admin @ August 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tonight someone searched Google for the words: Can they shoot you?
… and it brought them to my site.
Yes, they can.
…
Lot of bodies piling up in Mexico. THEHIM’s thoughts are right on target:
Part of me really wants this issue to be discussed in the upcoming debates. The wiser part of me [...]
admin @ August 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since you guys can’t get enough of talking about politics, let’s get another thread going here…
It appears that the St. Paul Minnesota cops are taking a break from their armed home invasion drug raids and instead doing armed home invasion preemptive protestor raids. That’s right — they’re using armed assaults on people [...]
admin @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
NORML’s Allen St. Pierre delivers a smack-down to the ONDCP in the latest episode of the battle on The Hill. Go join the fun.
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admin @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Breaking: It appears to be McCain-Palin (although that’s not confirmed as of this writing).
She admits to having tried marijuana, but says she didn’t like it.
admin @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Must read: Bolivian Is an Uneasy Ally as U.S. Presses Drug War by Simon Romero in the New York Times
The refrain here in the Chapare jungle about Americans is short but powerful: “Long Live Coca, Death to the Yanquis!”
So when President Evo Morales recently came to the area, raising his fist and [...]
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… the Musical!
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admin @ August 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
… without any mention of drug policy (except from protestors)
And, as Matt Welch notes, the Democratic Party Platform does not contain the words “drug war,” “war on drugs,” “Fourth Amendment,” “marijuana,” or “cocaine.”
And my reaction is… “whew.”
Because, quite frankly, I knew that nothing resembling reform was going to come in a party convention. For [...]
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This editorial seems to be identifying some slight issues with the mayor….
Mayor Frank Paterra — who, by all indications, would not care if Charleroi slid into the Monongahela River as long as it did not involve crack cocaine — concerns himself only with his personal war against illicit drug trafficking. [...]
But in virtually the [...]
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I just watched the documentary on Tommy Chong that was released on DVD yesterday. It’s a very delightful piece about an American icon. I learned a lot about Tommy and his life, and even learned more about Operation Pipe Dreams (although I had followed it very closely at the time). It was [...]
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LEAP Becomes Latest Victim of Government Censorship
Arlington: Virginia - Retired police detective Howard Wooldridge, representing Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), was ousted from the National Asian Peace Officers Association (NAPOA) Conference in Crystal City because he was representing a view contrary to U.S. government policy.
LEAP is a 10,000-member organization of police, judges, prosecutors, DEA & [...]
admin @ August 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
So, what’s going on? I really can’t handle watching the conventions in the hopes that someone, somewhere, will mention drug policy, so any who are, please let me know if anything important happens. (Also, I’m working on a major addition to Drug WarRant that’ll take some time as it seems to be expanding [...]
admin @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
North Charleston police have scored a major pot bust, seizing 500 pounds of marijuana with a street value of more than $2 million.
Yet another (yawn) major seizure.
This is the part that got me:
Police said there was so much marijuana they couldn’t let reporters see it because the smell would overpower them. They instead showed pictures [...]
admin @ August 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Vietnam:
Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire.
With the pop-pop-pop of a Glock 9mm an armed suspect is shot and hits the floor as seven counter-narcotics officers fan out and [...]
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Apparently, Obama has picked Biden for his VP. Certainly disappointing, though not hugely significant, since:
I really don’t expect drug policy reform to come from any President who actually gets elected. and
I don’t expect the V.P. to have much power in setting negative policy.
But let’s review:
Biden was a hard core drug warrior for a [...]
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Coincidence? Shortly after a group of University presidents announce an initiative to look into whether the 21 year drinking age makes sense (it doesn’t) and suggests we look into other options…
… the Department of Justice announces $19 million in block grants to the states to enforce underage drinking laws. Now local [...]
admin @ August 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
N.J. men with Asian weapons claimed to target drugs
Clifton police say they arrested two men dressed liked ninjas and armed with Asian martial arts weapons who said they were sending a warning to drug users.
Calling themselves “Shinobi warriors,” the men wore black SWAT-type vests and carried knives, throwing stars, swords, nunchucks and a bow and [...]
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U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules
The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years. [...]
Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is [...]
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Ryan Grim notes that dog-killing Prince George’s County police, already completely lacking in credibility may be in more hot water — this time for killing a human.
Stephen Colbert’s Top 7 Drug Moments
Los Angeles Times on the Science of Medical Marijuana
A quote that stuck with me… In [...]
admin @ August 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It really is heartening to see the incredible degree to which drug policy sanity has spread throughout those who are internet-capable (especially when you think about the fact that that is where the population is heading).
Two recent examples, where opposing views in the press have both generated a lot of comments.
First, we have the two [...]
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Mary Anastasia O’Grady has previously shown a willingness in the Wall Street Journal OpEd pages to recognize the damaging effect of prohibition on the stability in Mexico.
She does so even more explicitly in today’s OpEd: Mexico Pays the Price of Prohibition
In a developed country like the U.S., prohibition takes a toll on the rule [...]