Rise Of The Police State: “Commando Cops” Proliferating in the US

More SWAT teams exist than ever and the line between police officer and soldier is becoming more obscured.

Les Neuhaus
作者 Les Neuhaus
Police break up demonstrators at the end of their march through the streets of Chicago to protest the NATO Summit taking place in the city on May 20, 2012. (Photo Norbert Schiller/MintPress New)

The combination of a post-9/11 America and a government bent on prosecuting a war on drugs has not only expanded law enforcement powers in recent years, it's created a new breed of police officer -- commando-cops. Now the police officers and sheriff deputies are armed with a grade of equipment previously reserved for the military, such as

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Report: State Marijuana Laws Found To Comply With Federal Guidelines

The DOJ has “acted in bad faith in its policy to defer to local law enforcement,” the medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access says.

Katie Rucke
作者 Katie Rucke

Although 37 percent of the U.S. population currently lives in a state where medical marijuana is legal, and there are more than a million Americans legally using medical marijuana, the federal government has continued to prosecute medical marijuana businesses and patients across the country. On Monday, the medical marijuana advocacy group

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