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The Big Lobbyist Battle For Medical Reefer in New York Begins

New York has had the whole medical marijuana conversation for a while (end result: fail) and legalizing marijuana, if only for medical purposes, has its twists and turns here. Even with the roll back of the draconian Rockefeller drug laws by Cuomo, being the world capital of weed arrests sure doesn' ... More >>

Marijuana Is Now Legal in Colorado and Washington, So Here's a Recipe

Yesterday really was a two-hit Tuesday. Following the reelection of President Obama, Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 -- the act that aims to legalize the recreational use of marijuana by adults -- shortly after the election results were announced. Washington residents also voted "yes," legaliz ... More >>

Bath Salts Now Banned In New York; A Sad Day For Face-Eating Cannibals

There's good news today for anyone who doesn't want their face chewed off by some bath-salt fueled cannibal: bath salts are now officially illegal in New York.Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced that the New York State Department of Health has issued new regulations to crack down on bath-salt abuse ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Can It Treat Diarrhea?

Well then. We're not sure how accurate this item is, but it's interesting reading, to say that least: The Weed Blog claims that medical marijuana might be good for treating the runs.

Medical Marijuana: New Jersey Grows Prescription Pot!

Several days after a New Jersey lawmaker called on his fellow politicians to explain delays in prescription pot dispensary development, a report indicates that marijuana is being grown in the state. The state's first legal cannabis crop in generations has been growing hydroponically, in a warehouse ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Will Massachusetts Voters OK Weed?

Last week, we reported on Massachusetts medical marijuana advocates' move to gather enough signatures to put prescription pot on November's ballot. Now, it looks like Mass voters will def vote on weed.

Zombie Apocalypse: PETA Exploits Texas Dog-Eater To Push Vegan Agenda

As the rest of us try to cope with the impending Zombie Apocalypse, the animal rights group PETA is using the latest case of potential zombie-ism to push its Vegan agenda.As we reported earlier this week, a Texas man was arrested near Waco on Monday after police say he ate the family dog -- after cr ... More >>

Zombie Apocalypse: Texas Man Eats Family Dog After Smoking Fake Weed

Straight from the "what the fuck" files, we bring you the latest yarn from the ongoing Zombie Apocalypse. Today's installment comes from the great state of Texas, where police say a man ate the family dog after smoking synthetic marijuana.Go ahead and let that sink in for a minute.Michael Daniel, 22 ... More >>

Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia To Lead 6,000-Mile March In Protest Of "Failed" War On Drugs

Mexican poet Javier Sicilia's 24-year-old son was killed last year in what is described as "prohibition-related violence" -- he was brutally murdered by drug cartels in their fight against the country's government. The death of his son forced the 55-year-old poet to realize that his story is not uni ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Six)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decrim ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Five)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decrim ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Four)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decrim ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Three)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decriminal ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part Two)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which (supposedly) decrim ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Systematically Screwed By "Public View" Marijuana Law. These Are Their Stories (Part One)

In an effort to persuade New York lawmakers to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to decriminalize "public view" marijuana arrests, a drug policy group has started a video campaign to illustrate how people are getting screwed by a loophole in the Marijuana Reform Act, which supposedly decriminaliz ... More >>

Drug Fans: More Teens Smoke Weed Than Cigarettes; The War On Drugs Has Failed

A study released yesterday shows evidence of something most of us already know: teenagers like smoking weed. However, the study shows that teens apparently like smoking weed significantly more now than they did two years ago. Meanwhile, teens abusing other -- government regulated -- drugs is on the ... More >>

New York City Really Has a Thing for Pain Pills

Not too long after data came out questioning whether America might be addicted to painkillers, additional details have been released about New York City's pill popping. From 2008 to 2010, prescriptions for opioid analgesics surged 22 percent, according to The Associated Press (via CBS). What's s ... More >>

Good News, Brooklyn Stoners: DA Offers Get Out Of Jail Free Card For Marijuana Possession Arrests

Stoners, rejoice: if you currently have a warrant for your arrest after you failed to show up to court to answer for that pesky possession of marijuana charge, you're in luck -- Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes says if you turn yourself in this Friday, the charges will be dropped.Additionall ... More >>

Ceferino 'Papo' Perez, Cocaine Kingpin and Photoshop Aficionado, Gets 20 Years to Life

Recall Ceferino "Papo" Perez? He's that humble East Harlem coke king who Photoshopped his pic on top of Al Pacino's photo in a Scarface movie poster -- and displayed the masterpiece on his nightstand(!) Perez, 45, pleaded guilty this month to mastermining a massive cocaine ring, which got busted ... More >>

Harrison David, Columbia Dealer in Operation Ivy League, Gets Six Months for Guilty Plea

​One of the drug dealing frat boys busted at Columbia University late last year pleaded guilty today to the criminal sale of a controlled substance, accepting felony charges in exchange for light sentencing. Now he's off with just six months in jail and five years probation, though the felony ... More >>

Nat Hentoff Notes Methadone Success, Less Interested in Seeing Heroin Legalized

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 17, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 7 Dealing with heroin now: how to begin By Nat Hentoff Before methadone gave significant reason for hope in counteracting heroin addiction, I was very much in favor of legalizing heroin under knowledg ... More >>

YouTube Stoners Calling For Obama To Answer "Burning" Questions

Ya dig?​YouTube is now taking submissions for its second annual "Ask Obama" online town hall meeting. Naturally, marijuana legalization advocates have spammed the YouTube channel with questions about their favorite pastime and the "world saving herb." On Thursday, at 2:30 p.m., some of the top ... More >>

Free Weed for Food Donations in California; New York State Fires Kosher Food Inspectors

​The Granny Purps, a medical marijuana dispensary in California, gave patients free joints for every four cans of food they donated, with a maximum of three a day. Some 11,000 pounds of food were collected. [NPR] A look at the PepsiCo Science Park in New Haven reveals an earnest effort to fin ... More >>

Columbia University Frat-Boy Drug Ring Busted!

​Eight people -- including five Columbia University undergrads, one of whom was the student council vice president -- were arrested this morning in a police raid, prosecutors have announced. The students are accused of peddling drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and pot) at campus dorms and f ... More >>

Murder Stats Say Drugs Really Will Kill You

​If you had any doubt that drugs are dangerous, the Daily News wants you to think again: The paper crunched some crime statistic numbers and found that drugs were a factor in more than half of the city's slayings, and the exclusive motive in 12 percent of New York homicides. More fun murder s ... More >>

Dear California: Please Legalize Marijuana. For America.

​Dear California - Tomorrow, you vote on Proposition 19, which is an opportunity to legalize Marijuana in California. Right now, the referendum's prospects don't look great, as it's currently polling seven points under being voted into law. You've got to pass this thing (to the left). Not jus ... More >>

Attorney General Eric Holder to California Hippies: Weed Bill is a No-Go

​Obama enforcer Attorney General Eric Holder says he doesn't care how Californians vote when it comes to November's Proposition 19, which stands to legalize marijuana in the state, because he's still going to arrest them. Ex-officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration wrote to Hold ... More >>

Crack Dealing 12 Year-Old Girl Star of Massive Action Packed Queens Crack Ring Bust

​Sometimes, life really does imitate TV. Especially if you're a fan of The Wire. For example, 43 people were arrested today in a crack ring bust in Far Rockaway, Queens. One of them was a 12 year-old girl, who was selling crack -- yes: crack -- for the drug ring.

Medical Marijuana: What Next?

via Wikipedia​If medical marijuana becomes legalized in New York, then what next? Free cocaine for any anxious mess who manages to manipulate a prescription for it?

Jerry Rubin Raided, Busted!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 20, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 36 Summer's a Bummer When the Heat's On by Don McNeill Summer comes on Friday and, true to all predictions, it's getting hot on the Lower East Side. The summer heat fills the streets. At night, in the far ... More >>

Bummer, Man: LBJ Getting Serious About This Narc Thing

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 14, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 22 Lining Up the Big Guns; Crackdown on the Way? by Don McNeill A paranoid might observe the proposed increase in federal penalties for the manufacture and sale of LSD, the proposed consolidation of all f ... More >>

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Poll: New Yorkers Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana

The new Quinnipiac poll doesn't have too many surprises -- voters still think the state is being run into the ground, don't want new taxes, etc. -- but it does contain this novel question: Do voters think legalizing medical marijuana -- which is before the state senate now, though it keeps getting n ... More >>

News Roundup: The Sonic Youth Gossip Girl Single, Clipse Manager Pleads Guilty, Arthur Russell at NYU

​--That Sonic Youth Gossip Girl cameo is approaching, and since SY evidently take this responsibility very seriously, they're releasing a single of their performance on the show--an acoustic version of EVOL's "Star Power" is the word--on Tuesday, October 13, the day after the show airs. It wil ... More >>

The Dragon Lady Runs for D.A.

Ex-judge Leslie Crocker Snyder wants to talk about everything except her law firm

The Acid Test

At an Indiana lab, better thinking through chemistry

Hiphop Takes Stock in 'Drop the Rock'

Coalition Sets Deadline for Repealing Rockefeller Drug Laws

Letters

Kind Bud

Uncle Sam's Medical Pot Project Is Light on Research, Heavy on Compassion

Bush's War on Youth

Shrub Yanks Student Aid for Drug Offenders

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

Letters

Dope Education

Pupils Purchase Pills, Powders, Pot

Heroin Hassles

Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

Higher and Higher

Drug Cocktails— Pleasures, Risks, and Reasons

Busted in the Tunnel

The View From Gatien's Camp

Splendor in the Grass

Medical Marijuana

Rod Sorge

1968-1999

Hemp and Circumstance

Family Day Values Uproot the Weed in Washington Square