Monthly Archives: September 2005

Via Last One Speaks and US Marijuana Party, comes this gem. So here’s the deal… Cops think they see marijuana plants in a back yard. They take pictures They show the pictures to the district attorney The district attorney takes … Continue reading →

The Las Vegas Review Journal nails Boulder City Attorney David Olsen in this scathing editorial Southern Nevada has a new general in the drug war: Boulder City Attorney David Olsen. And Mr. Olsen isn’t concerned about sacrificing freedom to wage … Continue reading →

In today’s Providence Journal, a good read by Froma Harrop […]Possession of cocaine, a felony, did not interfere with [George W. Bush or Lincoln Chaffee’s] Ivy League education. Nor did it stop them from seeking and attaining high public office. … Continue reading →

The first narcotics informant to be tried in this Dallas case was found guilty yesterday. An earlier report spelled out how the scam was organized. Crooked narcotics informants on the Dallas police payroll in 2001 operated like a highly regimented … Continue reading →

Link President Bush has taken Venezuela off his list of allies in the war on drugs, saying that the government of President Hugo Chavez spurned anti-drug cooperation with U.S. officials and fired its effective law enforcement officers. But the White … Continue reading →

Link A Boulder City woman who pleaded no contest to possession of six marijuana plants could lose her house over the case. Officials in the small town, which prides itself on being the only community in the state that doesn’t … Continue reading →

As reported all over the web today, Tom DeLay officially acknowledged that Republican leadership has absolutely no concept of fiscal conservatism. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared … Continue reading →

“bullet” The depressing clean-up effort… In New Orleans’s downtown, most of it on higher and drier land, authorities allowed business owners to check their buildings Monday. Dump trucks with claws plucked the growing piles of debris from street corners and … Continue reading →

Ed Rosenthal is appealing his 1 day and time served federal conviction for medical marijuana. In case you’ve forgotten, this was the case where he was not allowed to mention medical marijuana or the fact that the city had deputized … Continue reading →

Caught this press release about a new book coming out from Hoover Institution Press: Drug War Deadlock: The Policy Battle Continues (Hoover Institution Press, 2005), edited by Hoover research fellow Laura E. Huggins It’s a collection of articles, OpEds, letters … Continue reading →