Posts Tagged ‘marijuana’
Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
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According to senior Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron, the only way to end the present drug violence in Mexico is to legalize drugs. What do you think? Please leave a comment… |
| Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion |
| Reuters | Apr 28, 2009 | |
| MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. |
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Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state
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| Okies wakeup: Mexican cartels already in state |
| Tulsa World | Apr 26, 2009 | By RON JACKSON NewsOK.com |
| Crossing a Mexican drug cartel usually comes with a price — death.
On the U.S.- Mexico border, that price is being paid daily with an endless stream of execution-style slayings in a war to control drug routes to the north. As Mexican officials crack down on these cartels, violence spreads. Lives are merely the cost of doing business, and since 2007 the international press has documented more than 7,400 drug war-related murders on the border. |
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Judge asks board if marijuana has safe medical uses
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A woman at the Ventura County Medical Cannabis Center in Thousand Oaks, California, tends to her marijuana garden. |
| Judge asks board if marijuana has safe medical uses |
| The Des Moines Register | Apr 25, 2009 | By CHASE DAVIS • cdavis@dmreg.com |
| A Polk County judge has ruled that the Iowa Board of Pharmacy must examine whether marijuana has an accepted medical use – a decision some said could thaw the debate on its use for medical purposes in Iowa.
The ruling Thursday by District Judge Joel Novak does not legalize medical marijuana in Iowa. Instead, it requires the pharmacy board to consider whether marijuana is properly classified as a Schedule I controlled substance under state law. |
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Portugal’s drug decriminalization ‘bizarrely underappreciated’
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| Portugal’s drug decriminalization ‘bizarrely underappreciated’ |
| Raw Story | Apr 6, 2009 | Rachel Oswald |
| “None of the fears promulgated by opponents of Portuguese decriminalization has come to fruition, whereas many of the benefits predicted by drug policymakers from instituting a decriminalization regime have been realized,” read more |
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Obama’s Demented Drug Policy
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| President Barack Obama just says no to legalization of marijuana today (03.26.09) in his first Internet town hall meeting. (RON EDMONDS/AP) |
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| Daily Beast | Apr 19, 2009 | by Radley Balko |
| The best solution to what’s plaguing Mexico right now is the one topic that will almost assuredly be off the table: legalizing marijuana. read more |
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| he most popular question asked on whitehouse.gov was about the legalization of marijuana and the possible economic benefits of such legislation.
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| President Barack Obama spoke during an ‘open for questions’ town hall meeting on Thursday. Questions were submitted and voted on by citizens via the internet and answered live by the president.
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Roll Call Is NORML!
Roll Call scan courtesy NORML
Roll Call Is NORML!
January 3rd, 2009 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director — Capitol Hill Cannabis Law Reform Lobby Highlighted Since the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, despite the government’s best, but utterly feckless efforts to suppress cannabis culture and use in America, the ‘buzz’ in Washington D.C. and nationwide these days about alternatives to cannabis prohibition is palpable. One interesting tea leaf for me to gather in this evolution towards cannabis law reforms at the national level is to see otherwise staid, Capitol Hill-based print publications such as The Hill and most recently Roll Call taking interest in the cannabis law reform lobby’s efforts in Washington—after decades of ignoring us. Is real change afoot here as indicated by these mainstream, political publications casting needed public and political attention towards NORML’s nearly 40-years of grassroots advocacy? Time, and increased public efforts by reformers, will tell…
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Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
Mexican forensic investigators work at the scene where 12 bodies were discovered in Tijuana on Sept. 29. The bodies of 11 men and one woman were found dumped in an empty lot next to an elementary school, an hour before students were scheduled to arrive. (AP)
Mexico’s Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting
NARCO NEWS: Posted by Kristin Bricker – December 31, 2008 at 8:38 pm A record-breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs Mexico’s daily El Universal, which began counting drug war executions four years ago, reports that 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008. This year’s deaths more than doubled 2007’s total of over 2,700 executions. By El Universal’s estimates, about 8,463 drug executions have occurr
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Los Angeles Times, Graphic content: Mexico under siege
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Ex-cop debuts first ‘KopBusters’ trailer
From chud.com… ‘The best bonus is Barry’s speech on a college campus filmed for a 20/20 profile on him, in which he passionately rages against the war on drugs, using some fun facts and information to back up his case…’
Ex-cop debuts first ‘KopBusters’ trailer
RawStory.com, by Stephen C. Webster, Published: Tuesday December 30, 2008′KopBusters’ creator scheduled to appear Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 3:45 p.m. EST, on CNN Newsroom with Rick Sanchez An anonymous tipster appeared to be harrying cops. It sounded like the plot of the latest TV pseudo-thriller: a rogue cop, a woman scorned, a helpless father, a drug grower, a small town pastor and police that play fast and loose with the constitution, all colliding after an anonymous letter tipped off police
KopBusters: Free Yolanda
Evidence proving Yolanda was framed.
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Barry and Candi Bust Cops In Odessa!!
Barry Cooper, creator of ‘Never Get Busted Again’ and ‘Kop Busters’ (Photo courtesy http://blogs.kansascity.com…
Barry and Candi Bust Cops In Odessa!!
TX Cops Get Busted
Barry Cooper’s new reality show ‘Kop Busters’ gets the footage for its pilot on 12/4/08.
It’s called an informant plant. The Odessa narcotics unit illegally compelled an informant to plant drugs on Yolanda Madden. The informant testified in federal court he planted the drugs on her and he passed a polygraph confirming the same. Yolanda also passed a polygraph along with a hair follicle and urine test. Our broken criminal justice system ignored the evidence and railroaded her through court sentencing her to 8 years in prison.
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World’s oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it’s evident that the man was buried with a lot of it. (David Potter / Oxford University Press)
World’s oldest marijuana stash totally busted
Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
By Jennifer Viegas updated 10:19 a.m. AKT, Wed., Dec. 3, 2008
Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world’s oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany.
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