Archive for the 'marijuana' Category
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..>>New Day, new D.A., Improved Weed Policy
Despite David Gambacorta’s stupid take on the topic (it is the Philadelphia Daily News after all, a newspaper that provides op-ed space to writers who approve of child molestation), District Attorney Seth Williams and Justice Seamus McCaffery are doing the right thing by downgrading marijuana possession as a crime:
The problem, explained state Supreme Court Justice [...]
California: Smart Pot Policy, Dumb Republican Reaction
Good news in California:
The state Assembly’s public safety committee voted 4-3 on the measure that would tax and regulate marijuana in the same way alcohol is controlled.
But the health committee also must approve the measure by Friday before the full Assembly can consider it, an unlikely scenario.
The health committee is not considering the bill during [...]
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 [...]
Legalize Marijuana
LTE: Philadelphia Daily News
I distilled my post about the execrable Christine Flowers and her ridiculous diatribe about marijuana into a letter, published today in the daily news:
E CHRISTINE Flowers’ March 27 op-ed opposing legalizing drugs:
The piece starts with a false construct. No one credible is talking about legalizing all drugs in response to Mexico’s drug war or our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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