Monthly Archives: September 2010

Some fun from CRACKED.com Laser ray guns, tanks, piranhas, bears, grenade launchers and more… If you can own them, why can’t you own a plant?

There’s an OpEd at the Dakota Voice: Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No by Cully Stimson of the Heritage Foundation. The “Legal Memorandum,” as it’s called there, is also available at the Heritage Site and probably easier to … Continue reading →

Wednesday, the Arizona Cardinals donated $10,000 to the organization called Keep AZ Drug Free, which opposes a medical marijuana bill. This is from a football organization on their fifth year of a beer sponsorship deal with Anheuser-Busch. Budweiser and Bud … Continue reading →

The Drug Czar: The data also show that nearly 21 million people in the U.S. needed treatment for substance abuse. However, 95 percent of this group felt they did not need treatment Makes you wonder.

Every year, whenever a new set of numbers comes out regarding illicit drugs, the drug warriors are ready to pounce. Their staff combs through the numbers and looks for specific ones (out of thousands) to cherry-pick. It’s a fun and … Continue reading →

See the article at Just Say Now with the details.

He does a great job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBV4JprZPTM

One of the huge problems with our criminal justice system now is that sentencing has very little connection to actual benefit to society (particularly with the drug war thrown in). SentenceSpeak discusses an interesting sentencing factor in Missouri: It is … Continue reading →

I’d like to further discuss the earlier post about Alcohol lobby funding the Prop 19 opposition. First. I like alcohol. I think that alcohol, used responsibly, just like any other drug, has a wonderful place in our society. Personally, I’m … Continue reading →

Press Release from Mike Meno at MPP: Alcohol Lobby Teams with Law Enforcement to Fund Anti-Marijuana Campaign California Beer and Beverage Distributors Give $10K to “No On Proposition 19” Campaign in Attempt to Kill the Competition On September 7, a … Continue reading →