Doonesbury Supports Legalizing Marijuana
Gary Trudeau’s long-running Doonesbury comic strip is often entertaining, frequently topical, and sometimes controversial; with less than a week before our national election, Doonesbury has now begun...
View ArticleProposition 19-Turning Over a New Marijuana Leaf
Our country’s national election is less than two days away, and scores of races are really heating up across the country. Perhaps none of the ballot measures, however, are more contentious than the...
View ArticleVermont: Universal Health Care and State Distributed Cannabis
Lost this week amid the deafening cries for the bloody corpse of Osama bin Laden, is the fact that the state of Vermont has passed a single payer universal health care plan for all of its residents. On...
View ArticleLouisiana Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Marijuana Possession
The drug laws and penalties in our country are badly in need of reform. In a climate where scores of eminent law professors are calling for the legalization of cannabis, it is difficult to fathom that...
View ArticleUtah Attorney General Shurtleff Now Supports Legalizing Medical Marijuana
The state of Utah's Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, has just announced that he now wholly supports the legalization of medical marijuana. He has recently endured many months of intensive chemotherapy...
View ArticleLegal Marijuana and Nuclear Free World = Economic Sustainability?
Britain's Guardian newspaper just published two very astute articles on different topics which both relate to our collective economic future. The first post, "Germany is Right to Opt Out of Nuclear",...
View ArticleRon Paul Terrifies Right Wing Republican Establishment
Republican Ron Paul is the quintessential definition of an iconoclast. Although I frequently disagree with many of his extreme anti-government and racist views, I always admire his courageous lone...
View ArticlePresident Jimmy Carter Wanted Drugs Legalized Back in 1977
Last year the New York Times published a compelling editorial by former President Jimmy Carter demanding that we call off the global drug war. Carter highlighted a report from the Global Commission on...
View ArticleDr. Bronner’s Soap CEO Harvests Hemp in Front of White House
I have always adored Dr, Bronner's fantastic soap, but now I love it even more. The president of the thriving family owned company, David Bronner, locked himself in a metal cage in front of the White...
View ArticleSenators Try Once Again to Legalize Industrial Hemp & Support US Farmers
For the second time this year Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced legislation which would finally legalize industrial hemp; the proposed bill would exclude the crop from the definition of...
View ArticleHow Does Ron Paul Resolve Love of Personal Liberty & Banning Abortion?
Ron Paul is one of the rare elected officials who has the integrity to highlight the crippling economic costs of our massive military industrial complex, as well as the need to decriminalize drugs and...
View ArticleSix Year British Study Proves Drug Use Should be Decriminalized
An extensive six-year study by the independent British advisory organization, the UK Drug Policy Commission, has clearly shown that possession of small amounts of controlled drugs should be...
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