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Newest Blog Entries:
How to Legalize Pot – NYTimes.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 21, 2013Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream – NYTimes.com – Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013Kristen Gwynnne: Why Cops Bust Down Doors of Medical Pot Growers, But Ignore Men Who Keep Naked Girls on Leashes
Gwynnne in Alternet ..Strange, isn’t it, that hunches and vague tips about potential marijuana growing (in a state that recently legalized the drug!) is motivation enough to send a SWAT team busting down a door? Compare that to recent reports that police in Cleveland, Ohio ignored years of tips and calls about strange things going on in the home of the three Cleveland men suspected of holding captive, brutally raping and beating three women for nearly a decade. Before the big break on Monday, neighbors say they knew something was up and claim that they repeatedly called the cops. The police did not appear concerned; they certainly lacked the enthusiasm many law enforcement officers display when going after drug crimes (and non-crimes).. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Enormous Promise of Psychedelics for Sustaining Health, Happiness and Sanity
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, May 4, 2013Conservatives Push Marijuana Reform in Congress | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 17, 2013Poll: Most Americans Not Buying Feds’ Drug War Propaganda
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 8, 2013Pot Smoking Not Linked To Breathing Problems; May Help Lungs
Who knew??? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Cocoa could be the new brain drug – Salon.com
I have some 80% every day, so you can judge-ha!!Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 6, 2013
As Pot Becomes Legal, We’ve Got to Fight Against Corporate Control of Cannabis
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 10, 2013America Is Far from #1
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 9, 2013Legalization Hits the Hill | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 9, 2013FOCUS | Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent Crime
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 23, 2013Legalization’s Biggest Enemies | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 20, 2013NYT: Reassessing Flu Shots as the Season Draws Near
seems like every year its time to be Very Scared ..For vaccine manufacturers, it’s a bonanza: Influenza shots — given every year, unlike many other vaccines — are a multibillion-dollar global business. But how good are they? Last month, in a step tantamount to heresy in the public health world, scientists at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report saying that influenza vaccinations provide only modest protection for healthy young and middle-age adults, and little if any protection for those 65 and older, who are most likely to succumb to the illness or its complications. Moreover, the report’s authors concluded, federal vaccination recommendations, which have expanded in recent years, are based on inadequate evidence and poorly executed studies.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Will Obama’s ‘War on Weed’ Ignore Voters?
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 14, 201310 Ways the Drug War Is Causing Massive Collateral Damage to Our Society
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 10, 2013Ian Welsh: On Killing Sprees
Welsh ..[in the US] More people are mentally ill [and medicated] .. People have to be medicated to function in American society because it requires unpleasant and unnatural behavior, virtually all the time. School and work both require people to act in ways that normal, healthy, unmedicated individuals find hard to sustain. Add to that the fact that social ties have, over the last 60 years, absolutely collapsed, leaving most people with almost no friend or close family, and people need to drug themselves to get through their day. They are sick, scared and lonely. And at the very edges of this, the occasional person cracks, goes ballistic and kills a lot of people.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 5, 2013
2012: The Year of Synthetic Drugs
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 28, 20125 Senior Citizens Serving Life Without Parole for Pot
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 25, 2012Study: Alcohol, not marijuana, is bad for your brain – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 23, 2012Girls Get Stoned, Too: Why We Need More Pot-Smoking Female Stars Like Rihanna and Lady Gaga
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 21, 2012The Next Seven States To Legalize Pot | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 19, 2012Matt Taibbi: You Can Go to Prison for Pot, While Big Banks Get Away With Laundering Drug Cartel Cash
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 15, 2012ABC News: Marijuana Not High Obama Priority
from Barbara Walter interview (w/ video) ..President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a "top priority" of federal law enforcement officials prosecuting the war on drugs. "We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said of pot users in Colorado and Washington during an exclusive interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters. "It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal," he saidBUT! (and there's always a but..), see this from Talking Points Memo: "the federal government doesn’t traditionally have the resources or mandate to go after minor drug offenses anyway, so it’s unclear how significant an olive branch Obama offered. The bigger outstanding concern for legalization proponents is whether growers and distributors of pot who can now operate legally in Colorado and Washington will be targeted by federal law enforcement. There are also concerns that state officials tasked with regulating and taxing sales of the drug could face federal prosecution" .. nonetheless, progress - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, December 14, 2012
A User’s Guide To Smoking Pot With Barack Obama
via Buzzfeed, excerpts from (Wash Post, Pulitzer winner) David Maraniss' book on the Prez ..As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called "TA," short for "total absorption." To place this in the physical and political context of another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the antithesis of Bill Clinton's claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled ..something to keep in mind when the Feds crack down on the DFH's in Colorado and Washington - mab .. read more
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According to [a Choom Gang member], Ray the dealer [could] "score quality weed." .. In the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times." A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments..
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, December 13, 2012
