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The Hill Blog – Criminalization of Marijuana Must End
NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre is featured in a post on the influential blog, “The Hill”, a daily read for most of the politicians in Washington DC. Here’s a snippet: The Hill Blog» Blog Archive » Criminalization of Marijuana Must End Each year in this country we arrest more and more of our citizens [...]
Stash for Tue, Aug 5, 2008
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-08-05 Today we get to visit with Darrel Rogers from Schools Not Prisons PAC, an organization dedicated to electorally slaying the biggest Drug War dragon in the House, Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN). Then comedian Rob Cantrell (Last Comic Standing) visits with a preview of his show this Thursday [...]
Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer – DrugDealerCindy.com
Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer – DrugDealerCindy.com Our friend Mason Tvert and the good folks at SAFER have announced a new publicity campaign called “Drug Dealer Cindy”, which highlights the fact that Mrs. John McCain is a beer heiress guilty of pushing a drug more harmful than alcohol. I’d also like to add that Mrs. McCain [...]
Ohio officer acquitted of killing mom holding baby
Ohio officer acquitted of killing mom holding baby – Yahoo! News LIMA, Ohio – A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black. The all-white jury found Sgt. [...]
Efforts to eradicate marijuana a positive for community
Efforts to eradicate marijuana a positive for community Officers take to the skies near the end of every summer and search some of [West Virginia's] most remote areas looking for fields where local ne’er-do-wells grow fields of marijuana. The effort by law enforcement results in the destruction of numerous plots of the plant. We applaud [...]
Trial of marijuana dispensary owner goes to jury
Trial of marijuana dispensary owner goes to jury – Los Angeles Times A closely watched trial involving conflicting marijuana laws went to a federal court jury Monday, with jurors asked to determine if the owner of a Morro Bay pot dispensary is guilty of violating federal drug laws. During a week-and-a-half-long trial in U.S. District [...]
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on HR5843
FOXNews.com – Lawmakers Propose to Legalize Marijuana – America’s Election HQ CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TX), SUPPORTER OF THE PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA: Well, my aim is always to promote freedom and the constitution, and an issue like this is just – has no value to have the federal police going out and trying to find [...]
Update on DEA / Blackwater story
Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines » Blog Archive » DEA claims agent is not Blackwater employee I was able to speak today with Tami Abdollah, the Los Angeles Times (LAT) reporter who wrote the article associated with the photo of the agent wearing a Blackwater t-shirt. First, Abdollah explained that at the time of [...]
Stash for Mon, Aug 4, 2008
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-08-04 Today’s Stash features part three of my interview with Wendy Chapkis, Richard Webb, and Valerie Corral on the book “Dying to Get High”, which chronicles medical marijuana in California from Prop 215 through the advent of Corral’s WAMM collective (Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana). Catch up with [...]
Music: Don Nix – “One Step Ahead of the Blues”
Welcome to Blue Monday, Stashers. We have some great blues today from artist, DON NIX and his guitar-heavy rock and roll blues song, “One Step Ahead of the Blues”. Don is a writer, producer and kick-ass blues man whose music has been recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Lee Hooker, Deep Purple and Pearl Jam. [...]