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Chamber of Commerce Reefer Madness

A very powerful OpEd in the Los Angeles Times today by Dan Rush with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5: The California Chamber’s reefer madness: The group says Proposition 19 would prevent employers from punishing workers who show up high. That’s a lie.

This guy doesn’t pull any punches. He comes right out […]

October 28th, 2010 by Pete | Permalink | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

It’s time to legalize: end the war on pot

Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times: End the War on Pot

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did, and California may now be pioneering a saner approach. Sure, there are risks if California legalizes pot. But our present drug policy has three catastrophic consequences.

First, […]

October 28th, 2010 by Pete | Permalink | 28 comments - (Comments are closed)

When racism gets silly

LA Times blogger Dennis Romero has demonstrated a bit of a racist sense of humor in the past…

Surprise surprise. Latinos are getting behind the California ballot initiative to legalize pot. You mean the same folks who gave the world Cheech (not Chong), Acapulco gold and the very word marijuana? Orale!

Seems he loves to […]

October 28th, 2010 by Pete | Permalink | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)