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Link From what I can tell, 21 year old Patrick Lee was tasered up to 19 times, plus police used pepper spray and other “physical force.” Two days later, he died of cardiac arrest. Blood testing at the hospital revealed … Continue reading →

Via NORML, Police arrested an estimated 771,608 persons for marijuana violations in 2004, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. The total is the highest ever recorded by the FBI, and comprised 44.2 percent … Continue reading →

Trinity College in Hartford, CT is hosting a drug conference this Friday and Saturday, organized by City Councilman Robert Painter. (See article in the Hartford Courant.) While the blurb on the conference page… The conference is organized to bring law … Continue reading →

Let those dopers be by former police chief Norm Stamper, in today’s LA Times. This is a must read. It is also a must-send, to all your discussion lists, to your friends. A bold plan for the legalization of all … Continue reading →

Via Last One Speaks comes this story from Decatur, Alabama. As long as they think you have drugs, your 4th Amendment rights don’t matter, your possessions don’t matter, the lives of your pets don’t matter, and in many cases, your … Continue reading →

Are people allowing themselves to actually be bolder in their thinking these days? From a small Pennsylvania town… Amid the flurry of voices on the phone cheering a column about an ex-cop advocating drug legalization was that of Dr. Joseph … Continue reading →

“bullet” Melissa Etheridge smoked pot while she had breast cancer. “Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana,” Etheridge says in an interview to air Sunday on “Dateline NBC” … Continue reading →

One of the classic reefer madness claims was that smoking pot would destroy your brain cells. Even though that was thoroughly debunked long ago, this wrong-headed assertion still pops up regularly. Not a single legitimate study has found any long-term … Continue reading →

In a nationally coordinated effort, operation Justify Our Budget (or JOB, for short) came to a stunning conclusion today. 487 DEA agents, working with local law enforcement officials, went into stores in 73 cities around the country and bought bags … Continue reading →

The DEA is triumphantly announcing the conclusion of Operation Long Whine (have they run out of good operation names?). Reports say they seized a bunch of coke, meth, and cash, and arrested 28 people. DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy said … Continue reading →