Saying No to Costly Drug Laws By ALEKSANDER KWAŚNIEWSKI May 10, 2012 WARSAW — In the year 2000, as the president of Poland, I signed one of Europe’s most conservative laws on drug possession. Any amount of illicit substances a person possessed meant they were eligible for up to three years in prison. Our hope … Read more »

President Barack Obama has turned out to be a real buzzkill. Back when he was running in 2008, Obama said he supported the “basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs” and that he was “not going to be using Justice Department resources to try … Read more »

AMSTERDAM — Dutch coffee shop owners went to court Wednesday in a last ditch bid to block a government plan to stop foreigners from buying marijuana in the Netherlands. Lawyers representing the coffee shops oppose what would be the most significant change in decades to the country’s famed soft drug tolerance: turning marijuana cafes into … Read more »

A small Spanish town in the backwoods of Catalunya voted yesterday by a narrow but clear majority to create one of Europe’s largest legal marijuana plantations – and thereby hopefully watch its massive municipal debt go up in smoke. According to Spanish news agency EFE, 56.3 per cent of voters in the referendum in the … Read more »

A number of California winemakers are secretly producing wines laced with cannabis, with Cabernet Sauvignon the grape variety of choice for the blend. “Pot wine is increasingly fashionable in wine country – much of the marijuana used for the wine comes from California’s weed capital Humboldt County,” Crane Carter, president of the Napa Valley Marijuana … Read more »