Archive for the 'drug war' Category
Noseless Pig Finds Truffle
Please grow a mustache Governor Christie
Mr. Creosote says medical marijuana law can go forward
TRENTON, N.J. – Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that he will allow New Jersey to move forward in implementing its medical marijuana law despite his concerns over whether federal authorities could prosecute state regulators.
After saying last month that he wanted assurance from [...]
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude. Hamid’s Not Here.
The Afghan National Police, funded on our dime to the tune of $27 billion, doing bong hits before going out on patrol.
We can’t find money to create jobs in America; we can’t figure out how to fix our crumbling infrastructure; we’ve got 10% official unemployment (and probably closer to 20% unofficially) and we’re spending $27 [...]
Read More..>>Tony Hayward is a Piece of Shit.
Don’t fight the power, just shoot the motherfucker…
Via Weather Underground:
Satellite imagery today from NASA’s MODIS instrument confirms that a substantial tongue of oil has moved southeast from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and entered the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Current. The Loop Current is an ocean current that transports warm Caribbean water through the Yucatan [...]
Hey, Look! The Democrats Do Something Good for a Change!
Via Dan Savage, the feds end the ban on needle exchanges:
For years, needle exchange programs in three dozen states have provided clean needles to intravenous drug users as a way to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. But the programs have relied solely on state and local funding because of a longtime ban [...]
Always Late: Conservatives Finally Admit What Lefties Have Known for Decades
A video that’s appropriate in more ways than one: Always Late, played by a Wurlitzer
Ross Douthat takes a look at the US prison system and realizes something that lefties like myself have recognized and argued for years: incarcerating anyone possible for any piddling reason imaginable has been a disaster:
2.3 million Americans are behind bars. Our [...]
On Not Seeing One’s Own Nose
Item: Marijuana farming rebounds in economic hard times
Marijuana farming rebounds in economic hard times
Growth industry: Recession blamed as marijuana farming increases from California to Appalachia
Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country’s top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.
The [...]
Consequences of Ctriminalized Marijuana
Until it’s taxed and regulated, shit like this will keep happening as Mexican drug cartels move into our national forests to grow pot:
Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, and there are many more pot farms hidden in remote [...]
Legalize Marijuana
Greenwald on Drug Decrim
I couldn’t express it better myself:
Mysteries of logical reasoning
(1) Anyone who favors marijuana legalization just wants to get high without being hassled, and anyone who favors drug decriminalization generally is or wants to be a drug user.
(2) Anyone who opposes a return to alcohol prohibition is almost certainly an out-of-control drunk.
(3) Anyone who cares about [...]
Saying One Thing, Doing Another: Not Change I Can Believe In
Obama, last month:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since [...]
