DEA Says Illegal Pot Farms Are Siphoning Off San Diego County Water December 11, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments About 72 million gallons of water were used to irrigate San Diego County’s thirsty and illegal marijuana operations, enough to serve 440 families for a year, and that’s only for the ones that were found. Law enforcement officials made that… Read More→
Some Members of Congress Want the DEA to Back Off Marijuana Enforcement November 30, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration is not having a great year. The chief of the agency stepped down in April under a cloud of scandal. The acting administrator since then has courted ridicule for saying pot is "probably not" as dangerous… Read More→
Marijuana Advocates Want White House to Fire DEA Chief November 11, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg is facing pressure from pot advocates to step down after he called medical marijuana a “joke.” Nearly 10,000 medical marijuana supporters have signed a petition calling for Rosenberg to be replaced with a more… Read More→
America’s Cops See Marijuana as the Least of Their Worries November 6, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments America's cops overwhelmingly do not see marijuana as a major threat to their communities, according to results of a survey released this week as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's "2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary." The DEA asked a nationally-representative… Read More→
DEA Chief Says That Marijuana-as-Medicine Is a “Joke” November 5, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg on Wednesday rejected the notion that smoking marijuana is "medicine," calling the premise a "joke." "What really bothers me is the notion that marijuana is also medicinal -- because it's not," Rosenberg said in a briefing… Read More→
Federal Court Tells the DEA to Stop Harassing Medical Marijuana Providers October 20, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights, Policy & Legal, Uncategorized 0 Comments In a scathing decision, a federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration's interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill "defies language and logic," "tortures the plain meaning of the statute" and is "at odds with fundamental notions… Read More→
Taxpayers Paying $60 for Every Pot Plant the DEA Destroys in Oregon September 25, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration spent $960,000 to destroy marijuana plants in that state in 2014 as part of its "Cannabis Eradication Program," according to a recent report by NBC affiliate KGW in Portland, Ore. That year, the DEA succeeded in removing 16,067… Read More→
It’s Official: DEA Head Admits Marijuana Is Much Safer Than Heroin August 6, 2015 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments It's official: the U.S. government's top drug cop has acknowledged that marijuana is less dangerous than heroin. At a meeting with reporters yesterday at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration, acting chief Chuck Rosenberg said that "heroin is clearly more dangerous than… Read More→
Marijuana Advocates Lobbying for New Cannabis-Friendly DEA Chief April 22, 2015 John Hollon News & Insights 0 Comments Marijuana advocates hope the departure of the longtime chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will pave the way for more relaxed drug policies from the Obama administration. Michele Leonhart, who has served atop the DEA since 2007, will resign… Read More→