tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89565807197300730862011-11-27T16:27:45.315-08:00A new word for a new way...The sane, humane way. Think DEHIBITION!Mycosnoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956580719730073086.post-88799780455022985772009-09-02T10:10:00.000-07:002009-09-02T10:13:33.072-07:00

On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, includ- ing cocaine and heroin. Under the new legal framework, all drugs were “decriminalized,” not “legalized.” Thus, drug possession for personal use and drug usage itself are still legally prohib- ited, but violations of those prohibitions are deemed to be exclusively administrative viola- tions and are

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A fact that pretty much encapsulates the entire conservative agenda, one that cannot exist without telling lies to itself as a way of reducing the chronic fear that drives the conservative mindset. http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

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Report to Congress - Chapter 5 - Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy - Feb 1995Empirical Findings on Crack and Powder Cocaine and Psychopharmacologically Driven Crime The limited evidence to date suggests that psychopharmacologically driven crime may be least important in explaining the association between crime and both crack and powder cocaine. With respect to violent crime, the 1990

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Obama's Drug Czar Lies About Medical Marijuana 'Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,' Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske said in downtown Fresno while discussing a multiagency effort to eradicate marijuana in eastern Fresno County, even though his boss, President Obama, campaigned on a pledge to stop bullying medical marijuana in California. cont... "

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Drug czar: Feds won't support legalized pot - Top Stories - fresnobee.com"

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World Health Organization global Cocaine Project Study suppressed by the United States for 13 years, 1995 June 13, 2009 Summary In March 1995, the WHO and UNICRI announced the publication of the results of a global study on cocaine. Information had been collected in 22 cities and 19 countries about the use of the coca leaf and

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‘We rarely have our facts straight early on’ Who is keeping them accountable? May 7th, 2009 · Raphael Alexander (National Post Editorial) - Just when you think nothing more scandalous could be discovered at the Braidwood Inquiry overseeing the taser-related death of 40-year-old Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport on October 14, 2007, the former commanding officer in charge of

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January 28, 2009 6:48 PM "And I thought, No, I'm not going to sit here passively and wait for it to happen. I wanted to go to "them," whoever "they" were, grab them by the neck, and get them before they could get us." DHS scientists, looking into the mindset of those who use terrorism, have focused nearly all their attention on one specific group. This group is notable for the

Mycosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8956580719730073086.post-29828887682523239172008-10-23T15:20:00.001-07:002008-12-17T12:48:28.250-08:00

Here's another example of the bizarre level of hypocrisy that the prohibitionists behind the WODs must engage in in order to defend their motives. Note how, at the end of this abstract, the authors compare this plants toxic effects as being of a sort that strongly resembles the damage seen in the organs of chronic users of alcohol --- and acetaminophen! --- or "Tylenol" IOW. How can LEOs live

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Weather Underground: Honoring the Cops They Killed - PoliceLinkFor persons who have been granted the authority to give and take life, I see a frightening disregard for facts, truth and honesty here. Doesn't anyone care for the truth of a given situation? Or is following the herd preferable to being honest? Because a look outside the echo-chamber so many seem to prefer learning from will quickly

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Supreme Court Backs Rights for Guantanamo Detainees » The FoundryHaving heard the name “Heritage Foundation” referred to as an old and venerable institution of the American political conservatives establishment, I am surprised and extremely saddened to find the level of discourse here only marginally better than one can find on any right-wing forum.As a matter of curiosity I spend a great deal of

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Todd Palin says contacts with his wife's administration were proper - Juneau EmpireWhat needs to be taken into account by political wonks and citizens concerned about the future, is that the term "conservative" doesn't apply to a description of a political ideolog.... or at least not in the sense that "fascism", "communism", "liberalism" are. It's actually a description of a personality profile.

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"front lines"? While I'm perfectly aware of the possibility of an LEO being injured or killed while in the performance of his duty, it seems somewhat of a leap to compare the danger an LEO faces when executing a warrant on a the residence of some crack-wh**re pimp with the attempt to capture/kill Mullah Omar or patrol the streets of Fallujah. When I look at the number of LEOs killed since alcohol

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Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on CannabisPatients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on Cannabis(PAIDOC) thepotlawhasfallen.caWhen race groups, religious groups, gay rights groups, or disabled groups see articles or comments in the media that they find offensive or damaging to their groups' way of life, they complain. When they hear government or law-enforcement

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BBC interview with Jack Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) + New Zealand interview with Judge Jerry Paradis also of LEAP + Poppygate Report with Glenn Greenway, Terry Nelson of LEAP, Doug McVay with Drug War Facts & CB premiere of "Eternal War" by Adult Users. MP3 LINK: http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/?q=audio/download/2045/FDBCB_091008.mp3

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What's Wrong With the Drug War?What's Wrong With the Drug War?Everyone has a stake in ending the war on drugs. Whether you’re a parent concerned about protecting children from drug-related harm, a social justice advocate worried about racially disproportionate incarceration rates, an environmentalist seeking to protect the Amazon rainforest or a fiscally conservative taxpayer you have a stake in

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Drug Policy Alliance Network: Alternatives to Marijuana Prohibition and the Drug War

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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America (says the Cato Institute, a highly influential Libertarian think-tank) Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law

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Jon Christian Ryter -- "No Knock" raid goes bad "NO KNOCK" RAID GOES BAD By Jon Christian Ryter August 8, 2008 NewsWithViews.com Prince George's County, Maryland police officers did not get the "no knock" warrant they sought from Circuit Court Judge Albert W. Northrup but they broke down the door of Berwyn Heights, Maryland Mayor Cheye Calvo's home on July 29 anyway. The police were looking

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Dean Becker On Prohibition's Insanity Even law-enforcement officers and officials have come to the conclusion that the drug-war is a costly and cruel policy that has proven to be as misguided as Alcohol Prohibition. Unfortunately there remains a core group of LEOs whose conservative political agenda requires them to keep the status quo in place due their irrational fear of change.They are echoed

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Jackson Mayor Is Indicted Over Crime-Fighting Tactics writePost();new_york_times:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EFDD1331F935A2575AC0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon= By SHAILA DEWAN Published: September 16, 2006 The mayor of Jackson, Miss., was indicted on six felony charges Friday after months of criticism and warnings that his unorthodox crime-fighting tactics might put him

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FOPChuck CanterburyNational PresidentExecutive Director Jim Pasco"Section 3103a(b), adopted as Section 213 of the USA PATRIOT Act, allows courts to authorize investigators to give delayed notice that a search warrant has been executed in certain narrow circumstances. Delayed notice under Section 213 can only be used when immediate notificationmay result in endangering the life of an individual,

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....that realized the need to keep the deception started by Anslinger long ago. The Fraternal Order of Police is a trade union started many decades ago to protect their interest. It was in place when the Temperance Movement criminalized alcohol users. Even if the cops of the day were indifferent to Prohibition, the Union was well aware of the spiking crime-rate, and more importantly, the HUGE

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Only cops and crooks have benefited from $2.5 trillion spent fighting trafficking. By David W. Fleming and James P. Gray The United States has been spending $69 billion a year worldwide for the last 40 years, for a total of $2.5 trillion, on drug prohibition -- with little to show for it. Is anyone actually benefiting from this war? Six groups come to mind. The first group are the drug lords

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