Newshawk: Please Write a LTE www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides Pubdate: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 Source: New York Times (NY) Page: A18 Webpage: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/opinion/03sat3.html Copyright: 2010 The New York Times Company Contact: letters@nytimes.com Cited: Department of Health and Human Services http://www.aids.gov/about-us/?showTab=contact-us SENSIBLE RULES, SOON President Obama did the right thing in December when he […]
US CA: OPED: Taking the Next Step for California
Newshawk: http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm Pubdate: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 Source: New Times (San Luis Obispo, CA) Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/n1IgAd0J Copyright: 2010 New Times Contact: letters@newtimesslo.com Author: Tom Ammiano Note: California Assemblymember Tom Ammiano represents the 13th Assembly District, which includes San Francisco. Cited: Proposition 19 http://www.taxcannabis.org/ Referenced: National Commission on Marijuana and Drug […]
US MI: Medical Marijuana Patient Fired, Now Suing
Pubdate: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 Source: Battle Creek Enquirer (MI) Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/8bAyYf6G Copyright: 2010 Battle Creek Enquirer Contact: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/customerservice/contactus.html Author: Elizabeth Willis, The Enquirer Referenced: Casias v. Wal-Mart http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/casias_complaint_6_24_10.pdf Cited: Wal-Mart https://www.walmartethics.com/ Cited: ACLU of Michigan http://www.aclumich.org/ Referenced: Michigan law http://drugsense.org/url/8mvr7sW8 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Joseph+Casias Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Michigan+medical+marijuana MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENT FIRED, NOW […]
US MO: OPED: Prescriptions Scarier Than ‘Devil Weed’
Pubdate: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 Source: Columbia Daily Tribune (MO) Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/Mf7JhJ3G Copyright: 2010 Columbia Daily Tribune Contact: editor@tribmail.com Author: Eddie Adelstein Note: Eddie Adelstein, associate professor of pathology at the University of Missouri, is Boone County’s deputy medical examiner. PRESCRIPTIONS SCARIER THAN ‘DEVIL WEED’ I remember hearing 62 years […]
US CO: When Capitalism Meets Cannabis
Newshawk: Please Write a LTE www.mapinc.org/resource/#guides Pubdate: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 Source: New York Times (NY) Page: BU1 Webpage: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/27pot.html Copyright: 2010 The New York Times Company Contact: letters@nytimes.com Author: David Segal Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?253 (Cannabis – Medicinal – U.S.) WHEN CAPITALISM MEETS CANNABIS BOULDER, Colo. — ANYONE who thinks it […]
US TX: Column: The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander
Pubdate: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Source: Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (TX) Copyright: 2010 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Contact: http://www.star-telegram.com/submit-a-letter/ Website: http://www.star-telegram.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/162 Author: Leonard Pitts THE NEW JIM CROW BY MICHELLE ALEXANDER, A MUST READ “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key […]
The truth about cannabis prohibition – Governor Gary Johnson
Why would I, as a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, speak out so strongly on behalf of California’s Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010? Because no matter how you look at it, our policy of cannabis prohibition has failed — and I couldn’t just sit on […]
World Drugs Day June 26
This film shows the hypocrisy of politicians who remain silent on the issue of drugs despite their own experiences and, more importantly, despite the fact people are executed to commemorate World Drugs Day.
Chris Selley: Our indefensibly blood-soaked drug laws
Jamaican gangster and drug kingpin Christopher “Dudus” Coke, subject of a violent month-long manhunt in the slums of West Kingston, surrendered to authorities on Wednesday without a shot being fired. He happened to be dressed as a woman at the time, police gleefully announced, providing photo evidence — a darkly […]