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You look nervous…
Again, via TalkLeft (as always on top of everything and incredibly prolific), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that nervousness alone cannot support a vehicle search when police stop the car for a traffic violation. The court invalidated … Continue reading
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Sigh…
Via TalkLeft and NORML: Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 45 Seconds Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 697,082 persons for marijuana violations in 2002, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime … Continue reading
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What are they smoking?
Via Vice Squad, this article by Deroy Murdock at NRO All seriousness aside, as funnyman Steve Allen often said, federal drug warriors keep embarrassing themselves by enforcing pointless, oppressive policies that merely ignite tax dollars as if with a Zippo … Continue reading
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Drug WarRant Merchandise now available!
I decided to open up a store at CafeShops with Drug WarRant T-shirts, mugs, underwear, and more. Here’s a few of the designs available on Drug WarRant products: A tribute to the pharmaceutical industry. My own response to the Drug … Continue reading
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Odds and Ends
Welcome to the folks from Matthew’s Are You Outraged? blog. It’s always great when another blogger opposed to the drug war stops by. You can get a feel for his posts by checking out The evil of Ashcroft and the … Continue reading
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U.S.A. Track and Field runs the wrong direction…
In USATF announces “Zero Tolerance” anti-doping plan, the organization is looking to step up efforts to stop athlete cheating and the use of performance enhancing drugs. But… … they’ve proposed a summit of major U.S. sports leagues be hosted by … Continue reading
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New Cars Shipped with Hemp Stash in the Door
That’s right – if you have a new Chrysler Sebring or a number of other new cars, they may have come complete with a supply of hemp. Of course, hemp is the industrial version of the marijuana plant, and before … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday to Me…
Yep, today’s my birthday, which means I’m… Well, let’s just say that I’m old enough to remember when we weren’t declaring an all-out war on our citizens, when drug policy meant caring for those who were addicted, before the expansion … Continue reading
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Drug Action Network
Thanks to Andrew Somers for featuring Drug WarRant on the About.com’s Civil Liberties page. Be sure to check out Somers’ organization: Drug Action Network. A sample of his work from “Keeping Drugs Away from Your Children” It’s a sad, indeed … Continue reading
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“A.M. Rosenthal, Drug War Stooge”
Last week, we were treated to one of the standard drug war cheerleader columns that could have been a press release from the Drug Czar. But this was by a Pulitzer Prize and Light of Truth winning, Presidential Medal of … Continue reading
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