In what seems like a scene straight out of a Monty Python movie, Mexican soldiers seized a giant catapult believed to have been used to fling drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Acting on a tip from the U.S. Border Patrol, the Mexican military confiscated 45 pounds of marijuana, an SUV […]
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Obama’s Questions From Youtube Deal Mostly With Legalizing Pot
By David Jackson, USA TODAY The YouTube generation is speaking, and many of them want to legalize marijuana. Changing the nation’s drug laws is dominating the questions submitted by YouTube users in advance of President Obama’s 2:30 p.m. question-and-answer on the video website. UPI is reporting that “the top 10 […]
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Border Patrol Agent Fired For Views On Drug Legalization Files Lawsuit
By Lucia Graves In September of 2009, border patrol agent Bryan Gonzalez was fired for expressing his views on drug legalization to a fellow agent. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has joined Gonzalez in filing a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive […]
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Global Commission on Drug Policies
Ex world leaders, Branson launch drugs campaign GENEVA — Former world leaders and other personalities including Virgin chief Richard Branson on Monday launched a global drive to tackle drug abuse, amid signs that a crackdown on drugs crime is failing. “There is a growing perception that the ‘war on drugs’ […]
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U.S. Rejects Indigenous Rights in Favor of Failed War on Drugs
Strong-arms Other Countries to Follow Suit By Daniel Ernesto Robelo, Alternet Why is the United States formally objecting to Bolivia’s request to the UN to allow its ancestral practice of coca leaf chewing? Last week the United States formally objected to Bolivia’s request to the United Nations to allow the […]
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DEA Postition on Marijuana
The campaign to legitimize what is called “medical” marijuana is based on two propositions: first, that science views marijuana as medicine; and second, that the DEA targets sick and dying people using the drug. Neither proposition is true. Specifically, smoked marijuana has not withstood the rigors of science–it is not […]
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Mexico’s Ex-President Vicente Fox: Legalize Drugs
As Mexico drowns in drug related bloodshed — suffering almost 12,000 murders in 2010 — it is perhaps unsurprising that government critics turn up their screaming that the war on drugs isn’t working. But it was a bit of a bombshell when former president Vicente Fox added his voice to […]
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Drugged: High on Marijuana
Drugged: High on Marijuana uses visual effects and CGI to take the viewer on a trip through the human body. Using testimony from those who enjoy using the drugs, and those who have been addicted, the episode offers an insight into the realities of these drugs. Some of Britain and […]