When our drug war causes political instability and violence in other countries, it should be taken as a sign that something isn’t right about the War on Drugs. I’m not here to defend the actions of drug cartels and their leaders, but we must remember that before we initiated the War on Drugs, there was […]
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Seriously. These fucking guys are the ones responsible for defending my rights as a citizen? The ones who “selflessly” patrol the streets making sure that no harm comes to me? Bart Bedsole via KRISTV: Police later hauled away 300-400 medium-sized plants that they also believed was marijuana. If fact, officers only stopped collecting the plants […]
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Nicholas Casey via The Wall Street Journal: Authorities battling drug traffickers in this violent border city [Ciudad Juarez] have begun to suspect that their efforts to impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. has fostered demand—and turf wars—on their own territory. (Emphasis mine) They’ve begun to suspect that prohibition worsens the problem in every […]
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Aren’t drug warriors awesome? In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]
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When Afghan terrorists get more consideration than American civilians, it’s pretty evident we have a problem.
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And I’m ‘Firmly Opposed’ to the Obama Administration. Via the Huffington Post: Yet the entire premise for maintaining the government’s policy — that keeping marijuana criminally prohibited “reduces [its] availability and lessens willingness to use [it]” — is demonstrably false. Under present prohibition, more than 1/3 of 8th graders, more than 2/3rds of 10th graders, […]
Via the Marijuana Policy Project: The agenda for the publicly funded conference, held at the prestigious U.S. Grant Hotel from May 10 through May 13, is not available to the public. In fact, the conference is under the close guard of about a dozen San Diego Police officers and even some military personnel. We do […]
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From Jacob Sollum: This is exactly the sort of mindlessly draconian policy that a president with any interest in dialing back the war in drugs would avoid. Hope and Change indeed.
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Marc Emery, AKA the Prince of Pot, has lost his last appeal to the Canadian government which would have prevented his extradition to the US to serve a 5 year prison sentence for selling marijuana seeds to Americans over the internet. His hopes were that the Canadian government would refuse extradition because the sentence in […]
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It’s a refreshing breath of fresh air to see that Obama’s “new” drug war policies aren’t hypocritical at all. When is it that libertards will finally understand that, by and large, the social freedoms offered by Demotard policy either 1) don’t fucking exist outside of shallow campaign promises, or 2) that the fulfillment of those […]
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