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I’m strongly in favor of the efforts of WikiLeaks to help create some transparency in our Government. Unlike the authoritarians that seem to dominate much of our media, many of whom appear to want to kill or imprison the leakers … Continue reading →

It really is pretty pathetic to continue to hear such this nonsense. This latest moron is Adam Yamaguchi in a promo at Huffington Post for Current TV’s Vanguard. My team decided to do this story after we’d come across a … Continue reading →

William Michael Smith at Houston Press has a delightful column: Willie Nelson’s Pot Bust: A Milestone In Marijuana Policy? We’ll bet Gov. Rick Perry’s anus puckered up tighter than an unfracked shale formation when some aide walked up and whispered … Continue reading →

The drug czar is once again pushing his ridiculous drugged driving crusade with more meaningless data, and while the press isn’t completely rolling over dead, they’re comatose and the fact that they even print this stupidity is an insult to … Continue reading →

OK, now that we’ve decided that banning everything is the way to go, rather than regulating products or educating people, what’s dangerous combinations will we be going after next? Oh no!!! It’s alcohol and… dessert topping. My God, they’ll get … Continue reading →

Via Grits for Breakfast, there was an excellent piece at NPR last week about the Richardson family in Clarksville, Texas and their run-in with the drug war: Civil Rights, Judicial Bias Surround Texas Drug Case by Wade Goodwyn. It’s a … Continue reading →

Important news on the medical marijuana front. SB 1381 is to be called for a vote tomorrow, Tuesday the 30th. Patients & Supporters are at the Capitol lobbying lawmakers right now for the final push. During this veto session we … Continue reading →

Based on the excellent, though occasionally derailed, discussion we were having at Opposing prohibition is not designed to be a simple solution to the drug problem, it appears that it would be good to talk definitions again. The definitions of … Continue reading →

I am so damned tired of hearing prohibitionists say that nobody goes to jail for marijuana. We all know that’s a lie. I want to mention one particular area where this particular lie is especially egregious. Unfortunately, I get letters … Continue reading →

Remember during the Prop 19 debate how everyone (ie, RAND) suddenly got bent out of shape when legalizers said that a large percent of Mexican drug criminals’ income came from Marijuana? (even though that number originally came from the government) … Continue reading →