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US Sentencing Guidelines, an update Last week the Supreme Court once again reassured federal judges that the guidelines were not mandatory, but advisory — and judges don't even have to presume that the sentences imposed in these guides are reasonable. Interesting. This case is called Nelson, and the same issues appeared in the cases called Booker, Blakely, Apprendi and more. It's a legal argument that has been coming before the Supreme Court for over a dozen years, but don't quote me -- give or take a few years at most. Past in...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 8:03am PST
Michael Phelps: Poster Boy for Wheaties Eaters and Bong Users Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 : I wasn’t that surprised when my friend e-mailed the story of Olympic golden boy, Michael Phelps, getting caught with his lips wrapped around a tall glass bong pipe during a party last November. I honestly didn’t think I would be seeing Phelps until the next string of Olympics games in 2012. Yes, yes gold is great, but apparently cannabis is waaaaaay better, as I’m sure Phelps would agree....
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2009 7:31am PST
Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Collective ordinance process has been corrupted 50% of the medical cannabis providers in
operation are not being represented and are being thrown under the bus by a
small group of collective owners here. I sat in chambers last week and
watched in horror as certain activists and so called activist group leaders
called on city leaders to take action and close almost 150 medical cannabis
dispensaries that are operating in Los Angeles....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2009 1:55pm PST
4th Tues Films: American Drug War 909 12th St, Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2009 9:53pm PST
Addiction and Control 
Meth is an upper. It is used as (inappropriate) self - medication for depression. Problems don’t come about without cause. The methamphetamine problem didn’t drop out of the sky. There are biological and social causes of meth abuse and they need to be fully discussed by an informed citizenry....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 12:53pm PST
Protest DEA Raids Under Obama Administration Good news and good work to all who have contacted the White House about the DEA raid
on Holistic Solutions two days ago. If you haven't called yet, please take a moment
to do so--sounds like staff are listening! Some activists' experiences are below:...
Posted: Sun, Jan 25, 2009 11:47am PST
j27 war against town of TULIA [ downtown SF]...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2009 10:16am PST
New Juarez police chief decapitated after 4 days CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The head of a new local police commander was left in an ice bucket at his police station in the Ciudad Juarez area, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
The city, which lies just across the border from El Paso, Texas, in the state of Chihuahua, has one of the highest homicide rates in Mexico. El Universal reported that Martin Castro Martinez was one of 15 people killed execution-style in 24 hours....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 1:31pm PST
Modesto Needle Exchange Mono Park (off Santa Cruz Ave,) in the Airport District of Modesto Ca,...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 1:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 6:55pm PST
Free screening of medical marijuana documentary Central Library Auditorium (3rd floor)
820 E Street
San Diego, CA 92101...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 8, 2009 2:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 3:08pm PST
Rump Measure K Committee Excludes Public Comment, Loses Audio Tape On December 15th, the Measure K Committee held a meeting that initially locked out the public, excluded me from oral communications, and refused all comment on agenda items other than one. The Measure K Committee is charged with making sure the SCPD respect the 2006 Initiative requiring enforcement of marijuana "crimes" in private be the lowest priority. Defended by one member of the Committee, I responded with a letter to the staff member Tina Scholl demanding the Committee redo its meetin...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 3:20am PST
Cocaine plane trail is open challenge for Obama administration A twin-propeller Cessna 402C aircraft was seized near Carepa, Colombia, just across the border from Panama in mid-December of last year while it was in the process of attempting to transport about 850 kilos of cocaine to a suspected destination in Central America — and an ultimate arrival point in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:27am PST
Chihuahua Government Say Decriminalizing Drugs is a Subject That Can't be Avoided Mexican lawmakers and legal experts decry El Paso Mayor John Cook's veto of a City Council resolution that proposed a debate over drug decriminalization...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 8:26am PST
Appeal Hearing For Medical Marijuana Case US v. Rosenthal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 95 7th St. (@ Mission St.), Courtroom #3, San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 9:00am PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2009 11:12am PST
EZLN Criticizes the Drug War During the Festival of Dignified Rage in Chiapas, Subcomandante Marcos breaks the EZLN's silence on the drug war...
Posted: Sun, Jan 4, 2009 6:37pm PST
Mexico's Drug War Death Toll: 8,463 and Counting A record-breaking 5,612 people were executed in Mexico’s drug war in 2008, making the drug war more deadly than the drugs...
Posted: Thu, Jan 1, 2009 10:24am PST
Black & Brown Equitable Drug Policies Coalition Monthly meeting 1260 Mission Street (Cindy Sheeham Former Office), between 9th & 8th Streets...
Event Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 6:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2008 10:35pm PST
2008: The Year In Review - NORML's Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy State provisions allowing for the possession and use of medical marijuana do not conflict with federal anti-drug laws, according to a series of California court rulings. In two separate cases, the California Supreme Court refused to hear challenges to the state's 12-year-old marijuana law finding that counties are obligated to issue identification cards to qualified patients and that police cannot seize marijuana from state-sanctioned medical pot users. Read the full story at...............
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2008 11:00pm PST
Weekly MPJC Meet-San Rafael MPJC meets at 7 p.m.every Monday night at the
First United Methodist Church,
9 Ross Valley Dr., San Rafael. Come join us....
Event Date: Mon, Dec 29, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2008 9:45am PST
Brutalizing Disabled Hip Hop Artists Quadriplegic Latino Hip-Hop Artist Racially Profiled by Roswell police...
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2008 9:16pm PST
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