Category: Needless Victims

(417 posts)

Needless victims of our failed drug war

August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
AZ SWAT Team Kills Man in Drug Raid Shoot-Out

AZ SWAT Team Kills Man in Drug Raid Shoot-Out

03:20pm A Phoenix-area SWAT team shot and killed one man during a “dynamic entry” (break the door down) drug raid early Thursday morning after the raiders...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
87 Year Old Denver Man Arrested for Growing and Distributing

87 Year Old Denver Man Arrested for Growing and Distributing

Denver Police arrested an elderly medical marijuana patient with more marijuana than he was allowed. A LOT more. Edward Bogunovich, 87, was arrested for growing more than...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
US Tax Court: No Medical Marijuana Dispensary Tax Deductions

US Tax Court: No Medical Marijuana Dispensary Tax Deductions

A new US Tax Court decision is slapping San Francisco’s already-forced-to-shutdown Vapor Room dispensary with a massive tax bill by disallowing tax deductions. It sets a scary legal...
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August 6, 2012
08/06/2012
The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

The Last Word: Rewriting the Cost of the War on Drugs

What is the real cost of the war on drugs? How long do you fight a war that cannot be won? Lawrence O’Donnell (The Last Word, NBC News)...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Honolulu Police Officer Faces Five Years for Growing Pot

Honolulu Police Officer Faces Five Years for Growing Pot

Michael Steven Chu, a Honolulu police officer has pleaded guilty and faces up to five years in prison for conspiring to cultivate 48 plants and to possess with...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses

Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Protect Landlords of Compliant Medical Marijuana Businesses

Washington, D.C. — Late yesterday, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and seven initial co-sponsors introduced HR 6335, the States’ Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act, in an attempt...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Bill Maher Reviews ‘Too High to Fail’ by Doug Fine

Bill Maher Reviews ‘Too High to Fail’ by Doug Fine

Longtime marijuana advocate and weedist Bill Maher reviews Doug Fine‘s latest book Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution. Read Bill’s great thoughts at...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Cannabis Prohibition Now Seventy-Five Years Old

Cannabis Prohibition Now Seventy-Five Years Old

Infamously, America’s federally created Cannabis Prohibition marks its seventy-fifth anniversary this August 2, 2012. The so-called ‘great failed social experiment’ of Alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s barely...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
Drug Smuggling Diplomat Denied Diplomatic Immunity and Jailed

Drug Smuggling Diplomat Denied Diplomatic Immunity and Jailed

KUNA reports Amelework Wondemagegne, an Ethiopian Embassy official, attempted to claim diplomatic immunity after being caught trying to smuggle cannabis into the UK . The Washington DC based, 36...
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August 3, 2012
08/03/2012
13 Year Old Madera Boy Arrested Facing Felony Drug Charges

13 Year Old Madera Boy Arrested Facing Felony Drug Charges

KSEE24 News reports a 13-year old Madera, California boy is facing felony drug charges for cultivation of marijuana for one full grown and some starter plants. Crazy.
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Exclusive Video: Funeral for Shuttered SF Dispensaries

Exclusive Video: Funeral for Shuttered SF Dispensaries

San Francisco, CA – On August 1, 2012, San Francisco weedists rallied with a funeral procession to mourn the shuttering of two medical marijuana dispensaries that have served the...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
“Pot is The New Gay” says NY Medical Marijuana Screener

“Pot is The New Gay” says NY Medical Marijuana Screener

Kenny Toglia is on a mission to legalize medical marijuana in New York and save marijuana users from the lack of quality control and health standards that...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson

Woman Walks After Prosecutorial Perfidy in Tucson

02:57pm, (Issue #745) Special to the Chronicle by Houston-based investigative journalist Clarence Walker, who can be reached at cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.com. This article is the latest in his...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Lebanon Hash Eradication Hits New Obstacle

Lebanon Hash Eradication Hits New Obstacle

04:09pm, (Issue #745) Last week, we reported on armed resistance against Lebanese government marijuana plant eradication teams in the Bekaa Valley, one of the world’s leading...
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August 2, 2012
08/02/2012
Handcuffed Marijuana Offender Shot, Killed in Police Car

Handcuffed Marijuana Offender Shot, Killed in Police Car

05:03pm, (Issue #745) A Southhaven, Mississippi, man arrested for marijuana by police in nearby Jonesboro, Arkansas, was shot and killed as he sat handcuffed in the...
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August 1, 2012
08/01/2012
Commentary: The Racial Politics of Pot Arrests

Commentary: The Racial Politics of Pot Arrests

BET provides a great post with insights and supporting statistics on the racial disparity in marijuana busts and how it paints a clear picture of two different Americas:...
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August 1, 2012
08/01/2012
DOJ to Sentencing Commission: Fewer Prisoners, Please

DOJ to Sentencing Commission: Fewer Prisoners, Please

04:46pm In a Congressionally mandated annual report to the US Sentencing Commission on the operation of federal sentencing guidelines, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said continuing increases...
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August 1, 2012
08/01/2012
Help Needed: Feds Seek to Silence Silver Tour’s Robert Platshorn

Help Needed: Feds Seek to Silence Silver Tour’s Robert Platshorn

NORML is spearheading a mail campaign to the U.S. Parole Commission who has prohibited Robert Platshorn from both criticizing the now unpopular government prohibition policies and from educating willing...
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August 1, 2012
08/01/2012
Pharmacy Hoax on U.S. Attorney Revealed

Pharmacy Hoax on U.S. Attorney Revealed

San Diego, CA – The San Diego chapter of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the nation’s largest medical cannabis advocacy group, working with LGBT activism group Canvass for...
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August 1, 2012
08/01/2012
17 Year Old Drug Czar Arrested in Ohio

17 Year Old Drug Czar Arrested in Ohio

A 17 year old “drug czar” admitted guilt in Ohio. His crime was growing 600 marijuana plants with a “street value of around $3 million”. The kid...
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