marijuana laws
Happy Frikken New Year…
Posted by at 1st January, 2008
I don’t want this to be a downer, because New Year’s Eve is my absolute favorite holiday of the year. New beginnings and all that (not to mention great parties!). But on this New Year’s day I’m a little bummed after reading some bleak news about the "war on drugs". According to Paul Armentano, the senior policy analyst for NORML:
America now spends nearly $50 billion dollars per year targeting, prosecuting, and incarcerating illicit-drug users. As a result, the population of illicit-drug offenders now behind bars is greater than the entire U.S. prison population in 1980. Since the mid 1990s, drug offenders have accounted for nearly 50 percent of the total federal prison population growth and some 40 percent of all state prison population growth. For marijuana alone, law enforcement currently spends between $7 billion and $10 billion dollars annually targeting users — primarily low-level offenders — and taxpayers spend more than $1 billion annually to incarcerate them.
Read the full article here. And in spite of that, drug use is virtually UNCHANGED. It makes me so mad I could spit, to think of the idiots that run this country - Democrats and Republicans alike. Aren’t they getting tired yet of beating their heads against a brick wall that won’t go away? I keep waiting and waiting for someone to GET A CLUE.
The Case for Legalizing Pot: How to frame the debate
Posted by at 26th November, 2007
Pot should be legal for no other reason than that it’s a personal choice that doesn’t affect anyone else. That said, there are actually a lot of other reasons why it should be legalized (and I’m not just talking about medical marijuana either). This guy has written about the best laid out argument for legalizing marijuana that I’ve seen in a long time. You’ve probably already heard most of the points he makes, but I like the way he lays it out, and some of the comments are really good too. Read it and memorize it for the next time you’re discussing marijuana legalization with a right-wing fear monger.
Marijuana Conspiracy
Posted by at 24th October, 2007
This is a really good video, but you definitely don’t want to watch it while you’re high. The information is fascinating - but in a very dry kind of way (think 8th grade Social Studies class). The narrator’s voice is hypnotic (read: monotonous, lol). I totally zoned out the first time I tried to watch this.
Don’t get me wrong though, there’s some good info here if you’re into facts and figures about the origins of all the propaganda surrounding weed prohibition. The first few minutes are easy for anyone to stay awake for. Starts out with a great song by Jack Black aka Tenacious D, if I’m not mistaken.
Henderson, NV Law Enforcement: Guilty of Criminal Ignorance
Posted by at 24th May, 2007
Police in Henderson, NV charged a man with DUI after they gave him a blood test and found evidence of marijuana in his system.
Apparently it doesn’t matter to them that finding traces of pot in your system means you may have smoked pot a MONTH ago, and that it has absolutely no relation at all to whether or not you’re currently under the influence.
If this poor guy gets a good lawyer he should be able to beat this, but… Who knows? Maybe the judges in Nevada are just as ignorant as the police there.
Medical marijuana patient charged with DUI
May 24, 2007 10:49 AM
KVBC-TV, Las Vegas, NVA Henderson man faces DUI charges, but he says he’s done nothing wrong. That’s because he is a legal medical marijuana patient.
Reggie Morgan has liver cancer that is in remission, but he says he is still in a lot of pain, so he smokes marijuana to ease the discomfort. He says he has all the paperwork to make it legal - a doctors note, a letter from the Department of Agriculture, even a medical marijuana ID card.
Recently he was pulled over by a state trooper and charged with driving under the influence. We spoke with Metro police about this issue; they say legal or not, no one under the influence of drugs should be behind the wheel.
“He needs to stay home and tend to his medical issues, not being out driving putting you and me and my families at risk,” said Metro Sgt. Phillip George.
NHP took a blood sample from Morgan and it showed marijuana in his system. Morgan says he was not under the influence at the time and that the drug would turn up in his system from prior use.
Michele Leonhart, Do the Right Thing!
Posted by at 23rd May, 2007
Today there was some good news in the fight to get the DEA to lift a 40-year ban on allowing the FDA to conduct research on marijuana for medical purposes.
But don’t get too excited, because whether or not this goes forward now is up to just ONE person…
Judge Submits Official Recommendation to DEA Urging End to 40-Year Barrier to FDA-Approved Medical Marijuana Research
WASHINGTON D.C. – A U.S. Department of Justice-appointed judge submitted her final recommendation to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on May 15, calling on the agency to end a forty-year government monopoly on the supply of research-grade marijuana available for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved studies. With this monopoly broken, new studies could lead to medical marijuana’s availability in pharmacies as a legal, prescription drug. DEA Deputy Administrator Michele Leonhart must now accept the judge’s recommendation in order for the ruling to take effect, though she has no deadline for doing so and may choose to reject the recommendation.
You can read the full article here.
It’s absolutely insane. Every other drug you can name, e.g. heroin, ecstasy, LSD, etc. etc. etc. is approved by the DEA for research purposes. But the LEAST harmful drug of them all (including alcohol), marijuana, is considered too evil and dangerous to even be allowed to be studied.
If that isn’t ‘politics’, my friend, then I don’t know what in the hell is. I’d love to know how Michele voted in the last presidential election…
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