Monthly Archives: November 2009

US Senate Committee Will Reconsider Marijuana’s Illegality

It looks like sanity is creeping into the world of politics. Today I read that the Senate Judiciary Committee will debate Senate Bill 714, better known as the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009.
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7 Year Old Boy Killed by Mexican Drug Cartel Violence

A terrible tragedy happened today – a 7 year old boy was killed in a Mexico/US border town by Mexican drug cartel gangsters. Sadly, the truly tragic part of this story is that anyone who bothered to care could have seen it coming a mile away and done som…
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AMA Wants Marijuana Out of Schedule 1

Today the American Medical Association publicly petitioned the US Federal Government to remove cannabis from the Schedule 1 set of illegal drugs. Doing this would make research into marijuana’s medicinal properties completely legal.The US system of c…
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In Free Societies Prohibitionist Laws Cause WAY MORE Harm than Good

After roughly 100 years of drug prohibition in Canada (Opium Act of 1908) we have not seen any appreciable change in the number of people who become addicted to drugs. And presumably that’s the whole reason for the drug war – end up with less drug addict…
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CNN Covers the Medical Marijuana Issue

To my surprise CNN has done a decent job of discussing the medical marijuana issue.Last weekend I captured this one hour special and despite having the usual prohibitionist douche bags propping up prohibition CNN was able to present the opposing view…
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