Author Archives: Pete Guither

My thoughts are with the Illinois Senate committee hearing on medical marijuana. I attended the hearings last year, when Walters swooped down to put the lowly state Senators in their place, causing them to vote against their own people. I’m … Continue reading →

(Via Susie Bright) Check out this old Black and White educational video clip of British troops being administered LSD for experiments. Hilarious. Now if you could just get both sides to take it, maybe they’d stop fighting.

I hope you have better things to do on Valentine’s Day. But if you want to, and you can stomach it, let me know how Frontline does with this. Interestingly, Frontline publicist Jessica Smith contacted me and thought I might … Continue reading →

Link Possession of less than an ounce of marijuana would no longer be a criminal offense under a bill that won the backing of a legislative committee yesterday. The bill, approved by the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Committee on … Continue reading →

Via JMBzine, who writes Oh, great, another stupid Oklahoma drug law. Link Oklahoma teenagers too young to buy alcohol are getting high by drinking bottles of cough syrup containing a non-regulated ingredient, according to supporters of a bill approved by … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, the state senate Health and Human Services Committee is scheduled to hold hearings on a medical marijuana bill — S.B. 2568. If you live in Illinois, call or write your State Senator today. Here’s an easy way to send … Continue reading →

Sometime this past week, Allan pointed out to me this bit of nonsense by Cliff Kincaid: Soros Infiltrates the Conservative Movement. Cliff, who is an ignorant drug war cheerleader and always writes bizarre anti-reformer screeds (example), decided to complain about … Continue reading →

Julian Sanchez is blogging at CPAC Professional virgin Ben Shapiro just strolled by talking about his highly nuanced position on the war on drugs: “People who use marijuana piss me off, so I support their prosecution.” Which seems more or … Continue reading →

Flex Your Rights blog has the info on 87 women who were illegally searched for drugs at O’Hare airport. They’ll be receiving a $1.9 million settlement. At airports, only “reasonable suspicion” is necessary to justify brief detentions and searches, but … Continue reading →

Link (thanks to Matt) OK, here’s the smart, reasonable public official who knows how to set priorities: Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek, who oversees the University of Iowa in Iowa City, told a legislative committee he would treat possession of … Continue reading →