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Red Ribbon Week promotes anti-drug use I hope they’re promoting responsible anti-drug use. You wouldn’t want young people abusing anti-drugs. I also enjoy the fact that “Throughout the week, junior high and high school parents will have a chance to … Continue reading
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GOP Senators discover states’ rights when convenient
From the Hill The Senate narrowly defeated an amendment on Thursday that would have established a commission to research avenues for reparing the “broken” criminal justice system after Republicans said it would encroach on states’ constitutional rights to conduct their … Continue reading
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Governors Highway Safety Association rebukes Drug Czar on drugged driving
I found this article at The Auto Channel that, at first, would seem to be in support of the ONDCP’s effort to use driving laws as a back door method to criminalizing internal possession of marijuana. Oct. 13, 2011: The … Continue reading
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Lawrence O’Donnell on legalization
An outstanding rant on marijuana legalization and the latest Gallup poll by Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. You have to sit through a commercial and MSNBC’s slow loading, but I think it’s worth it. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, … Continue reading
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I don’t usually give free advertising to pizza joints
… but I’ll make an exception in this case. Remember the licensed medical marijuana user in Denver who ordered pizza and not only did the Papa John’s driver call the police on him, but Papa John’s Pizza supported that action? … Continue reading
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Red Meat (Updated)
Update: Here’s another one — needs some commenting: Don’t legalize marijuana in the name of medicine by John Redman, executive director of Californians for a Drug-Free Youth. Unfortunately, legalization groups have convinced CMA and other medical societies that the process … Continue reading
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Joining Forces
Richard Feldman, President, Independent Firearm Owners Association, Inc. writes in the Huffington Post: Gun Rights & Marijuana Reform — Issues Joined! As President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association (IFOA), I believe the time has come for activists across the … Continue reading
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The right jobs
While the government shuts down dispensaries and undermines every effort to have legitimate jobs in the medical marijuana industry thereby driving medical marijuana users to criminals for supply, the Drug Czar and Joe Biden travel to Philadelphia to assure police … Continue reading
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Despite decades of propaganda, and multiple government agencies and corporate interests actively opposing it….
… 50 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana use. Gallup Poll. That’s because of us.
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Corrupt
A good read at the UKCIA News Blog: Stupid, scared of the Daily Mail or corrupt? Drug law reform activists have a problem, quite a serious problem. One of the assumptions UKCIA was based on, and more importantly groups such … Continue reading
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