Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!
The Dutch government on Friday said it would start banning tourists from buying cannabis from "coffee shops" and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year. [So much for liberty. Shouldn't something either be banned or not? What is the morality behind such goofy restrictions? None that's consistent or sensible. But we're talking about Law. European Law at that! Dutch European Law.] "In order to tackle the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops and drug trafficking, the open-door policy of coffee shops will end...." [Ummmm....]
Bartlesville police responded to a call of a domestic disturbance in the 100 block of Northwest Cheyenne. Officers were looking for a man who resisted arrest. Reportedly, the police didn't find the individual. Officers were searching the neighborhood and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. A man opened a door and slammed the door at an officer's face. The officer searched the home and found a bottle of marijuana on the sink. [DAMN PROHIBITION! DAMN PROHIBITION! DAMN PROHIBITION!]
Twelve suspected members of the Zetas drug gang and a member of Mexico's Navy were killed in a shootout on an island in a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border... The suspected drug traffickers used the island for storing marijuana...
The nation's first proposed state-backed investment bank for the marijuana business failed Tuesday after a fiery debate in the Colorado House. ... The proposed Colorado Investment Trust was promoted as a way to allow pot shops to borrow money and bank. [STATE BACKED? WTF??]
By any objective measure, the War On Drugs is a disastrous failure. It's time to end this madness now.
responsible for the importation of large amounts of marijuana from sources in Phoenix into the Detroit area between November 2008 and December 2009, the release states. Drug couriers, often called "mules," reportedly transported marijuana and large amounts of cash in rental vehicles, commercial buses and airlines...
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Authorities have determined a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment was killed for stealing drugs from a Mexican cartel, in a gruesome example of drug cartel violence spilling over the border.
Certain types of "fake pot" that can provide marijuana-like highs will be banned under U.S. rules that take effect tomorrow...
A legislative proposal to allow the sale of strong beer and wine in [Oklahoma] state grocery and convenience stores has been put off until next year.
The United States is phasing out funding for opium eradication programs in poppy-filled Afghanistan while significantly boosting funding for alternate crop and drug interdiction efforts.... [END NANNY TYRANNY! (And cut the drug gangs' profits to zero!) LEGALIZE!] U.S. eradication programs were only driving Afghan farmers into the hands of the Taliban.
Bartlesville -- Westside Community Center Director Morris McCorvey is free on bond after his arrest on marijuana-related offenses following a raid on his Bartlesville home Sunday evening... also found what appeared to be a "grow room..."
Kendall Craig Farris, who heads the Over the Wall Foundation in Marina del Rey, is arrested after an undercover Redondo Beach officer is sold fake methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets.
A new billboard located off a busy street in Oklahoma City is advertising the legalization of drugs.... 10,000 members of the organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, known as LEAP. The officers use the badge to make their message more credible.... [And some opposing propaganda bla bla bla put down of LEAP's noble men...]
Four people originally arrested on marijuana, distribution of marijuana and child neglect related charges will instead face formal charges of possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a park or school and paraphernalia.
A bill that would allow nonprofit stores in Rhode Island to sell marijuana to medical patients is headed to the governor's desk.
examining the conduct of six officers connected to drug raids in November... found a large amount of cannabis... [OVER POT! THEY WERE WATERBOARDED OVER POT!] "Whilst the investigation is ongoing it is not appropriate to make assumptions...."
...on marijuana, distribution of marijuana and child neglect related charges... deputies told Cowan that due to the small size of the house and poor circulation that the 5-month-old was likely exposed to the marijuana smoke. The report states that when told this, Cowan (the child's mother) started to cry....
EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised Thursday that a new Obama Administration border drug-fighting strategy won't just focus on smugglers.She said the counternarcotics plan also will set its sights on reducing demand from drug users. EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL
"I think that amount of time is excessive, but it's not up to me," U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors' case against medical marijuana reached a legal dead-end Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from San Diego and San Bernardino counties, which sought a ruling on whether California's medical marijuana law trumps the federal controlled-substances law banning the drug's use. In reaction to the court's decision, the county's lead attorney said he will recommend the board approve giving the ID cards to patients at its meeting on June 16.
THE Obama administration's drug czar made news last week by saying he wanted to end all loose talk about a "war on drugs." "We're not at war with people in this country," said the czar, Gil Kerlikowske, who favors forcing people into treatment programs rather than jail cells. Here's a better idea — and one that will help the federal and state governments fill their coffers: Legalize drugs and then tax sales of them.
White House plays host to ambassador who calls this a serious debate. ... "As most things in life, you need two to tango,'' Sarukhan said in a recent appearance on CBS News' Face the Nation. He was talking about combatting the flow of drugs and weapons across the border.
"Howdy, howdy, howdy hey! Marijuana's here to stay!"
According to court papers police found more than 1,000 bags of heroin and cash in both the women's homes on Ehler Street near Stroudsburg. Both are charged with possession with intent to deliver. Police believe the sisters had been dealing heroin out of their homes for almost six months and pulling in about $10,000 a week in sales.
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) noted this morning that more than half of federal inmates are locked up for drug-related crimes, including high ratios of African American offenders. In 2007, Durbin said, 82 percent of people convicted on crack possession charges were black, and only 9 percent were white.
The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
He is one of the first in the nation to seek leniency from a judge after U.S.A. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last month that federal agents will now target marijuana distributors only when they violate both federal and state laws. However, Holder didn't say how the new approach would affect pending cases, and federal prosecutors have recommended a five-year prison sentence for Lynch.
a deal: give us drugs, after a certain age — say, 80 — all drugs, any drugs we want. In return, we will give you our driver's licenses. (I mean, can you imagine how terrifying a nation of decrepit, solipsistic 90-year-old boomers behind the wheel would be?) [Is this person trying to be funny or just an idiot?]
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a two-day visit to Mexico, accepts that the U.S. market for narcotics and a cross-border trade in U.S. guns contribute to Mexico's drug violence. "We know very well that the drug traffickers are motivated by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States, that they are armed by the transport of weapons from the United States to Mexico.... We see this as a responsibility to assist the Mexican government and people." [So, if everybody would just ... not inhale?... Oh, that was Bill. This is Hill.]
Tackling a series of controversial measures, the New Hampshire House has voted to repeal the death penalty and to approve doctor-certified medical marijuana for people with serious illnesses. ... Both bills head to the state Senate, where their fate is uncertain ...
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