Posts Tagged war on drugs
Colombia’s President: Marijuana Should Be Legalized Globally
Posted by admin in World News on October 26, 2011
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said this week that legalization of marijuana would allow the war on drugs to move forward by shifting focus to harder drugs and helping to stop the international violence associated with drug trafficking.www.tok…
Legalize It
I don’t use marijuana, medical or otherwise. I don’t plan to take it up. Still, like an increasing number of Americans, I am vehemently opposed to the war on drugs.mises.org
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Says It’s Time to Legalize Marijuana
Annan is part of a blue-ribbon panel of international experts calling for the legalization of marijuana and a serious reconsideration of the War on Drugs, which they declare an abject failure. You think?blogs.sfweekly.com
Supreme Court Looks At Smell-Based Home Searches For Pot
Police smelling marijuana coming from behind an apartment door can enter the home without a warrant if they believe the evidence is being destroyed, some U.S. Supreme Court Justices said on Wednesday. Since the War On Drugs was re-started by President…
New Poll: Majority of American Adults Support Legalizing Pot
Posted by admin in Political News on July 23, 2010
Americans consider the War on Drugs to be a multi-billion-dollar failure, and by a slim margin, they approve legalizing marijuana. The question for supporters of California’s Prop. 19 is whether supporters will turn into likely voters who actually expr…
Marijuana Law Reform Is a Civil Rights Issue
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on July 22, 2010
It is time to end the failed war on drugs by decriminalizing and regulating marijuana to save our communities and improve our Civil Rights.www.alternet.org
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…
Marijuana poses a scientific challenge to the War on Drugs
Posted by admin in World News on May 29, 2010
Marijuana is classified as a schedule I substance by the feds. This classification designates that the drug has “no current use for medical treatment in the United States.” Besides a slew of scientific studies controverting this assertion, it seems the Department of Health and Human Services didn’t get the “pot-has-no-medicinal-value” …….
Raid on MO family just one more reason to end ‘War on Drugs’
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on May 8, 2010
Last February, a SWAT team raided a house in Columbia, Missouri, shooting 2 dogs (1 fatally) in the process. The found a misdemeanor’s worth of marijuana. That, actually, is one of the BETTER outcomes of the “War on Drugs,” and the “no-knock” raids by which that war is waged.
A Scene From the War on Drugs
Posted by admin in Political News on May 7, 2010
Warning: it’s not a pretty sight.
Radley Balko has posted video of the SWAT raid on a Missouri home that he wrote about last February. This is the one where the Columbia Police Department busted in, fired seven shots at the family’s dogs, and ended up recovering a small amount of marijuana. It’s horrifying, but I’d urge you to watch it.
Tony Newman: Dismantling the Talking Points of Marijuana Pro
Posted by admin in Arts & Culture on April 23, 2010
The war on drugs will be on the ballot in California this November. The nation will watch the state decide whether to tax and regulate marijuana or continue to arrest adults for possession of this plant.
The War On Drugs Has Failed, So Tax And Regulate Marijuana
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on April 21, 2010
We learned a valuable lesson with alcohol prohibition in this country. Prohibition created black markets and violence as gangs fought to control the market. The same thing is true today.
Gary Johnson – Legalize Marijuana – Reduce Crime
Posted by admin in Political News on April 20, 2010
Governor Johnson points out that we are not winning the war on drugs. Billions of dollars are being wasted and the result is higher crime rates. Marijuana legalization is an effective means to reduce the exorbitant costs currently spent fighting the War on Drugs, as well as providing the ability to generate a new revenue stream for state budgets t
Our ‘war on drugs’ causes more harm than good
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on March 13, 2010
As a former Seattle police chief, I saw how the prohibition of marijuana and other drugs does nothing to stop substance abuse.
Rather, it fuels the vast and violent drug cartels and street gangs that control the obscenely profitable illegal market. Prohibition guarantees high rates of property crimes, public corruption, disease, violence and death
Judge Jim Gray on Drug Prohibition [VIDEO]
Posted by admin in Educational, Political Opinion on March 9, 2010
Vote for marijuana legalization by Feb 22nd!
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on February 15, 2010
The war on drugs has been waged long enough, and more lives have been destroyed and families torn apart by the prison system than by marijuana itself. Legalization of marijuana would save countless time and money from being wasted by law enforcement and by our courts. It would save national and state governments an…
Harvard Economist on why marijuana should be legalized
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on February 6, 2010
Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron deconstructs the reasons why the war on drugs needs to stop. From the documentary HIGH: The True Tale of American Marijuana, out now on D…
The End of the ‘War on Drugs’ Mentality?
Posted by admin in Political News on January 11, 2010
Obama administration’s moves on medical marijuana and federal funding for needle exchange open possibility for further liberalization of drug policies at the state level.
Thank you, War on Drugs, for scaring stupid people.
“A Florida woman fed her mother a “marijuana cookie” hoping it would make her “feel better,” but instead the elderly woman had to be rushed to the hospital with heart problems, Lake County authorities said.”
It wasn’t the cookie. It was the thought of the cookie.
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