Category: Drug War
...(Former Prosecutor Jim) Gray is part of a growing national movement to rethink pot laws. From California, where lawmakers may outright legalize marijuana, to New Jersey, which implemented a medical use law Jan. 19, states are taking unprecedented steps to loosen marijuana restrictions. Advocates of legalizing marijuana say generational, political and cultural shifts have taken the USA to a unique moment in its history of drug prohibition that could topple 40 years of tough restrictions on both medicinal and recreational marijuana use.
Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
Someone named Lawrence Schweinsburg wrote a letter to the editor of the Baltimore Sun this week to criticize Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Mayor Cheye Calvo and to offer a general defense of the widespread use of SWAT teams. His letter is worth breaking down and addressing piece by piece.
An agency of UN drug warrior busybodies has released it's annual report on the state of compliance with it's dictates recommendations to impose tyranny under the guise of the drug war. In the report, the International Narcotics Control Board complained about governments minding their own damn business when it comes to what sovereign individuals put into their own bodies (number 453 of this report.
After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a newly confident region is no longer prepared to swallow its fatal Prohibition error. Indeed, after the expenditure of billions of dollars and the violent deaths of tens of thousands of people, a suitable epitaph for America's longest "war" may well be the plan, in Bolivia, for every family to be given the right to grow coca in its own backyard.
Finally, some common sense on marijuana laws is coming home to Virginia. And, it's coming from a republican, no less! Not only would H.B. 1136 allow doctors to prescribe marijuana as a medicine, but another bill sponsored by delegate - and pharmacist - Harvey Morgan, H.B. 1134, would go a long way toward relegalizing marijuana in the old dominion. Here's what the bill would do, according to NORML:
