13 August 2014 By Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent Norman Baker will say in a letter to Jeremy Hunt that cannabis would help relieve symptoms of a range of medical conditions

May 21st, 2014 By Timothy Alexander Guzman* The first country to defy the ‘War on Drugs’ by legalizing marijuana is Uruguay. It was described as a revolutionary act against the prohibition of a plant that is used by millions worldwide under the former Marxist guerilla and political prisoner who is now the President of Uruguay […]

By Tina Griego 30 July 2014 In these, the curious, infant days of the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana, of shiny dispensaries and touch-screen ordering and suburban parties where joints are passed like appetizers over granite countertops, no one would notice the duplex. Plain brick, patchy grass behind chain link, it appears weary, resigned to […]

August 6, 2014 Austrian cannabis activists have started a parliamentary initiative to legalize cannabis in Austria on Wednesday. Initiated by „Legalize! Oesterreich“ and supported by the Hemp Institute, Austrian voters can now sign an online initiative on the website of the Austrian parliament which is obliged to discuss the matter.

The party also wants to increase the use of medicinal cannabis in the national health sector 4 August 2014

By LAWRENCE DOWNES AUG. 2, 2014 In January, Colorado defied the federal government and stepped with both feet into the world of legal recreational marijuana, where no state had gone before.

The war on drugs has become a war on occasional pot smokers of color 31 July 2014 Marijuana arrests now account for 52% of all drug arrests in the US – and 88% of them are for simple possession, like the charge that cost DeMarcus Sanders his job and college credit.

March 2, 2014 By William Engdahl

July 28, 2014 By Paul Craig Roberts The extraordinary propaganda being conducted against Russia by the US and UK governments and Ministries of Propaganda, a.k.a., the “Western media,” have the purpose of driving the world to war that no one can win. European governments need to rouse themselves from insouciance, because Europe will be the […]

28 July 2014 By: Foundation for European Progressive Studies