Archive for the 'drug war' Category
Christine Flowers Is, as Usual, an Idiot.
One of the most tiresome things about blogging is that you continually have to respond to the same cast of hackneyed, boring, wrong-headed, disingenuous, and just plain stupid writers over and over and over again. case in point: Christine Flowers’ typically hackneyed, boring, wrong-headed, disingenuous, and just plain stupid column on marijuana legalization today. [...]
Read More..>>Another Reason to Decriminalize Marijuana
Anyone else keeping up with the “Tainted Justice” series in the Daily News? It’s an ongoing investigation looking into a corrupt cop, his informer, and the havoc that has been wreaked as a result of their collusion. The city has to revisit “scores of drug cases”, and is probably exposed to quite a few [...]
Read More..>>Loretta Sanchez: Maybe It’s Time to Legalize Marijuana
gee, ya think?
more at daily Kos on how the drug war has failed, how mexico’s drug war is spilling over into our borders, and much more.
If we legalized marijuana, we would create an entirely new revenue stream, take pressure off our police and free them to go after real criminals like rapists and murderers, and [...]
Phawker: Marijuana Legalization Actually More Popular than the GOP
Pot is more popular than Republicans:
The first poll, conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, has 40 percent of Americans in support of legalizing the drug and 46 percent opposed. The second, conducted in January by CBS News, has 41 percent in favor of legalization and 52 percent against. And a third poll, conducted by Zogby [...]
California Considers Marijuana Legalization: When Will Philly and PA Wake Up?
Tom Ammiano wants to effectively legalize– and tax — California’s trade in cannabis.
AB 390 “would remove all penalties in California law on cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, or use of marijuana, natural THC, or paraphernalia for persons over the age of 21,” Ammiano’s press secretary Quintin Mecke told the San Francisco Weekly…
“California has the opportunity [...]
Dave Davies Discovers What I Learned Two Weeks Ago.
By Chris Satullo’s definition, it appears dave davies is a cynic:
HAVE YOU PLAYED the Humpty-Dumpty Game yet?
You have one more chance tonight, at the Pinn Memorial Baptist Church, in West Philadelphia.
This is the exercise where Mayor Nutter’s top people put briefing materials in your hand and ask you to put the broken pieces of Philadelphia’s [...]
COMMON SENSE FOR PHILLY: DECRIMINALIZE POT, IMPLEMENT CIVIL FINES NOW!
Daniel U-A:
For example, I think it is unfair, inhumane and bizarrely stupid that we have about 1,000 people in jail (at a cost of more than 30k per year per prisoner) who are accused of non-violent offenses, who are deemed not to be safety risks, but who cannot afford the nominal bail that is set [...]
Another Way To Save Money: REFORM THE DRUG LAWS
Did anybody see yesterday’s news about the drug informer who lied to the cops for years:
For seven years, Martinez has worked as one of the city’s most productive police informants, bringing down more than 200 drug and gun dealers.
But Martinez now says that some of the police jobs were tainted, rooted in lies and motivated [...]
“Tough Times, Tough Choices”: Talk About Bogus!
Just the title of the Penn-sponsored budget forums “Tough Times, Tough Choices”, sets my radar off, as Philadelphians are set up to decide which programs we should cut, rather than how we can continue to pay for these essential services. A number of people I know have personal experience fighting what they called the University’s [...]
Read More..>>Save Philadelphia: End the War on Pot.
The Asylum Street Spankers, “Winning the War on Drugs”, thanks to kinmo in comments
penalties for marijuana possession in PA (warning, pdf):
Possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 30 days in jail and a fine of up to $500.
The penalties for possession of greater than 30 grams [...]
