New data released from the United States Border Patrol shows that marijuana seizures along the border have fallen to their lowest level in a decade, indicating that the illegal supply of cannabis coming from Mexico into the U.S. is on the decline. So what happened? Why would the cartels be sending less marijuana into the…
Voters in Massachusetts are set to decide on the legalization of cannabis for recreational purposes this fall, prompting the state’s governor, attorney general, and the mayor of Boston to come out against the idea in a recent op-ed for The Boston Globe. While it’s unlikely these officials actually wrote the op-ed – the real author is…
Michael Bastasch Republican lawmakers have subpoenaed the Obama administration demanding information regarding the Gold King Mine blowout that contaminated rivers with millions of gallons of mine waste. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans subpoenaed the Department of the Interior and Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday night, demanding records related to the Corp’s peer review of the government’s technical evaluation…
by Casey Harper A college in Colorado has decided to cancel an entire donor program rather than allow Bible references in its football locker room. Former college football player Michael Lucas donated $2,500 in 2015 to his alma mater Colorado School of Mines. As part of the school’s donor program, it allowed donors to put a message on a plaque to…
It’s been a little over two years since retail marijuana sales began in Colorado and guess what? Legalization looks pretty much the way activists have been saying it would. Catastrophe has not ensued! Of course less people are going to jail for weed; that’s a given. On top of that, a ton of economic activity…
JP Carroll The legalization of marijuana production in certain U.S. states is hitting Mexican farmers hard, and taxing the massive, near omnipotent drug cartels south of the border. A Mexican farmer used to earn $100 per kilo of marijuana and now earns $30 per kilo, according to the Los Angeles Times. Production in Mexico has decreased…
Guy Bentley Marijuana use among high school students has remained flat despite the implementation of a series of legalization measures across the country, new data show. The Monitoring the Future Survey, released Wednesday, showed there has not been any significant change in marijuana prevalence this year across 8th, 10th and 12th graders, with each group…
“Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this.” These, ladies and gentlemen, are the words of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, spoken last night in the…
by Sarah Gompper The case Charlie Craig and David Mullins v. Masterpiece Cakeshop was decided by the Colorado Court of Appeals on August 13th in favor of Craig and Mullins. As previously reported, the couple was denied service for their same-sex wedding in 2012 by Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop. Colorado state law says…
DENVER, CO–In possibly the most blatant case of the pot calling the kettle black, Sheriff Tom Allman warned what the legalization of pot could lead to in Colorado last year. “Thugs put on masks, they come to your house, they kick in your door. They point guns at you and say, ‘Give me your marijuana,…