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“Legalization” not in Drug Czar’s vocabulary, because it legally cannot be there
From the ever-knowledgable Wikipedia (emphasis mine): By law, the drug czar must oppose any attempt to legalize the use (in any form) of illicit drugs. According to the “Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998″ the director of the ONDCP (12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of [...]
Dictionaries for Drug Czar Kerlikowske
Stasher Jillian has been posting this idea in the Fresh Stash and I’ve seen others elsewhere mention it, too. Remember this statement from our Drug Czar that “legalization” is not in the president’s vocabulary, nor in his own? I had written, “Somebody get Barack and Gil a dictionary!” as a joke, but Jillian took it [...]
Workin’ at NORML: We Get Calls…
I just got off the phone with a delightful older lady in Nevada. She had called our Washington DC office and they referred her to me. I had hardly said “Hello, this is Russ” before she launched into her sputtering tirade. ”I live in Nevada,” she explained, “and I just made the drive to Carson [...]
What happens to NORML when we finally re-legalize marijuana?
I was moderating the comments over at the NORML Blog when I came upon this one (emphasis mine): Get me a plane ticket, room and board, 3 pounds of amrijuana, and 100,000 accomplices. We’ll go to the white house and envelope it with a cloud of pot smoke until they understand! You want “non-violent” protest [...]
Drug Czar Kerlikowske: “Legalization is not in the president’s vocabulary… or mine.”
Somebody get Barack and Gil a dictionary! Legalization (verb): the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal. Or how about we get you a thesaurus! admittance, allowance, authorize, charter, code, control, legitimate, license, permit, redress, regulate, rule, sanction, tax, tolerate You cannot tell me Barack Obama made the Harvard Law Review without having “legalization” in his vocabulary. [...]
NORML Conference Poster available as signed print, t-shirt, more!
NORML National Conference 2009: Yes We Cannabis! Somebody had contacted me wondering if they could get a nice poster print of our “Yes We Cannabis!” conference poster. Well, NORML’s 2009 conference poster is being printed and will be available in two ways: 1) it is a part of NORML’s conference ’swag’ bag, provided with registration [...]
Reps. Frank, Paul, Hinchey, & Rohrabacher send letter to colleagues promoting marijuana decriminalization
Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009 June 24, 2009 Dear Colleague, Last Thursday, we reintroduced HR 2943, the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2009, which would remove federal penalties for the personal use of 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of marijuana by responsible adults. This bill was introduced [...]
Nogales, Arizona’s underground like “Swiss cheese” from smuggler’s tunnels
(Washington Post) NOGALES, Ariz. — They call themselves the Tunnel Rats. Trained in close-quarter combat, psychologically certified to work in confined spaces and armed to the teeth, these four-member teams of Border Patrol agents monitor an elaborate underground warren of dark and dangerous storm drains that crisscross these twin downtowns along the border. In the [...]
Drug Czar Kerlikowski addresses UN report on success of decriminalization, without mentioning decriminalization
The remarks from our Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy on the release of the UN 2009 World Drug Report, which endorsed drug decriminalization in a reversal of previous policy. Guess which 17-letter D-word never gets mentioned once in our “drug czar’s” 781-word statement? Statement of R. Gil Kerlikowske Director, National Drug [...]
El Paso Times: Juárez cartels beating 10,000 Mexican feds
Trade with Mexico, via Juárez, is vital to El Paso’s economy. And we are close-knit with family and friends in Juárez; so many of us fear a loved one will be caught in the crossfire of bullets. Some have — and died. Soldiers haven’t stopped gangland-style murders, now about seven daily right next door. And [...]