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FIFTEEN REASON TO LEGALIZE DRUGS
There are no panaceas in the world but, for social afflictions, legalizing drugs comes possibly as close as any single policy could. Removing legal penalties from the production, sale and use of "controlled substances" would alleviate at least fifteen of our biggest social or political problems. Select this, cut it out, paste it and read carefully. Then pass it along!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2003 4:36pm PDT
Act now to support medical marijuana
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. Tell him or her to vote in favor of the
Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2003 11:12am PDT
San Francisco Narcotics Officers Turn Medical Marijuana Patients Over to the Feds
SF medical cannabis patients filing formal complaints against the police department for turning them over to the federal governmnent. This is in direct violation of the SF "medical cannabis sanctuary" resolution. Patients demand accountability from officials....
Posted: Mon, Jul 21, 2003 7:44pm PDT
Addicted to Failure
It?s time for Latin America to start breaking with Washington over the war on drugs....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 11:36am PDT
A New Hard-Liner at the DEA
Though the Republican Party prides itself on being a champion of state sovereignty, one need only mention a phrase like "medical marijuana" to see how quickly the Administration of George W. Bush becomes hostile to the notion of the autonomy of states....
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2003 10:23am PDT
Ex-Felons, the Right to Vote and Rev. Al Sharpton
comments and study on the subject....
Posted: Sat, Jul 12, 2003 3:53pm PDT
BTL:Growing Numbers of Law Enforcement Officials Denounce Drug War as a...
...Public Policy Failure. Interview with Jack Cole, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Jul 5, 2003 4:25am PDT
Narcs Hassle Senior in SF
Undercover San Francisco narcotics officers hassle senior who merely sits on sidewalk reading newspaper -- twice....
Posted: Wed, Jul 2, 2003 1:02pm PDT
Facts about Narconon
The facts about Scientology's front organization "Narconon:" dangerous and ineffective!...
Posted: Sun, Jun 29, 2003 3:51pm PDT
Study: Pot Doesn't Cause Permanent Brain Damage
Smoking marijuana will certainly affect perception, but it does not cause permanent brain damage, researchers from the University of California at San Diego said on Friday in a study....
Posted: Sun, Jun 29, 2003 9:35am PDT
rave act uced against medical pot/political activism. . .repost
rave act used against benifit for medical pot...
Posted: Tue, Jun 24, 2003 12:20am PDT
Court rules HIV not proven to cause 'AIDS'.
After years of claims by the AIDS establishment that a link between HIV and immune supression had been established a High Court found the claim without merit and a unfounded deception. This is the first legal trail of the HUV/AIDS hypothesis and a historic defeat for AID$ Inc....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:39pm PDT
Thailand. U.S.-trained army drug-war. Tortures man nearly to death recently. Akha Journal.
The Thai Army receives U.S. training. Note the last half of forwarded message to see your U.S. tax dollars at work recently in torturing somenne nearly to death. This is the normal result of U.S. training of armies and police worldwide, and why the U.S. is hated worldwide....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2003 3:17am PDT
FREE DRUGS OR FREE SPEECH?!?
The Federal Government is using the RAVE Act to squash free speech. Does anyone else feel as strongly outraged about this as I do? I really think something should be done, like a demonstration.
J. Latimer...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 6:17pm PDT
Support SB420
Sen. John Vasconcellos is pushing medical marijuana registration bill SB420, for the third time in four years, but there's no sign yet that Gov. Gray Davis will deviate from his past refusals to sign it into law.
------------------At least they chose an appropriate Bill number :0)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:53am PDT
The Importance of the Skeptical Jury
The light sentence received by Ed Rosenthal still leaves him a felon. It is to be hoped that future federal marijuana trial jurors will better understand their rights and responsibilities....
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2003 9:19pm PDT
Microgram Bulletin
Long shrouded in mystery, Microgram Bulletin is a monthly newsletter published by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Forensic Sciences since 1967....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2003 6:26pm PDT
Ed Rosenthal a Free Man!
California 'Ganja Guru' Sentenced to Day in Jail. Released with "time served"....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2003 11:19am PDT
Legalize It Ed Rosenthal Walks Free!
Ed Rosenthal, deputized by the City of Oakland to grow medical marijuana for patients under California's Proposition 215, then convicted by a federal jury walks free, after receiving a one-day sentence from the judge today....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2003 10:18am PDT