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The Big Hurt: This week in image problems

Poor Biebs. He just wants to be the wholesome kid next door, but with his 18th birthday creeping up, America's youth-stealing culture just can't wait to liquor him up and lay him.
Bieber's adulthood, Manson and Trent's arson, Snoop's weed, Adele's weight, and Jay-Z and Beyoncé's baby
By DAVID THORPE | January 20, 2012

Medical marijuana 2.0

The medical marijuana movement has always had to be nimble.
In a tough political environment, the movement weighs a tricky reinvention
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 13, 2012

In the Phoenix; and Chafee on Civil Disobedience

I've got a cover story in today's Phoenix about Rhode Island's tricky shift to what I call Medical Marijuana 2.0.After a threatened federal crackdown, Governor...
By David Scharfenberg | January 12, 2012

Barfield and the bong

Any resemblance to real cartoon cats, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Failure
By KARL STEVENS | December 30, 2011

On reclassifying marijuana

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee and Washington Governor Chris Gregoire announced today that they have filed a petition with the Drug Enforcement Agency asking for...
By David Scharfenberg | November 30, 2011

Chafee Sent Signals on Medical Marijuana

Lincoln Chafee's announcement yesterday that he would refuse to license three medical marijuana dispensaries hit pot activists hard. But it was not unexpected. Some quick...
By David Scharfenberg | September 30, 2011

How To Grow Pot In Your Dorm Room

First things first: If you follow the instructions below, you are an idiot who is risking fines, imprisonment, getting kicked out of school, and worse.
Time to make the nuggets
By ROY BLUNT JR. | September 30, 2011

The Adventures of Captain Hub

And his adorable fuzzy sidekick, Super Quill.
Failure
By KARL STEVENS | September 30, 2011

Photos: Freedom Rally 2011 at Boston Common

Mass Cann/NORML's annual Freedom Rally comes to the Boston Common on September 17, 2011.
Mass Cann/NORML's annual Freedom Rally | September 17, 2011
By K. BONAMI | September 23, 2011

Photos: Tree play the 22nd Annual Freedom Rally

Tree play the Freedom Rally main stage on September 17, 2011.
Boston Common | September 17, 2011
By ARIEL SHEARER | September 23, 2011

Rolling Rally

It would have been impossible — or at least boneheaded — to print this sort of treasure map a few years ago.
Make the most of your freedom
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 16, 2011

Green light for Maine’s biggest dispensary company

It'll be a while before Portlanders with doctor's orders for medical marijuana have a local dispensary, but Northeast Patients Group may open its first facility in Thomaston in the next couple of weeks.
Marijuana Watch
By JEFF INGLIS | September 02, 2011

Chafee’s number

This week, we continue with a running feature, the Gubernatorial Scorecard. Every so often, we'll rate Lincoln Chafee from 1 to 10 on both the politics and substance of his most recent maneuverings.
Gubernatorial Scorecard
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | July 29, 2011

Portland’s medical-pot prognosis: Keep patients waiting

The bloom is off the buds, that's for sure.
Stoned-walling
By DEIRDRE FULTON | July 22, 2011

Christie Moves on Medical Marijuana. Is Chafee Next?

Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, was among a handful of governors nationwide who backed off their states' medical marijuana programs for a...
By David Scharfenberg | July 19, 2011

Up in smoke?

Ten months after President Obama took office, his Justice Department issued a remarkable directive.
Obama is threatening a medical marijuana crackdown in Rhode Island and across the country. Should Governor Chafee call his bluff?
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | July 15, 2011

Are Civil (Liberties) Unions America's Best Hope?

Ron Paul and Barney Frank make odd bedfellows, but one hopes theirs is more than a one-night-stand.
Freedom Watch
By HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE AND DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ | July 15, 2011

Calling the Bluff?

I'll have a piece in tomorrow's Phoenix about the state of Rhode Island's "compassion center" program. The Obama Administration has warned officials here and across the country...
By David Scharfenberg | July 13, 2011

Higher education, with joint enrollment

When he's teaching pot-growing classes at places like the Ramada convention center in Saco, Ray Logan doesn't use actual marijuana plants for demonstration — he substitutes basil or pepper plants, whatever's available that day from High Tech Garden Suppl
Summer school
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 17, 2011

Holder Skates Around Medical Marijuana Issue

Attorney General Eric Holder is in town today, hosted by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. And a brief press conference at the Institutue for the Study and...
By David Scharfenberg | June 02, 2011

Obama's medical marijuana crackdown

Rhode Island's medical marijuana community took another hit this week — only this time it didn't result in any healing.
Weed Dept.
By DANIEL MCGOWAN | May 06, 2011

Pot legalization bill release set for tomorrow at 10 am

Representative Diane Russell, a Democrat from Portland, will release An Act to Legalize and Tax Marijuana at Portland City Hall at 10 am tomorrow. The...
By Deirdre Fulton | April 19, 2011

Weapons in the War for Drugs

Weapons in the War for Drugs: A dispatch from the Marijuana Unit.
Big Fat Whale
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | April 15, 2011

Estrogen influx for pot protesters

For years, MassCann has been something of a gentleman's club, trying to legalize pot in Massachusetts with limited success. But the March 19 board election brought a dramatic change.
Tokin' females
By ARIEL SHEARER | April 15, 2011

Pot in Portsmouth

Call it the triumph of good ol' Rhody provincialism. The Rhode Island Department of Health has selected three applicants to open medical marijuana dispensaries, or...
By David Scharfenberg | March 15, 2011

Smoke Local

Lobsters, blueberries, potatoes, and . . . pot? As Maine's medical-marijuana program inches closer to business-as-usual, weed is on the verge of becoming a meaningful part of the state's economy — a budding piece of Maine's local, sustainable, pro-agricu
Where will marijuana fit into Maine's economy?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 18, 2011

Reefer medness

In the five years since the General Assembly approved Rhode Island's medical marijuana law, licensed smokers have operated in a sort of smoke-filled netherworld.
For five years, Rhode Island's medical marijuana movement has been a grassroots affair. For better or worse, it's about to go mainstream
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | February 11, 2011

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