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Pot Prohibition Turns 100-Years-Old Today
Marijuana prohibition ‘celebrates’ its centennial anniversary today. That’s right, the government’s war on cannabis consumers is now officially 100-years-old.blogs.alternet.org
Marijuana Holds Top 50 Spots In Questions For Obama… Again
But unsurprisingly, the subject of marijuana doesn’t show up anywhere on the YouTube site — unless you do some sorting. Rather than being allowed to actually see the obvious popularity of marijuana law reform, visitors have to click “All Questions” an…
Prop 19: National Black Police Association Endorses Marijuan
Posted by admin in Political News on August 19, 2010
Great news from our friends at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: the National Black Police Association, a 38-year-old advocacy group for African American law enforcement professionals, has endorsed Prop 19, California’s marijuana legalization initia…
Wasted Potential: The Cost Of Marijuana Prohibition [pic]
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 17, 2010
850,000 arrests a year. $340 billion in lost tax revenue.
$14 billion on the drug war. The real cost of keeping marijuana
illegal in America.www.prosebeforehos.com
Yes on 19 – Control & Tax Cannabis in 2010 | Pledge to vote
Posted by admin in Political News on August 10, 2010
If you live in California and you wish to see an end to marijuana prohibition, go here and make your pledge. It helps us to focus our efforts elsewhere, to gain more support. Decriminalization of this medicinal herb, will help free up criminal justic…
Police Magazine Runs Pro-Marijuana-Legalization Op-Ed by Cop
Posted by admin in Political News on August 9, 2010
We like to remind people that our critique of the drug war is not about the freedom to get high. It is about improving public safety by implementing policies that will start to reverse decades of prohibition’s legacy – our nation awash in drugs and…
Why not legalize marijuana and tax it, like liquor?
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 5, 2010
For generations, America’s drug laws have been stuck in a narrow and futile Prohibition that packs the prisons, abets narco-traffickers and costs states and theblogs.ajc.com
Just Say Now: End the War on Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on August 5, 2010
petition to President Obama:
The war on marijuana is a failure. The government wastes billions of dollars fighting drug cartels that thrive on marijuana prohibition. Thousands of people are killed, police officers lives are put in risk, and taxpay…
Left-Right Coalition Launches Campaign To Legalize Pot
Posted by admin in Political News on August 3, 2010
A transpartisan coalition of prosecutors, judges, cops, students, bloggers and political operatives on both sides of the aisle launched a campaign Tuesday to bring an end to marijuana prohibition, focusing on ballot initiatives in 2010 and 2012. www.hu…
Yes on California Proposition 19: Legalize marijuana to supp
Posted by admin in Political News on July 31, 2010
With proposition 19 California voters have the opportunity to decide whether or not they want to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. This would effectively end generations of a failed prohibition that did nothing more than send a few …www.e…
The Flower
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on July 30, 2010
The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of marijuan…
Watch: "The Flower" What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like
Posted by admin in Comics & Animation on July 30, 2010
A short animated parable from award winning artist Haik Hoisington “The Flower” contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited. The…
The Flower: Awesome Animation about Marijuana Prohibition.
Posted by admin in Comics & Animation on July 29, 2010
The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal.www.youtube.com
California ACLU Endorses Marijuana Legalization Measure
Posted by admin in Political News on July 24, 2010
The California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union announced Friday their endorsement of Proposition 19, the initiative on the November 2010 ballot to allow state regulation and taxation of marijuana. Enforcement of marijuana prohibition c…
California ACLU Endorses Marijuana Legalization Measure
The California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union announced Friday their endorsement of Proposition 19, the initiative on the November 2010 ballot to allow state regulation and taxation of marijuana. Enforcement of marijuana prohibiti…
Want to Defuse the Mexican Border Problem? Legalize marijuan
Posted by admin in Political News on July 24, 2010
When asked about it by Dylan Ratigan, I said that everyone discussing the “immigration problem” was ignoring the elephant in the middle of the room: marijuana prohibitionfdlaction.firedoglake.com
Retired top cops slam argument against legalizing pot
Posted by admin in Political News on July 21, 2010
Though marijuana legalization is largely a liberal and progressive cause célèbre, it may be fair to say that California’s elected Democrats aren’t exactly cuckoo for these coco-puffs. But then, that’s why there’s Law Enforcement Against Prohibition…
State NAACP backs marijuana legalization initiative
Posted by admin in Political News on June 28, 2010
Saying that prohibition takes a heavy toll on minorities, leaders of the NAACP’s California chapter announced Monday that they are backing passage of a marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot.
The war on drugs is a failure and disprop…
Cops Love Marijuana Busts, But They Hate Meth Busts
Posted by admin in World News on June 26, 2010
Today I sat looking at my Google search results, News last twenty four hours marijuana 24,086 hits! An article where a officer is talking about the profit difference between marijuana and Meth busts came to mind. So I did a Google search News last twen…
Police Waste Time & Money on Prohibition
Posted by admin in Political News on June 23, 2010
Sacramento Sheriff McGinness says Marijuana is a herb, one of the best known US Army Generals Stanley McChrystal was caught smoking marijuana. Yet law enforcement continues its insane war on marijuana. Recently some brave officers tried to hike into a …
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