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Photo I took from steps of the Capitol in Nov. 2006
What an incredible inauguration! I am so hopeful moving forward with a president who I believe can be reasoned with. A president who can speak and think in sentences with clauses and semicolons and complex concepts. Hell, I’m happy the president can say “nuclear”!
On today’s Stash, Paul Armentano follows up on our coverage of the awful SB 212 bill in Montana that would deny patients medical cannabis for life if busted for cannabis DUI, which is defined so low that all patients would be considered DUI. As always, Paul has the latest research on the topic of cannabis and driving.
Photo from today's Inauguration (wider lens)
Also we visit with Andrew Carroll, a young man in Keene, NH, who is practicing civil disobedience to demonstrate his protest of American marijuana prohibition. The catch? He doesn’t even use marijuana! (Here I’ve been smoking pot for 18.5 years without so much as a sideways look from a cop and this guy barely older than that who doesn’t smoke is getting busted for weed. How very strange.
That ondcp said: I write/draw on my self. What has that got to do with ganja use. This is just drug war propaganda pushing stereotypes. The anti marijuana ad is one thing but this is just ridiculous.
Couldn’t help but wonder at the mass of humanity. According to MSNBC, there were 1.8 million souls. If we took half of this crowd, 900,000, that would be slightly more than the drug arrests in 2007. One-half of these people arrested every year. Hard to believe. I was bummed for hours. And at 2.2 million in our prisons, just 400,000 more would represent our prision population.
How much longer?
It was a good day and now its over…Now what????