Author Archives: Pete Guither

A big thanks to Kevin, who sent me the August editorial in Nature Neuroscience titled “Brewing a pot of hysteria.” Although the benefits of smoking marijuana remain controversial, the government has already decided that THC itself has medical benefits. Marinol … Continue reading →

Michael Mayo has an excellent column in today’s Sun-Sentinel: An ounce of pot, 10 bullets and one failed drug war “What in the hell were they doing with a SWAT team?” asked Eleanor Shockett, a retired Miami-Dade circuit judge who … Continue reading →

Via Cannabis News, check out this article by Laura McPhee in Nuvo (Indiana) Cannabis Cure: Miracle or Myth? However, an examination of the facts about marijuana demonstrates that the most common and dangerous myths about America‰s most widely used illegal … Continue reading →

Link CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – The United States has revoked the U.S. visas of six Venezuelan military officers, including a top anti-drugs chief, just days after President Hugo Chavez ended cooperation with Washington’s anti-narcotics agency. Of course, the interesting thing … Continue reading →

It’s official. Computer games have caused more overdose deaths than marijuana.

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Libby at Last One Speaks has this story about Marc Craven Caven, a career snitch who uses entrapment as his normal method of operation. Here’s what he does. After getting hired by a police force, he goes looking for people … Continue reading →

I just realized that it’s been some time since I gave you an update on the HHS stalling tactics. As a recap, this is about the efforts by Americans for Safe Access to use a new law called the Data … Continue reading →

“bullet” Keith Gottschalk used to be a talk show host here in Central Illinois and I got to know him through that and through his blogging as well. He’s got a column yesterday in Rabble (a progressive Canadian publication) about … Continue reading →

There was some additional information in the papers today, and I planned an update, but Radley’s done it very well already. Go read. There’s no way that this killing can be justified. Because there is no justification for the police … Continue reading →