Vancouver Sun
In 1991, an editorial in the British Journal of Addiction condemned the inordinate amount of resources devoted to drug law enforcement, and compared the war on drugs to the witch hunts of the past.
It’s an apt comparison, since drug warriors around the world are influenced more by myths, stereotypes and propaganda than by solid [...]
Would enable patients to get medical marijuana
Nancy Krause
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – A bill that would allow nonprofit stores in Rhode Island to sell marijuana to medical patients is headed to the governor’s desk. The state Senate passed the bill Tuesday afternoon by a 30-2 margin.
The bill has already passed the House and now heads to [...]
WASHINGTON – Rep. John Murtha steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the company.
Records filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh starting in 2005 raise questions about whether the government ever [...]
By GARY FIELDS
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting “a war on drugs,” a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.
In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House [...]
By Frosty Wooldridge
In 1836, legends Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis, along with 180 fearless men, fought Santa Anna’s two thousand Mexican troops at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. No contest! Santa Anna killed every last one of those brave men. Six weeks later, with a cry of “Remember the Alamo”, Texans beat [...]
Source: Washington Examiner
Drug-addicted veterans are being injected with cocaine by researchers at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in taxpayer-funded studies, The Examiner has learned.
The study subjects are being given the injections as part of a search for medicines that researchers hope will block cocaine absorption in the body, said Timothy O’Leary, the VA’s acting [...]
Texas Republican Ron Paul, along with ten co-sponsors, is once again seeking to allow for the commercial farming of industrial hemp.
House Bill 1866, The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, would exclude low potency varieties of marijuana from federal prohibition. If approved, this measure will grant state legislatures the authority to license and regulate the [...]
Decriminalizing the possession and use of marijuana would raise billions in taxes and eliminate much of the profits that fuel bloodshed and violence in Mexico.
By STEVEN B. DUKE WSJ
The drug-fueled murders and mayhem in Mexico bring to mind the Prohibition-era killings in Chicago. Although the Mexican violence dwarfs the bloodshed of the old bootleggers, both [...]
by Kevin Carson CSS
If it had been dreamed up by Satan himself in the bowels of Hell, the War on Drugs couldn’t be more diabolically calculated to destroy our liberties and promote the cause of evil in the world.
In the Netherlands, where marijuana is (de facto) legal, and most hard drugs are virtually decriminalized and [...]
Children calling the Government’s drugs helpline are being told that cannabis is safer than alcohol and that ecstasy will not damage their health, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found.
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By Julie Henry, David Barrett and Alex Ralph
Advisers manning the ?Frank? anti-drug helpline are telling children cannabis is [...]
By CRAIG MURRAY
This week the 64th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, Corporal Mike Gilyeat, was buried. All the right things were said about this brave soldier, just as, on current trends, they will be said about one or more of his colleagues who follow him next week.
The alarming escalation of the casualty rate among [...]
Hemp Bill Introduced In Congress
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The railroading will be televised
UPDATE (at bottom): NORML donations skyrocket after Obama comments
Lately, it seems the ‘War on Drugs’ debate has been everywhere. And to think, the volume on this discussion was turned up 10 notches by a troublesome Olympian who was photographed with his mouth to a water-pipe.
Then came the California legalization bill, news [...]
We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can’t get high from it. So why is it still illegal?
While Uncle Sam’s scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate — to legalize and tax, or not? — hemp’s feasibility as a stimulus plan has [...]
GVSU student, Derek Copp, shot in chest by police for smoking marijuana: Executing children for the War on Drugs (Update 3)
Update 3: Mom: shot GVSU son ‘never had chance’
Update 2: Police discuss GVSU shooting
Update: GVSU students protest shooting of Derek Copp, hold ‘Why was our friend shot’ signs – ” A friend of Derek [...]
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — When the planes arrived loaded with cocaine, it was Guinea’s presidential guard that secured the cargo.
Drug deals were conducted inside the first lady’s private residence and in the president’s VIP salon at the international airport. To avoid detection, cocaine was sent to Europe in the country’s diplomatic pouch.
As the people of [...]
Submitted legislation would impose $98-per-ounce tax on cannabis
Stephen C. Webster Raw Story
In most states, the issue of medical marijuana is not on any legislative docket.
In Oregon however, a state which already allows medical marijuana, socializing the weed is being pitched as a bipartisan cause célèbre.
Maybe socializing is the wrong word.
“House Bill 3247 would direct [...]
When it comes to foreign affairs, Americans are used to debating progress or setbacks in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or on the Israeli invasion last month of the Gaza Strip.
We’re used to thinking about death and destruction thousands of miles from home and, as a result, tend to debate these matters based more [...]
02-26) 20:00 PST San Francisco — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
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Three administrators at Porter Middle School in Granada Hills have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student, according to authorities.
Los Angeles Police Department officers are investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrators who orchestrated and knew of the sting, which [...]
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