This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.07.11)
A former Missouri sheriff heads to federal prison, a former Kansas City cop is headed there, too, and a former South Carolina deputy is looking at drug charges. Let’s get to it:…
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A Comically Dishonest Defense of the Drug War
There’s a fun little debate series over at World News & Report featuring some of the usual suspects squaring off over whether the drug war is the best or worst thing in…
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative Makes Ballot
Voters in Massachusetts will have the chance to decide in November whether to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana. A spokesman for Secretary of State William Galvin said last Tuesday that proponents…
Drug War Snapshot: Ocean City, Maryland
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 07:04pm, (Issue #742) Ocean City, Maryland, is a popular East Coast beach vacation destination, but it’s also the scene of a major push for marijuana arrests,…
Drug War Snapshot: Nueces County, Texas
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 06:00pm, (Issue #742) Nueces County, Texas (pop. 340,000), sits on the Gulf Coast halfway between Houston and the Mexican border, astride drug trafficking corridors headed from…
Drug War Snapshot: Volusia County, Florida
by Phillip Smith, July 08, 2012, 04:51pm, (Issue #742) Volusia County Courthouse (volusia.org) Volusia County, Florida, situated midway up the state’s Atlantic Coast, has just under half a million people, and if…
This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
by Phillip Smith, July 04, 2012, 02:57pm A crooked narc scandal in Florida just keeps on giving, a sticky-fingered Kansas City cop goes to jail, a former Arizona cop is in trouble…
Medical Marijuana Update
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 4, 2012:
Video: Excessive Force Used On Long Beach Marijuana Dispensary Employee During Raid
Check out this LA Weekly article on the bullshit June 19th raid by police on the THC Downtown Collective, aka The Happyending Collective (video below). This is a clear use of excessive…
Five More US Drug War Deaths
The War on Drugs…causing crime scenes daily. At least five people have been killed in the drug war on America’s streets in the past few weeks. They become the 30th through the…
Nevada Drug Dog Troopers Allege Official Misconduct
Drug sniffing dogs can be trained to alert on cue. (US Navy) A group of Nevada Highway Patrol troopers and a retired police sergeant have filed a lawsuit against the Patrol and…
Colombia High Court Okays Drug Decriminalization
In Colombia, you can possess a gram of coke with no fear of arrest (wikimedia.org) Colombia’s Constitutional Court has approved the government’s proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs…
Medical Marijuana Update
Here's the latest medical marijuana news across the nation as of June 27, 2012:
Video: Chris Hayes, Ross Douthat, and Michael Ian Black Discuss Politics of Marijuana
Up host Chris Hayes and his guests, including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and comedian Michael Ian Black, discuss the surprising politics of the debate over legalizing marijuana . It nicely…
Decriminalization Advances in Chicago
Chicago Skyline After hours of querulous questioning , the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee voted 13-1 to send Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s marijuana decriminalization to the full council for approval. The City…
NH Governor Vetoes Medical Marijuana Bill
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) Thursday made good on his threat to veto a medical marijuana bill, Senate Bill 409, approved by the legislature.
How to Score Political Points by Stopping Marijuana Arrests
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel shows how you can please almost every political constituency by not arresting people for marijuana possession. In giving his blessing to the ticketing proposal, the mayor availed himself…