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March 3rd, 2009
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Only the U.S. can win war on drugs
Seventy-five years after its repeal, Prohibition remains instructive. Like the 13-year ban on alcohol, the illegality of drugs failed to curb demand. Like the bootleggers and gangsterism of that era, today’s drug cartels are simply serving popular demand. As with the repeal of Prohibition, the U.S. must again follow a common-sense approach by thinking the [...]
The Judge Who Ruled Marijuana is Medicine
Most drug-policy-reform advocates know the name of Judge Francis Young and many can quote a line from his 1988 recommendation that the DEA remove marijuana from Schedule One: “Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” Few if any activists know the name of Judge James A. Washington. And whereas Judge [...]
Legalize Drugs Instead of Banning Guns
The Times’ solution to the problem? Here it is: “There should be enormous shame on this side of the border that America’s addiction to drugs is bolstered by its feckless gun controls. Firm federal law is urgently needed if the homicidal cartels are to be seriously challenged as a threat to national security.” So, there [...]
Will the Obama administration put justice back in the criminal justice system?
With one in 31 Americans now under some form of correctional supervision, mass incarceration is hitting closer to home for urban, suburban and rural residents who never envisioned family members would one day be locked away in remote prisons. Some have even been shipped off to other states. (Out-of-state transfers are routine in the federal [...]
Stash for Tue, Mar 3, 2009
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-03-03 Today on the Stash: Hemp Headlines: NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up Study Links Alcohol, Cancer Risk in Women House Bill Expected on FDA Control of Tobacco Stupid Stoner Story: Man accused of stuffing cat into bong Government at Work: Dan Linn from Illinois NORML and Jesse Stout from [...]
Music: Variety Tuesday – ‘And I Smoke’ by Oai Star
It’s Variety Tuesday and today’s Toker Tune from the Global Marijuana Music Awards is ‘And I Smoke’ by Oai Star from France. This great rock group was born in 1992, out of the famous Marseilles ragga band, Massilia Sound System. Oai Star writes songs about popular themes of tolerance. Their music encourages people to take [...]
Glenn Beck: “Put people smoking marijuana behind bars or legalize it!”
Uhhhh… I’m listening to Glenn Beck… watching FOX News… and everything being said about the harms of marijuana being attributable to its prohibition is making perfect sense. Calendar… March 3rd… OK, not April Fools Day… check. Hidden cameras? Is this some reality show trying to catch my reaction as my head explodes? No, no cameras [...]
“Obama, You’re No Stranger to the Bong”
Ah, those crazy hippies … via – Reason Magazine “Obama, You’re No Stranger to the Bong: An open letter to the president”
Medical Users Just Want to Get High
“It seems like it’s a lot less of a negative thing now,” said Tom Wiggins Jr., administrator for Inland Empire Cannabis Consultants of Temecula. The trend worries a local anti-drug organization. “Yes, we remain concerned that a pro-drug movement is afoot in the Inland Empire,” Roger Anderson, parent coalition chairman of the Inland Valley Drug [...]
Iowa medical marijuana bill SF293 introduced
Senate File 293 An Act creating the medical marijuana Act including the creation of compassion centers, and providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees. All right, Iowans, it’s time to get on those phones and start calling your reps. (That sound you hear in the distance is Stasher RevRayGreen hootin’ and a-hollerin’) We’ll have [...]