drug laws

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-drug-policy-reform-met-20150419-story.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/us-drug-policy-war-congress_n_998993.html Surely this should be struck out on 1st amendment rights. "Hey, while we're in Europe, let's pop over the border to Holland and have a couple of joints" 10 years in the slammer.

Well the genius at the helm of the Western Australian parliament has come up with a grand idea. Let's increase penalties for cannabis possession, use and cultivation, as well as distribution of smoking implements to minors, by a full order of magnitude shall we? So a $200 fine for possession of...

http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/30/white-house-overrides-2009-mem What they are saying doesn't even make sense: But who are they going after? Not gangs or cartels, but medical marijuana businesses authorized by state or local laws. The US needs a third-party or independent...

Link First conviction: probation. Second: ditto Third: ditto Fourth: life in prison. At age 35. No indication of any violence or any other crime except possession and intent to distribute. This shouldn't even be a crime at all. Why do most people accept the status quo? Does anyone really care...

Go Arnie! Now just stop opposing decriminalisation

Ok so if putting a doper in jail doesn't work then what would you suggest would? My first cousin whom I loathe killed his wife during a drug induced argument. He beat her to death. Ok he served eight years and was released. He molested a five year old girl when he got out and served eight...

While the world is concentrated on Gaza and the unfortunate death of nine people on the Mavi Marmara ship, Iran is planning mass executions on the anniversary of last year's riots. http://missionfreeiran.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/june-executions/ Apparently, 26 in total will be executed, 13...

Ouch... AP IMPACT: US drug war has met none of its goals One can only hope that the powers-that-be will clue in and realize that Drub Prohibition is a colossal waste of time, lives, and resources, and it's no longer worth pandering to the moral crusaders who view drugs as...

Linky I think that the political ground is shifting. This is probably going to pass. :) What will the Feds do then?

It has been alleged for years that the erradication of hemp from the US was a plot hatched by US robber barrons. I believe there is much credible evidence for this. Here's a nice start. Any comments? Thanks http://www.tpuc.org/content/marijuana-conspiracy "They say marijuana is dangerous. pot...

New study released SACRAMENTO — Medical marijuana is a promising treatment for some specific pain-related medical conditions, researchers from the University of California's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research reported Wednesday. State-funded studies conducted over the past decade have...

The so called War on Drugs is a sham. It has accomplished precisely nothing; drugs are as plentiful as ever. Untold billions of dollars wasted and millions of lives ruined for precisely nothing. The best thing that our country could do about drugs, both morally and pragmatically is end their...

The Home Secretary sacked his drugs advisor after he questioned the governments reclassification of cannabis and stated that the drug was less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco. On the BBC News tonight he claimed the government were pursuing a moral course...

So, is marijuana now "legal", in those states that have passed medical marijuana laws? ETA: I am looking for the video of his announcement, now. He said they'd no longer waste limited resources on places that are using marijuana under the law. Over a dozen states have passed medical...

Finally some progress on the drugs front, decriminalisation is still a long way off, but at least this one horrible policy is being ended. A big victory for state's rights advocates as well.

Report PDF: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/WHO-UNICRI%20cocaine%20study.pdf Pro-drug summary / commentary: http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/06/report-they-didnt-want-you-to-see.html

The legalisation of drugs is arguably resisted mostly by the fear of rampant drug-use once heroin, cannabis and crack are made available to buy. Would that actually be true? Is there any evidence to suggest that the legalisation of drugs would lead to a huge increase in the number of users and...

In 2001 Portugal decriminalized all drugs - including cocaine and heroine. Glenn Greenwald's report for the Cato Institute on how the country has fared with this policy has just been released and its worth reading: http://cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080 Abstract: On July 1, 2001, a...

Here In addition to ignoring the councils recommendations concerning the classification of cannabis, the UK government are now going to ignore their recommendations on ecstasy. I just wondered what everybody thought.

A former narcotics enforcement officer who has sold videos for the past few years about how to avoid being arrested on drug charges apparently set up a sting of his own recently. To prove a point that some police still uses FLIR infrared cameras to find suspected marijuana growing operations...

Who else is waking and baking for a nice Sunday 4/20? On a serious note I think it's a shame how many people we have in jail in this country for growing or using this weed. I personally don't think that it's harmful and that it should be legalized. However, I also make the argument that...

I was just looking at this chart, which rates ecstacy as the 14th most dangerous recreational drug. However, I have read before, and have never seen refuted, that ecstacy has never actually been proven to have caused any deaths at all. Is this true? Obvsiously people have died from contaminated...

A study done a short time ago, and recently published in The Lancet, demonstrates just how out of touch with reality drug prohibition laws are in the US and UK. Study Finds Alcohol and Tobacco More Harmful than Marijuana, LSD, or Ecstasy (Revisited) Excerpt: Still, drug classification has...

So this is something that has been on my mind lately. I am not a weed smoker. I did twice in high school but other than that nothing. But lately I have been thinking why is marijuana not legal? I know its a drug, but it seems to be much more harmless than alcohol. With our overcrowded prisons...

CBS story His site: http://www.nevergetbusted.com/ East Texas cops saying that it is a rip-off: I believe the war on drugs should be re-examined. I am saddened that it takes stunts like this to bring the discussion to the forefront. Locking people up for small amounts of marijuana is not...

Linky Winky And it's all natural! :D ETA: The disease is Alzheimer's.

pot, coke, pretty much everything. Fox said willing to sign bill Just heard via radio-link. Any data? If so, let me know. This should be interesting.

This just in, Australian beauty school student Schapelle Corby made the mistake of carrying 9 pounds of weed in Bali, and therefore looks forward to 20 years as a guest of the nasty Indonesian prison system. Had she merely blown up a nightclub and murdered 80-odd other Aussies in the name of the...

http://www.forbes.com/maserati/146.html ...full article I wish :usa: would be more like :can: in this aspect. :(