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Charlie Lynch, Montel Williams and Stephen Baldwin on Larry King

Here’s the transcript of last night’s show (scroll down near the bottom). Here are a couple of excerpts from Baldwin…

SMILEY: What about that distinction between legalizing and decriminalizing? What about the latter? BALDWIN: I disagree with the latter as well. You’re talking to a guy 20 years sober, Tavis, off of drugs and [...]

Open Thread

“bullet” Holbrooke is already making waves in Afghanistan

Holbrooke, who was appointed by President Obama as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, stated that efforts to eliminate opium poppy crops had failed to hinder the Taliban insurgents‰ ability to raise money from the drug trade. ‹It is the most wasteful and ineffective program I [...]

Reactions to Obama’s marijuana blunder

From liberal blogs: “bullet” Dave Neiwert at Crooks and Liars

the “war on drugs” is a kitchen-table issue that affects millions of Americans in their homes, especially as we watch the tremendous waste of national resources spent criminalizing people who need medical treatment, and we witness the costs to our national and personal security [...]

Obama ridicules marijuana question

At today’s Town Hall, Obama acknowledged that a whole lot of folks voted marijuana questions to the top (once again).

The query, which received more than three million votes, was: “With over 1 out of 30 Americans controlled by the penal system, why not legalize, control, and tax marijuana to change the failed war [...]

More progress for medical marijuana bills

Illinois: Approved yesterday by the Senate Public Health Committee. It’ll be debated next week in the full Senate. Minnesota Approved by the House Public Safety Policy and Oversight Committee on Tuesday, which sends it to the Finance Committee. New Hampshire Passed by the New Hampshire House (234-138). It goes to the Senate next.

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Suspected drunk driver rams home, exposes pot farm

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Authorities said a 63-year-old man suspected of drunken driving crashed his pickup truck into a neighbor’s house, leaving a gaping hole and revealing a small marijuana farm inside. San Diego police got a search warrant after the Sunday afternoon crash and confiscated more than 20 pot plants from the house.

Sad in so [...]

Medical Marijuana dispensary raid in San Francisco by DEA

[post revised and updated] Emmalyn’s California Cannabis Clinic at 1597 Howard Street in San Francisco. SSDP’s Micah Daigle was on the scene and reported that all the local press were there. (Protesters were there as well.) Micah also reported that the DEA agents went in with a sledgehammer and crobar, so they certainly weren’t [...]

Too dumb to get out of the rain

New York Times

‹Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,Š [Hillary Clinton] said, using unusually blunt language. ‹Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.Š [...] She came bearing a new White House initiative, [...]

Tarika Wilson’s life bought 8 hours of training

Well, that’s something, at least…

LIMA, Ohio – In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of a Lima woman by a police sergeant, community members agreed the police department needed to get back to talking to residents and getting to know the neighborhoods it patrols. To that end, all 80 sworn officers and 25 [...]

Open Thread

I’ve got a huge presentation to prepare by Wednesday morning, so I have no time to blog, but here are a couple of things to discuss… “bullet” Charlie Lynch’s sentencing has been postponed

U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu asked prosecutors for a written response from the Justice Department about its position on [...]