I swear I’ve heard this before. “If this thing enters Egypt, the country is going to go to waste. God protect us,”
via The Associated Press: Egyptian lawmakers want to ban fake hymen. (no, I’m not kidding)
HT: Radley Balko
I hope your holiday season is filled with peace, cheer, and smoke. Celebrate with friends and family. Share your greenery and Christmas cheer. Remember that they can cage our bodies but they can never cage our minds. Peace.
A Colbert Christmas: Willie Nelson Sings
Willie Nelson tells the story of a plant that smokes more sweetly than [...]
Two men will spend a combined 41 years in prison for providing medicine to the sick and dying. You would have to be a very disturbed individual to find this outcome “justice.” Two lives ruined and countless others are left without the legal medicine they need to survive.
American’s have spoken and they don’t think humans should be caged for marijuana. In fact the victories that cannabis law reform saw had higher margins of victory than Barack Obama.
Michigan’s medical marijuana referendum passed 63% to 37%.
Massachusetts decriminalizes possession of up to one ounce of cannabis 65% to 35%.
Fayetteville, AR, home to the University [...]
I think the institution called government is broken by its very nature. No man has moral authority over any other man. I think natural laws rule the physical world as well as our interactions with each other and the choices we make.
I have a friend that spent four days in jail in 1996 when a nutritional suplement tested positive for heroin. His attorney’s fees totalled nearly $10,000. All charges were dropped. The problem persists:
For decades law enforcement agencies including local police, DEA and U.S. Customs have used what is known as “presumptive field drug-test” kits to [...]
Radley Balko has a great article up on Slate. Before you go pulling the lever for Obama, thinking he’ll bring change to drug policing think again. His selection of Drug Warrior Biden confirmed for me that Obama’s prior commitment to decriminalization was just political pandering to his left-wing base. To win this election Obama/Biden have [...]
From KNBC via Stop the Drug War:
In Los Angeles, a former Long Beach police officer was sentenced Monday to eight years and one month in federal prison for participating in a series of home invasion robberies staged to look like legitimate drug raids. Joseph Ferguson, 33, was convicted of three counts in January, including possession [...]
I blogged a few days ago about Brittany Zimmermann, the young lady who was murdered after a 911 operator failed to follow up on her distress call. Unfortunately, she fell victim to the misconception that government is here to help you. I regret not mentioning Brittany’s name in my first post. Victims of tyranny and [...]
It only took a few weeks but I’ve already scooped the New York Times in my coverage of the lead tainted cannabis in Germany. The NYT article is worth reading, even though it is old news by now. Yeah, me!
