When President Obama comes to Oakland on July 23rd to raise money for his re-election campaign he will be greeted by a large number of protesters who support medical marijuana. Harborside Health Center, along with Americans For Safe Access, are organizing a protest against the Obama administration’s aggressive war against medical marijuana. The most recent [...]

An incredible three-fourths of American voters want President Obama to stop using federal resources to crack down on state medical marijuana programs, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll sponsored by the Marijuana Policy Project. Mason-Dixon 5/10-14 Do you feel President Obama should: (ORDER ROTATED) – Respect the medical marijuana laws in these states, or – [...]

Yesterday something historic happened. A sitting president and current candidate for the office stated his support for same-sex marriage. This is monumental because as little as ten years ago a president making such a statement was almost unthinkable. It was, after all, only 16 years ago that the Democratic President Bill Clinton signed the Defense [...]

While attending the White House Correspondents’ dinner Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to the Huffington Post that President Obama misled Rolling Stone about federal marijuana law. From the Huffington Post: Attorney General Eric Holder was a guest of The Huffington Post at the correspondents’ dinner. Before it began, a HuffPost reporter noted to Holder that [...]

With the total failure of the drug war causing many Latin American political leaders to publicly question the wisdom of prohibition, President Obama was forced to repeatedly address the issue this weekend at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. Unfortunately, Obama did his best to quickly dismiss the topic with incoherent excuses. From [...]