska. Drug War Takes a Beating.
Posted 2000-11-08 19:10:05 by Richard Cowan
The Complete Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of UK Cannabis Policies. 3 Articles.
Posted 2000-11-07 23:03:05 by Richard Cowan
Swiss Commission Denounces Marijuana Prosecutions As "An Arbitrary Act of Coercion".
Posted 2000-11-06 19:38:49 by Richard Cowan
At Least the Libertarians Are Noting the Record Marijuana Arrests and Offer an Interesting Perspective. The Media Continue to be the Watchdog that Never Barks.
Posted 2000-11-01 17:35:13 by Richard Cowan
Lycos’ Non-response to Complaints about Its Alliance with Drug Czar Angers Readers.
Posted 2000-11-01 17:35:13 by Richard Cowan
Should Marijuana Be Legalized? "Soon we will know" Says Life Magazine. The Answer Has Been Delayed A Bit!
Posted 2000-10-31 19:23:31 by Richard Cowan
Police State Tactics in New Zealand Mill Raid.
Posted 2000-10-27 14:30:28 by Richard Cowan
Lycos Joins Drug Czar In Prohibitionist Propaganda Campaign to Lie to Children About Marijuana.
Posted 2000-10-26 19:10:29 by Richard Cowan
Swedish Prohibitionism Disintegrating. 2 Articles
Posted 2000-10-26 19:10:29 by Richard Cowan
Scott Bledsoe Arrested at Bush Rally; Released. Another Lawsuit for Those Who Have Not Heard of the 1st Amendment. Bravo!
Posted 2000-10-26 19:10:29 by Richard Cowan
Australian Prohibitionists Find It "Disturbing" that People Think Marijuana Less Dangerous Than Alcohol For Drivers. The Party Line More Important than Safe Driving.
Posted 2000-10-23 18:11:23 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! Measuring the Progress Toward Legalization in the UK – 2 Articles
Posted 2000-10-20 15:53:20 by Richard Cowan
Institute of Medicine Report on Medical Marijuana Contradicts Assumptions for NIDA Monkeyshines. Special to MarijuanaNews
Posted 2000-10-20 15:53:20 by Richard Cowan
Oxford Pharmacologist, Fellow of the Prestigious Royal Society, Says Marijuana Safer Than Aspirin.
Posted 2000-10-19 17:46:30 by Richard Cowan
As Predicted, NIDA Buys Its Press Release: "Marijuana has as much potential for abuse … as cocaine and heroin."
Posted 2000-10-16 17:31:04 by Richard Cowan
Bizarro to Leave after the First of the Year! Goes Out Lying.
Posted 2000-10-16 17:31:04 by Richard Cowan
New Report Gives More Impetus to UK Cannabis Debate. Guess Who Has the Highest Use Rates in The EU. We Couldn’t Have Planned It Better.
Posted 2000-10-12 20:00:40 by Richard Cowan
New Zealand NORML Notes Unhappy 25th Birthday For Kiwi Marijuana Prohibition.
Posted 2000-10-10 16:51:38 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! CNN Reports Europe Softening Line on Marijuana; UK Tories Quickly Abandon "Zero Tolerance." 3 Articles
Posted 2000-10-09 20:14:40 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! UK Conservative Party Reefer Madness Is A Political Disaster. The Times Are A’Changin’ – But Not Yet The London Times.
Posted 2000-10-05 18:50:10 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! Swiss to Legalize Possession. Canada Will Not Appeal Court Ruling Requiring Medical Marijuana.
Posted 2000-10-02 18:42:21 by Richard Cowan
The Clichés of Prohibitionism: "Sending the Wrong Message."
Posted 2000-09-20 18:35:56 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning: Jamaica To Establish National Commission On Ganja; Dutch, Germans and Swiss to Hold Conference in the Spring.
Posted 2000-09-15 18:52:52 by Richard Cowan
As New Zealand Prepares for Hearings on Marijuana, Two Opposing Press Releases Show the Difficulties in Ending Marijuana Prohibition.
Posted 2000-09-14 20:36:41 by Richard Cowan
Ralph Nader Joins New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson In Calling for Legalizing Marijuana. But Can Nader Bring the Left With Him? Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2000-09-12 19:32:17 by Richard Cowan
New Zealanders’ Analysis of the Consequences of the Violence of Marijuana Prohibition. Bravo!
Posted 2000-09-01 18:20:03 by Richard Cowan
Founder of New Zealand NORML Calls for Rational Debate of Marijuana Laws. But the Police Minister Is Irrational.
Posted 2000-08-24 18:27:45 by Richard Cowan
9th Annual Seattle Hempfest Is A Triumph For The Marijuana Resistance Movement.
Posted 2000-08-22 19:09:14 by Richard Cowan
DEAland Border Patrol Seized 500 Tons Of Marijuana at Mexican Border – 500 Times Seizures At BC Border. Putting the Canadian Marijuana Supply In Perspective.
Posted 2000-08-01 18:01:24 by Richard Cowan
Worst Provisions Of "Meth Bill" Killed In House Committee: A Turning Point in Drug War Mentality?
Posted 2000-07-26 18:12:31 by Richard Cowan
What Hath Breyer Wrought? The Debate Over the Medical Necessity Ruling. Analysis by Richard Cowan
Posted 2000-07-21 20:04:03 by Richard Cowan
Do New Zealand Educators Have Any Intellectual Standards? Is Their Ideology More Important Than Their Students? Weigh the Evidence. That Is More Than They Do.
Posted 2000-07-11 19:21:16 by Richard Cowan
Remarkable Statement By Jamaican Clergy Calling For Legalization of Ganja.
Posted 2000-07-10 19:58:52 by Richard Cowan
More Calls for Legalizing Cannabis Come from Influential Sources In Scotland and London. -- 2 Articles
Posted 2000-07-05 17:52:04 by Richard Cowan
Kubby Finishes Second in Close Race for Libertarian VP Nomination. Convention Speakers and Nominees Make Clear Libertarians Are The Anti-Prohibitionist Party. Special to MarijuanaNews
Posted 2000-07-03 17:46:16 by Richard Cowan
Data On Mexican Border Seizures Show That Talk About "BC Bud" Is Just More Prohibitionist Propaganda -- But the "Drug War" Is Really Aimed At Marijuana.
Posted 2000-06-30 19:14:12 by Richard Cowan
We Are Winning! Almost One Third In DEAland Now Support "Legalization" of Marijuana – 40% In The West. In the Face of the Massive Prohibitionist Propaganda Campaign and Spin Control in Polling.
Posted 2000-06-29 21:54:59 by Richard Cowan
Today Is "International Anti-Drug Day" – Really. And Top UN Nark Wants To Censor Internet. Anti-Prohibitionism Equated With Genocide. The Internet Community Needs To Wake Up!
Posted 2000-06-26 20:25:31 by Richard Cowan
Honest Journalism From New Zealand Tries to Deal With the Questions About Legalization That Apply Everywhere.
Posted 2000-06-20 20:50:27 by Richard Cowan
The Murder of Peter McWilliams -- An Indictment, Not an Obituary – by Richard Cowan
Posted 2000-06-16 23:04:22 by Richard Cowan
Giuliani’s Police State – Like the Marijuana Prohibition That He Loves – Is A Counterproductive Fraud. 3 Articles.
Posted 2000-06-15 20:22:29 by Richard Cowan
Quack Who Claims That Marijuana May Be More Dangerous Than Speed or Heroin Invited To Speak At Australian "Drugs Summit 2000." Medical, Political and Journalistic Malpractice. 2 Articles
Posted 2000-06-14 19:39:46 by Richard Cowan
How The War Really Works: Federal Funding Buys Constituencies. Prohibitionist Propaganda and Pork Barrels.
Posted 2000-06-07 19:00:05 by Richard Cowan
Wretched Excess: Kentucky Law Allows "Taxation" By Accusation. Article and Editorial.
Posted 2000-06-06 19:03:26 by Richard Cowan
Putting Drug War Criminals On Notice: "Just Following Orders" Is Not A Valid Defense, Especially When You Are Breaking the Law.
Posted 2000-05-30 20:01:34 by Richard Cowan
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