Category: Needless Victims

(417 posts)

Needless victims of our failed drug war

August 7, 2013
08/07/2013
Broken Laws Shatter Happy Home: The Alexandria Hill Story

Broken Laws Shatter Happy Home: The Alexandria Hill Story

This story is absolutely heartbreaking but I think it is story that needs to be told. No commentary is necessary to highlight the (forgive my neologism) “f#@ked-upness”...
August 5, 2013
08/05/2013
What is One Person’s Life Worth? The Story of Michael Brooks

What is One Person’s Life Worth? The Story of Michael Brooks

Some would say by the weight of his sins. I say a person’s worth is based on his compassion. Michael Brooks, Re-Location Fund for Survival: When you...
August 1, 2013
08/01/2013
Judge Threatens to Arrest Observers for Advocacy in Hearing

Judge Threatens to Arrest Observers for Advocacy in Hearing

In a weird and wholly-inappropriate display of rage today in the downtown courthouse, Judge Peter Gallagher ranted at defendant Victor Marion for choosing to have medical cannabis...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
DEA to Pay $4.1 Million to Man Forgotten in Cell

DEA to Pay $4.1 Million to Man Forgotten in Cell

The DEA has agreed to pay $4.1 million to San Diego college student Daniel Chong after rounding him up in a drug sweep last year and then...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
Obama Administration Spending $180,000 Per Day to Undermine State Marijuana Laws

Obama Administration Spending $180,000 Per Day to Undermine State Marijuana Laws

On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access Executive Director Steph Sherer discusses her association’s report “What’s the Cost?”, which details the expenses of the federal government’s interference...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Head Shop CCTV Catches Police Informant Planting Crack

Head Shop CCTV Catches Police Informant Planting Crack

An informant sent by police as an undercover investigator was caught red-handed planting crack in the business he was sent to investigate. The ‘investigator’ planted crack on...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
Time – The Zimmerman Mind-Set

Time – The Zimmerman Mind-Set

“Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mind-set that views black boys and men in particular as a problem to be dealt with, managed and...
July 29, 2013
07/29/2013
DEA Medical Cannabis Offensive May Have Cost $13.3 Million

DEA Medical Cannabis Offensive May Have Cost $13.3 Million

By now most medical cannabis activists are aware that several medical marijuana dispensaries in Washington state were raided Wednesday. While the federal government continues to raid medical cannabis...
July 26, 2013
07/26/2013
Deanna Jean, Minnesota Mom, Fights for Medical Marijuana

Deanna Jean, Minnesota Mom, Fights for Medical Marijuana

Weedists: Meet Deanna Jean “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Deanna Jean, or DJ as she is...
By: Anna Diaz
July 24, 2013
07/24/2013
Prosecutor Claims All Medical Cannabis Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Prosecutor Claims All Medical Cannabis Patients Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Last week, in San Diego Superior Court, Attorneys Lance Rogers and Logan Fairfax argued their clients, – medical cannabis patients and seriously ill Dennis and Deborah Littles’...
July 24, 2013
07/24/2013
Needless Suffering of Medical Marijuana Patient Embodies Federal-State Conflict

Needless Suffering of Medical Marijuana Patient Embodies Federal-State Conflict

When I was in the graduate school portion of the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Washington in the Department of Geography, I had an...
July 23, 2013
07/23/2013
San Diego Superior Court Judge Denies Collective’s Defense

San Diego Superior Court Judge Denies Collective’s Defense

013 In a grueling week-long trial, a superior court Judge prohibited defense counsel from bringing evidence to support that cannabis patients may lawfully, collectively cultivate medical cannabis...
July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
NYT: As a Religion, Marijuana-Infused Faith Pushes Limits

NYT: As a Religion, Marijuana-Infused Faith Pushes Limits

In an article in New York Times, Mark Oppenheimer reports the imprisonment of Roger Christie, and describes Hawaii’s THC Ministry founded by Mr. Christie. He points out...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
July 12, 2013
07/12/2013
Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

Obama Administration Brought 80 Percent More Medical Marijuana Cases Than Bush

As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
July 11, 2013
07/11/2013
US Approves Marc Emery’s Transfer Home to Canada

US Approves Marc Emery’s Transfer Home to Canada

The US government has approved a prisoner transfer application for Marc Emery, the Canadian marijuana activist serving a five year sentence in the US for selling marijuana...
July 9, 2013
07/09/2013
Let’s Get Jerry Duval Out of Prison!

Let’s Get Jerry Duval Out of Prison!

Last month, on June 11th, Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval surrendered to federal authorities to serve a whopping 10-year prison sentence, even though he was never in violation...
June 26, 2013
06/26/2013
Immigration Bill Affects Real and Imagined Drug Offenders

Immigration Bill Affects Real and Imagined Drug Offenders

An amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) would affect real and imagined drug offenders. SA 1570, amendment to S. 744 (and the same...
June 25, 2013
06/25/2013
Fund Raiser for the Southern Oregon Four

Fund Raiser for the Southern Oregon Four

The most recent raids on medical cannabis safe access points in Southern Oregon on May 23, 2013 made the news across the country. I could go into...
By: Anna Diaz
June 25, 2013
06/25/2013
Drug Sting Goes Bad, One Dead at Charlotte School

Drug Sting Goes Bad, One Dead at Charlotte School

An undercover drug sting in the parking lot of a Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school ended up with one person killed and one person wounded, and a...