Colorado to limit free speech of pro-marijuana magazines

After a wrongful arrest, prosecutors frequently offer the dropping of charges, or expugement of arrest records, if the person wrongly arrested agrees to not sue. This is related to the practice of a wrongfully arrested person agreeing to a settlment, but banned from...

$1 trillion wasted on the war on drugs, time to end it now

Since the start of the drug war we have spent over $1 trillion dollars on the drug war and the rates of drug addiction are just as high as they were in the 1960s. Simply, what a waste of money. Waste of lives. Innocent men and women killed by police who search the wrong...

One man loses his job, and another man his life, for using pot

While support for marijuana legalization is rising in America, and there is overwhelming support for medical marijuana legalization, medical marijuana patients still suffer harsh discrimination. Sometimes they can lose their job, and sometimes they can lose their life. In the...

NFL player busted in prostitution sting & marijuana & gay right

Issues in the news:I. Montana finally revoked its' anti-gay/ anti-sodomy law. This is though their state supreme court and the U.S. Supreme Court, had already overturned all such bans. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas continue to have such bans on their books.Indeed, in 2009, years...

GOP withdrawals med. marijuana bill because voters harass?

Issues in the news: I. Fox News, the propaganda arm of the religious right-wing in America, is upset that Google didn't do one of their famous holiday doodle screens with an Easter theme, on Easter. Who did they honor that day? Well, one of the greatest labor leaders that...

Senator Paul rightly opposing mandatory minimums on drug sentence

I don't agree with Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky on every issue, but I sure agree with him that the War on Drugs is destroying our liberty, our Constitutional rights and our freedoms. It is awful public policy. It leads to SWAT raids on the wrong houses in the dead of night...

GOP withdrawals med. pot bill because voters "harass" lawmakers?

Issues in the news: I. Fox News, the propaganda arm of the religious right-wing in America, is upset that Google didn't do one of their famous holiday doodle screens with an Easter theme, on Easter. Who did they honor that day? Well, one of the greatest labor leaders...

Court to take up marriage equality today and oh about Rihanna

Well, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on the anti-same sex marriage referendum of California. A referendum that was heavily funded by the Catholic and Mormon churches. I guess Catholics had some money left over after paying child abuse cases. This could be...

Since we ban marijuana, should we ban peanuts also?

Thoughts on a few different things. I was watching a college basketball game played at the University of Alabma's homecourt. I don't think I am the only person who has realized this but the scarlet capital letter A on their mid-court looks just like the capital A that atheist...

Tim Tebow and woman pulled over for supposed pot leaf sticker

About issues in the news: Tim Tebow, who seems to be a nice guy but really is an awful quarterback, was going to speak at a church by ultra rightwing Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffres. Jeffress, known for his rampant homophobia and loathing of anyone who doesn't agree with him,...

Bloomberg: Marijuana Arrests In NYC Will Mean A Desk Appearance

Read More: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/bloomberg-marijuana-arrests-in-nyc-will.html New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday during his final State of the City address that those caught with “small amounts” of marijuana will no longer have to...

Pro-drug reformer prosecuted for activism

In New Hampshire in January of 2008, a police officer tried to get talk show host Ian Bernard charged with a criminal offense for the host's promotion of a protest against anti-marijuana laws. A pro-marijuana reformer, James Carroll, held a quanity of marijuana out in the...

How civil asset forfeiture allows police to take your money

Civil asset forfeiture is where the government can take your property, even if they never convicted you of an offense. It's a blatant violation of due process. But, we as Americans allow government to get away with it. Why? Well, part of the problem are the anti-drug zealots....