Tag: war on drugs

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October 9, 2012
10/09/2012
Federal Trial Against Medical Marijuana Provider Set to Begin in LA

Federal Trial Against Medical Marijuana Provider Set to Begin in LA

The operator of three state-compliant medical marijuana dispensaries will be tried in federal court this week in Los Angeles. Aaron Sandusky, 42, who operated facilities in Upland,...
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October 8, 2012
10/08/2012
Aaron Sandusky Faces Federal Marijuana Trial Tuesday in LA

Aaron Sandusky Faces Federal Marijuana Trial Tuesday in LA

Aaron Sandusky, founder and owner of G3 Holistic medical marijuana dispensaries in Upland, Colton and Moreno Valley CA, is facing six felony counts at his federal trial starting...
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October 8, 2012
10/08/2012
Gary Johnson: Most Americans Get Legalizing Marijuana, When Will DC?

Gary Johnson: Most Americans Get Legalizing Marijuana, When Will DC?

Libertarian POTUS candidate Gary Johnson writes on how the ‘war on drugs’, like 1920s Prohibition, has been a miserable failure and how America would be better-off with...
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October 5, 2012
10/05/2012
Tom Hayden to NORML: US Needs Peace Movement to End Drug War

Tom Hayden to NORML: US Needs Peace Movement to End Drug War

02:18am Harkening back to his days as a student antiwar activist in the 1960s, but also drawing heavily on the example of the contemporary Caravan for Peace (with...
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October 5, 2012
10/05/2012
Women for Measure 80 Support Moms for Marijuana with Rally in Salem

Women for Measure 80 Support Moms for Marijuana with Rally in Salem

Women for Measure 80 will join Moms for Marijuana on Monday, October 15, 2012 to support their joint venture with Overgrow the Government for the first Cannabis...
By: Anna Diaz
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October 4, 2012
10/04/2012
Colorado Amendment 64: Know the Lies, Part 3 – War On Drugs

Colorado Amendment 64: Know the Lies, Part 3 – War On Drugs

This Weedist series is dedicated to stopping the misinformation  being spread by the campaign to prevent Colorado voters from legalizing marijuana...
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October 4, 2012
10/04/2012
CO Presidential Debate Unwittingly Sets Precedent for Marijuana Reform

CO Presidential Debate Unwittingly Sets Precedent for Marijuana Reform

In case you missed the first Presidential Debate of 2012, it appears that both the incumbent President and presidential hopeful were in agreement about marijuana reform based...
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October 4, 2012
10/04/2012
Sir Richard Branson Labels US Drug Policy ‘Racist’

Sir Richard Branson Labels US Drug Policy ‘Racist’

Sir Richard Branson has labeled US drug policy as racist, stating that its a “war on black people” which results in the jailing of too many African Americans.
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

07:37pm It’s been a fairly quiet week on the corrupt cop front, but we’ve still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused...
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
NY Prisons Are Isolating Drug Users for 23 Hours a Day In Cells “the Size of a Typical Elevator”

NY Prisons Are Isolating Drug Users for 23 Hours a Day In Cells “the Size of a Typical Elevator”

Mike Riggs analyzes some pretty horrific findings in a new New York Civil Liberties Union report, e.g. NY prison system inmates caught using drugs, including marijuana, are punished with months,...
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
MA Drug Lab Scandal Gets Special Court Sessions

MA Drug Lab Scandal Gets Special Court Sessions

01:59am Court administrators in Massachusetts are scrambling to set up special court sessions to address the cases of more than a thousand people imprisoned after being...
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October 2, 2012
10/02/2012
Video: Roseanne Barr’s Oaksterdam Speech

Video: Roseanne Barr’s Oaksterdam Speech

Roseanne Barr was invited to Oaksterdam University last week to speak about her push for complete legalization of marijuana. Fifty-nine year-old Barr, who currently runs a nut farm in Hawaii, talked...
By: Lateralus
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Federal Cannabis Prohibition Turns 75-Years-Old Today

Federal Cannabis Prohibition Turns 75-Years-Old Today

In a milestone that will no doubt go largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, today marks the 75th anniversary of the enactment of federal marijuana prohibition. On...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Peru Coca Crop Keeps Getting Bigger

Peru Coca Crop Keeps Getting Bigger

03:45am Coca cultivation in Peru increased again last year, up 5.2% over 2010, according to the 2011 coca monitoring survey conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
CNN: 2012 Cost of Failed War on Drugs Through September

CNN: 2012 Cost of Failed War on Drugs Through September

The utter failure that is the war on drugs has reached a combined $30 billion so far this year and 1.2 million Americans have been arrested for...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Forbes: Credit Card Processors Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana

Forbes: Credit Card Processors Discriminate Against Medical Marijuana

Forbes covers the federal government’s war on medical marijuana: “From the constant threat of raids and civil asset forfeiture, medical marijuana dispensaries also have to contend with payment...
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October 1, 2012
10/01/2012
Federal Sentencing of Legally Compliant Medical Marijuana Providers Highlights Harmful Obama Policy

Federal Sentencing of Legally Compliant Medical Marijuana Providers Highlights Harmful Obama Policy

Five medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court next week, highlighting the human cost of the federal government’s intolerance for state medical marijuana...
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September 28, 2012
09/28/2012
Chemist Annie Dookhan Faked Drug Test Results, Could Unravel Thousands Of Convictions

Chemist Annie Dookhan Faked Drug Test Results, Could Unravel Thousands Of Convictions

A Massachusetts chemist, Annie Dookhan, who tested more than 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants over nine years has admitted to faking drug sample results, according...
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Chief Greenbud: His New Release and Weed

Chief Greenbud: His New Release and Weed

Weedists: Meet Chief Greenbud “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” I had the pleasure of meeting...
By: Anna Diaz
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Latin Americans at UN Seek Drug Policy Debate

Latin Americans at UN Seek Drug Policy Debate

06:51pm Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly session saw not one, not two, but three Latin American heads of state call on it to promote debate on...
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