Decriminalizing marijuana would save public resources

At a time when state and local governments are laying off police, firefighters and teachers, this country continues to spend enormous public resources criminalizing Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis. The end result of this ongoing culture war is not necessarily lower rates of use.

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Top Drug Policy Stories of 2010

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This Year's Top 10 Domestic Drug Policy Stories

The DEA Continues to Misbehave

More than an Eclipse!

I used Gimp to zoom in on this unknown object that was caught on camera last night when taking some pictures of the eclipse.

Not Quite jury Nullification, But Close!

I found this to be an interesting read, though it is lacking many details.

Montana Marijuana Prosecution Runs into Jury Pool "Mutiny"

Mexico's Drug Arrests Lead to Dangerous Overcrowding of Their Prison System: US Private Prisons to the Rescue!

I was reading about the recent jail break at Nuevo Laredo, where 140 prisoners escaped. After reading several articles, what really caught my attention was the explosion of prison populations, they quadrupled in just 4 years. I think we should be taking a serious look at the living and safety conditions of the Mexican prison system. I also must wonder, if the US funding Mexico's Drug War is causing multiple human rights issues in Mexico?

Legal Cannabis Would Cause Alcohol,Tobacco and Prison Profits to Plummet!

I read this in a comment section and found it to be "Words of Wisdom"  so I added it to my blog, and put up a few appropriate pictures.

Legalizer wrote:

Give people the legal option and the alcohol use will drop.

In fact did you know that Tobacco companies and the Alcohol industry are the primary donors to "The Partnership for a Drug Free America".

The Price of Cannabis Prohibition I$$$ to High

 Would you pay $40,000 for 9 grams of bud and a bong?
The New Zealand Government recently did and they did it with their taxpayers monies!

California policeman rants about prop 215 and insults the voters

Yesterday, one of my Facebook friends posted a link, to a California Motorcycle officers blog. The more times I read his blog, the madder I have become, not only is he rude and arrogant, he insults the majority of California's voters. Here is a small quote from the MotorCop blog, please be sure to read the rest. 

Let's talk about Prop. 215. What's that? It's California's (I swear I'm not making this up) Compassionate User act of 1996. Could they have come up with a more touchy-feely name? Oh, that's right, I live in California. We're not called the Left Coast for nothing

If Pot Were Legal, No One Would Grow it in the Woods

The tittle is from the speakeasy Blog, that being said I wrote an article similar to this earlier this year, Legalize Marijuana to Make Our Forests Safe





If Pot Were Legal, No One Would Grow it in the Woods

by Scott Morgan, December 08, 2010,

Can you even think of anything besides marijuana that is grown secretly in the woods? Of course not, because hiking over mountains through dense underbrush with pounds of fertilizer on your back is so stupid and crazy that no one would ever do it unless there were millions of dollars at stake. Unfortunately, there actually are people making millions off these operations and the U.S. Congress is so fed up with the situation that they've issued a resolution demanding that something be done about it.
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It is easy to see that prohibition is more dangerous to the public than cannabis or cannabis users. Now to make our forests safe we are sending more trigger happy drug warriors into those forests with much more fire power than has ever been reported at any of the cartels grow sites. These drug warriors are protected by the Governments laws and those drug warriors will not be punished no matter who they shoot, now that makes me afraid to be in the woods that I love!

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When the whole truth is not allowed in court

When I think of court in the United States I picture the bailiff with the Bible in hand asking "do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God". Now I would think that it would be illegal to give a testimony that was out of context or one that omitted a part of the truth.