Trial and Error; Police State, Bad Cops, Guns; Private Prisons, Kids, Jail Tales, Solitary; Recording, Body Cams, Innocence; Deaths, Sins of Youth, Animal Cruelty, Law and Disorder

Trial and Error

• Lawyers ripped him off, now a house is his payback
• Court: Disgraced Ex-Journalist Stephen Glass Can't Practice Law
• The man who sues too much: After 50 cases in 10 years, Mohammed Tabibar Rahman has been banned from taking anyone else to court
• Supreme Court secretly recorded on camera

Police State

• Justices Rule on Home Searches and Defendants' Frozen Assets—"The Supreme Court ruled that the police may search homes over the objections of one of the residents and that defendants are not entitled to hearings to gain access to frozen assets to pay lawyers." NYT
• Man blows 0.00 on breathalyzer, gets arrested for DWI—"The Austin Police Department stands by the arrest, saying they believed Davis showed signs of impairment, that while standing on one leg, he 'swayed,' and 'needed his arms for balance.'"
• Army Gives Out $500,000 Armored Trucks for Free—"U.S. law enforcement agencies have received the lion’s share of this high-powered military surplus."

Bad Cops

• California officers arrested in car impound scheme
• 6 S.F. officers indicted over residential hotel searches
• Mayor Freezes SPD Misconduct Settlements, City Can't Find Paperwork to Back Up Claims of Mayor and Chief
• DA Invalidates More Convictions Tied To Corrupt Philly Cop
• NJ Police Complaint System Broken—"A New Jersey Public Radio investigation has found that the citizen complaint process at local police departments is riddled with problems, including retaliation and a lack of oversight from the state. "
• Video: Officer "Failed To Render Aid" For Dying Crash Victims
• Video: Jerk CHP Officer Handcuffs Firefighter Helping Car Crash Victims

Guns

• ATF agents lost track of dozens of their own guns, reports show
• SC officer shoots man reaching for cane—'A police officer in South Carolina shot a 70-year-old motorist who was reaching for a cane during a traffic stop because he thought the man was grabbing a rifle from the bed of his pickup truck, investigators said. The man was expected to survive." WaPo
• Saginaw officers who shot and killed Milton Hall won't face federal charges—"Six officers shot at Hall 47 times; 11 bullets struck him. Several civilians witnessed the incident and recorded portions of it on their cellular phones."

Private Prisons

• The Private Prison Racket—"Companies that manage prisons on our behalf have abysmal records. So why do we keep giving them business?"
• Despite Receiving Millions in Public Money, Private Prisons are Impenetrable "Bastions of Secrecy"—"A new study shows that federal law still allows private prisons to shroud much of their activity in mystery, despite receiving public money."
• The Prison-Industrial Complex: Politicians need to stand up to the prosecutocracy — and embrace reform
• Private prison firm to fight staffing audit result
• Higher Profits Explain Why There Are More People Of Color In Private Prisons—Study done across nine states.
• Nebraska Lawmaker Wants Her State To Stop Paying Private Prisons For Empty Cells

Kids

• Sentenced young: The story of life without parole for juvenile offenders
• Corrupt 'Kids for Cash' judge ruined more than 2,000 lives
• Name mix-up in sexual battery case sends wrong Clay County teen to jail for 35 days

Jail Tales

• Lawsuit: 'Sadistic Violence' at Cook County Jail—"Guards at one of the nation's largest jails systematically engage in "sadistic violence and brutality" against inmates, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday." NYT
• Colorado's Federal Supermax Prison Is Force-Feeding Inmates on Hunger Strike
• Prison Labor: Hundreds Of American Companies Pay Employees As Little As 23 Cents An Hour
• US prison to charge inmates for food and medical care
• Virginia makes $3 million+ a year on inmate phone calls
• With no 'defense,' HP Israel faces a PR nightmare—"The Knesset is demanding answers over an IT project gone awry, but there's no one to defend the firm, which employs 6,000 here."

Solitary

• CO Prison Chief Ready For Reform After A Night In Solitary Confinement
• Federal report condemns use of solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners in Pa.
• Solitary Confinement and Its Costs—"Our correctional institutions have made ever-increasing use of solitary confinement, a policy that is damaging and potentially catastrophic."
• The Science of Solitary Confinement—"Research tells us that isolation is an ineffective rehabilitation strategy and leaves lasting psychological damage."

Recording

• Video Shows Officer Confronting Man Filming Arrests In Towson—"You have no rights," the officer said. The police chief disagrees.
• King Co. Sheriff fires deputy who threatened to arrest journalist
• Bloomfield mayor alleges police 'cover up,' vows to 'purge' police department of 'bad officers—Here's the raw video of arrest released after man dies in Moore police custody.
• Cops sexually assault mother, break 10-year-old son's leg, claims lawsuit—"A Brooklyn cop kicked a 10-year-old boy in the shin, breaking his leg, as the child was recording him with his cell phone, according to court papers."
• Unprovoked: Courtroom Video Shows Denver Sheriff's Deputy Attacking Shackled Inmate—"If a deputy sheriff thinks he can get away with viciously attacking a middle-aged Black man and calling him 'a boy' appearing in court, you can only imagine what happens to men and women in custody in the confines of the Denver city and county jails."
• Dashcam video clears NJ man
• Cops hit my car, then arrested me: suit
• Cellphone video in fatal Warren Theatre incident made public
• Oklahoma father dies in police encounter after mother slaps daughter
• Recording Traffic Stop Lands Davie Woman In Jail—"As O’Brien approached her vehicle, Berning hit the record button on her phone. She recorded about 15 seconds of the conversation before telling O’Brien that he was being recorded. That’s when the deputy told her she had just committed a felony and demanded that she hand over her phone."

Body Cams

• Lubbock police deploying 70 new body cameras
• Toronto police to test out lapel cameras—"Pilot project stems from recommendation in a 2013 report on police and community engagement."
• Body cameras on police protect everybody

Innocence

• Man Framed by New York Detective to Get $6.4 Million Without Filing Suit—"A man who was framed by a rogue detective and served 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit will receive $6.4 million from the City of New York in a settlement that came before a civil rights lawsuit was even filed, lawyers involved in the case said on Thursday." NYT
• Evidence of Concealed Jailhouse Deal Raises Questions About a Texas Execution—"The battle to clear the name of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of murdering his three children by arson, has symbolic value because it may offer evidence that an innocent man was executed 10 years ago." NYT
• Record number of people exonerated of crimes in US in 2013—"Eighty-seven people cleared of conviction, including in many cases which investigation revealed no crime ever committed."
• In A Record Year For Exonerations, This Bar Owner Has One Of The Most Outrageous Stories Of All
• Man Speaks About Achieving Exoneration After 7 Years in Prison—"Minnesota is one of 21 states that does not..." have "compensation statutes for the wrongfully imprisoned."
• 21 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit

Deaths

• North Carolina detective indicted for killing mentally ill teenager
• Movie theater shooter: 'You don't get do-overs'
• Attorney: Teen was shot for having Wii controller in hand
• Florida teen in loud music murder trial was unarmed, witnesses say—Parents want to put stand-your-ground on trial.
• Arkansas girl, 15, pulls prank, shot to death by homeowner—"Parents would like to know why the curfew isn't enforced." I would like to know why parents aren't parenting. Update: Willie Noble said he only shot to scare.

Sins of Youth

• 27 years for teen in 'knockout game' slaying of father of 12
• Teen confessed to killing Davis couple—"Daniel William Marsh confessed to the brutal murders of an elderly Davis couple, saying he'd had the urge to kill since he was about 10 years old...."
• Charges upgraded to capital murder against 3 suspects in violent Chickasaw home invasion

Animal Cruelty

• Contact 13 uncovers new case of police killing pets
• Bull dog that visits dying patients shot in Pa. yard
• Kitten suffered 'horrendous' death after woman, 23, cooked it in microwave
• Teens arrested after Facebook dog abuse video goes viral

Law and Disorder

• Friend confesses to being Zodiac Killer
• Woman attempts to shoplift 330 Pizza Roll
• Chico mayor cited for driving over 100 MPH—"Gruendl did not tell the officer who pulled him over that he was the mayor and said he plans to accept responsibility for his actions."

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Miranda

• David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate'
• David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face—"As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge – and the Guardian offices – have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing."
• Is Glenn Greenwald's journalism now viewed as a 'terrorist' occupation?—"David Miranda's detention shows that being the partner of the man who interviewed the NSA whistleblower is enough to see you treated like a terrorist."
• White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention—Claims they didn't sanction his detainment. WSJ
• Snowden journalist to publish UK secrets after Britain detains partner

Surveillance and Privacy

• Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material—Different unnamed officals were quoted as saying, "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back."; "We can call off the black helicopters"; and "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."
• Time for Answers from the NSA—"After a report of 2,776 privacy violations, even NSA defenders are getting fed up."
• N.S.A. Calls Violations of Privacy 'Minuscule' NYT
• Feds target instructors teaching how to beat polygraph tests
• Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches—Thanks Obama!
• NZ PM John Key appeared to lose patience with a journalist at a media conference today—Walked on being asked about the spying bill.
  
• UK: Police 'spied on activists for blacklisting agency'—"Whistleblower says he believes he personally collected intelligence that later appeared in files of agency."

War on Drugs

• Poll: 82% Of Americans Believe U.S. Is Losing 'War On Drugs'
• Grand Jury Decides Not to Charge Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Youth in Bronx—Over a bag of marijuana? NYT
• American Drug War: U.S. Prosecution Tactics Frees Colombian Nationals
• In 2011, 1 in 25 Americans was arrested—"The War on Drugs still accounts for startling arrest rates, borne out in FBI stats." Salon
• Father of foster child who died speaks to KVUE—Daughter taken away from pot-smoking parents died in foster care.
• Student left in DEA cell to get $4 million from US—Doesn't look like anyone's getting fired or publicly reprimanded over this.
• Mexican Cartels Are Recruiting US Soldiers As Hitmen, And The Pay Is Good
• More Fast and Furious guns surface at crimes in Mexico

Arlington

• Owner irked after raid on Arlington's 'Garden of Eden'—"They came here under the guise that we were doing a drug trafficking, marijuana-growing operation. They destroyed everything." They being a SWAT Team.
• Arlington Farm Owners Demand Apology From Police After Drug Raid Comes Up Empty
• Texas Police Hit Organic Farm With Massive SWAT Raid

Crackdown

• Feds Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Unprecedented Rate
• Feds Raid Pot Dispensaries in Washington, Where the Drug is Legal
• California Democratic Party Marijuana Resolution Asks Obama To End Federal Crackdown

Stop-And-Frisk

• New York 'stop and frisk' policy ruled discriminatory—"New York City's police department violated the civil rights of thousands [NYT] through its stop and frisk policy, a US judge has ruled. Judge Shira Scheindlin said police chiefs 'turned a blind eye' to evidence that officers had discriminated by race when making the stops." Unconstitutional.
• Cop Cams Ordered To Help Fix NYC Stop-And-Frisk
• Mayor Bloomberg Loves Cameras Watching Everyone... Except His Cops

Mandatory Sentencing

• Holder To Announce Move Against Mandatory Minimum Sentencing—"Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh prison sentences for certain drug-related crimes, divert people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expand a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders."
• Mandatory Drug Sentences Author: 'We May Have Overreacted'—"Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw, Jr., who helped draft the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, says it's time to reconsider."
• Welcome drug prosecution reform still needs Congress's help

Prisons

• Fareed Zakaria: "If our Politicians can take on the prison lobbies, there is hope for America."
• Supreme Court: California must continue prisoner release
• FCC slashes what prisoners pay for phone calls—" A decade after families of prison inmates asked for action, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to limit how much companies can charge for phone calls made from behind bars."
• Judge to open documents in Idaho prison lawsuit—"Inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center... brought the lawsuit in 2010, contending the [Corrections Corporation of America]-run prison was so violent that prisoners called it 'Gladiator School.'"
• CCA warden says he didn't know about understaffing

420

• Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Why I changed my mind on weed—"I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis."
• Charlotte's Web
• NJ governor: Ease access to kids' medical pot
• Pro-marijuana ads pulled from NASCAR's Brickyard 400
• Federal Drug Agency Denies Marijuana Is Less Toxic Than Alcohol—Lying liars.

Legalization

• As haze clears, are American opinions on marijuana reaching tipping point?
• Florida: Backer says passion, not politics, motivates medical-marijuana drive
• Quinn to Sign Medical Marijuana Bill—"Illinois will become 20th state in the union to allow for medical marijuana use; New law takes effect Jan. 1."
• New York City Comptroller John Liu calls for legalized pot in NYC—The money earned can be used to fund education.
• Canada: Trudeau says he supports legalizing marijuana
• Legal Weed is Hurting San Francisco's Hippies
• A push in Mexico City to legalize marijuana use
• Uruguay's lower house votes to legalize marijuana—The UN's International Narcotics Control Board is "concerned," but this may be the "tipping point" on the war on drugs.
• Big Marijuana lobby fights legalization efforts
• Pope Francis attacks drug legalisation in Latin America—Just when I was starting to like the guy.

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War on Drugs

• So who's winning the war on drugs?--"President Nixon's declared war on drugs is more than thirty years old. It's time to ask who's winning."
• Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs is Just Plain Crazy
• The Throwaways--Police enlist young offenders as confidential informants. But the work is high-risk, largely unregulated, and sometimes fatal."
• Florida Deputy Uses Spidey-Sense to Establish Probable Cause--"Last May, Sarasota, Florida Sheriff's Deputy Dominic Fornal followed Joseph McNeal's Jaguar out of a parking lot, then pulled McNeal over. The reason? Dep. Fornal claimed he could smell marijuana coming from the car. Even though the car was traveling at 35 mph. And the windows were up. Oh, and there was no marijuana in the car. Fornal did arrest McNeal and charge him with a DUI, though, even though McNeal's BAC was about half the legal limit."
• Fast And Furious Report: No Evidence DOJ Leadership Knew Of Gunwalking Tactics

Big Pharma

• Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing--"Fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers."
• How Big Pharma Hooked America on Legal Heroin
• As Obamacare dawns, Big Pharma rides into the sunset

Armstrong

• USADA says it will ban Lance Armstrong, strip 7 Tour titles--Does the USADA even have any authority over the International Cycling Federation or the Amaury Sport Organisation that runs the Tour?
• Lance Armstrong drops fight against doping charges
• Lance Armstrong joins Md. cancer benefit triathlon

420

• Former DEA Heads Push Holder to Oppose State Marijuana Initiatives
• Romney plans to smoke medical marijuana laws
• Yale study: Alcohol's gateway effect much larger than marijuana's
• Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims--"If cannabis impairs the IQ of those who smoke as teenagers, then legalising it is the best way to mitigate that harm."
• Bid to overturn L.A. pot shop ban qualifies for ballot

Cases

• New Hampshire Jury Nullifies its First Felony Marijuana Case
• Pot-smoking driver in Saskatoon deemed not impaired
• Riverside: Judge says city can't ban medical marijuana clinic
• Montana Supreme Court: No constitutional right to medical marijuana
• Wal-Mart worker fired over medical marijuana loses case

Mexico

• Devastated Mexican father asks: Why did my son have to die for the US's failed "war on drugs"?
• Mexicans see a losing battle in the war on crooked police
• US drug addiction impedes Mexican growth – President Calderon

Cartels

• Marines vs. Zetas: U.S. Hunts Drug Cartels in Guatemala
• "Cocaine godmother" Griselda Blanco gunned down in Colombia, media reports say
• Top Colombian drug lord captured in Venezuela
• Fritanga Arrest Puts Dangerous Drug Cartel Leader in Police Custody
• Mexico navy says it captured Gulf cartel leader--"Mario Cardenas Guillen, alias El Gordo, is accused of being one of the two top leaders of the Gulf cartel of Mexico."

International

• Australia: Report urges rethink on illegal drugs--"A report has recommended Australia consider decriminalising cannabis and ecstasy in a bid to tackle the country's drug problem."
• UK: Drugs policies are not working, believe 75% of MPs
• Canada: Border guards told to forget about illegal drug exports
• Uruguay takes 'war on drugs' in new direction: The state as dealer
• Thailand: Are our drug policies really working?
• Why Washington's War on Drugs in Afghanistan Isn't Working
• What the world thought: Should drugs like cocaine and heroin be legalised?

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420

• Let's Be Blunt: It's Time to End the Drug War
• Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson: Legalize marijuana to reduce violence
• Pro-pot attorney general candidate wins Oregon primary--Congratulations to Ellen Rosenbaum.
• Colorado's Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol ad: "Dear Mom"
• The Anti-Science Streak in Federal Marijuana Policy--"The classification of cannabis as a schedule one narcotic is among the least defensible aspects of prohibition."
• The Drug Czar's False Statement About Marijuana and Hemp Should Be a Bigger Scandal
• Dutch government decrees that all cannabis cafes are off-limits to tourists--Protestors just say no.
  

Obama

• Why Nancy Pelosi is Right to Slam Obama's War on Pot
• Medical marijuana meets hostility from Obama administration
• Dr. Jill Stein: Obama Irrational On Marijuana, Medical or Otherwise
• Obama Lies About Federal Marijuana Law to Rolling Stone
• Jimmy Kimmel Addresses Marijuana Legalization At White House Correspondents' Dinner 2012--"Marijuana is something that real people care about," Kimmel said, addressing Obama directly.

Medical Marijuana

• Poll: 74 Percent of Americans, Including 67 Percent of Republicans, Want Obama to End Medical Marijuana Crackdown
• Poll: New Yorkers high on medical pot, split on fracking and fighting
• Connecticut Senate passes medical marijuana bill after lengthy debate
• A Sitting NY Supreme Court Judge With Cancer Makes A Plea For Medical Marijuana
• Marijuana relieves muscles tightness, pain of multiple sclerosis: Study--This is what Big Pharma wants to suppress.

War on Drugs

• Student in DEA custody forgotten without food or water for days
• US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent--The DEA denies they did any shooting.
• Soap maker David Bronner: Hemp ban highlights absurdity of drug war
• Up In Smoke
• Moms Say, "No More Drug War!"--"Mothers throughout history have come forward for the sake of their children. We're coming forth today saying that the drug war has been more damaging to our families than the drugs themselves."
• Cannes 2012: Shia LaBeouf's 'Lawless,' parable for the drug war?
• FBI: Motorcycle Gang Trademarked Logo to Keep Narcs at Bay

Cui Bono: Who Benefits?

• Are All U.S. Politicians Drug War Profiteers?--Follow the money.
• 4 Industries Getting Rich Off the Drug War
• The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal

Mexico

• Mexico's Drug War: 50,000 Dead in 6 Years
• Thirty-seven dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway--Seems to gone up to 49.
• Numb to Carnage, Mexicans Find Diversions, and Life Goes On NYT
• Corruption flows freely along U.S.-Mexico border--"In one New Mexico town alone, the mayor, police chief and a city trustee were guilty of gun smuggling — and it's probably not an isolated case."
• Two Mexican generals detained for alleged drug gang ties
• Fast And Furious Investigation: House Committee Prepares To Cite Eric Holder For Contempt
• ATF: 70 percent of guns found in Mexico come from US

International

• India: Drugs ravage Punjab, nation's breadbasket state--"With drug-related crimes occurring at ten times the nation's average, locals say police and politicians are complicit in Punjab's narcotics trade."
• Drug War at Sea: Rise of the Narco Subs--"Over the past five years, drug cartels have increasingly been shipping cocaine by way of hard-to-detect semi-submersible vessels. And the next generation of narco subs may be even harder to spot."
• Latin America’s drug war evolution--"A policy advisor explains why leaders from Mexico to Argentina are pushing decriminalization and legal regulation." Salon

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420

• Gary Johnson: 'Pot Smokers May Be The Largest Untapped Voting Bloc'
• Marijuana Arrests Driving America's 'Drug War,' Latest FBI Report Shows--2010 was the second biggest year for arrests in history.
• Drug Czar Says 'Young People' Smoke Pot Because They Saw Grandma Do It When She Was Getting Chemotherapy
• IRS hits Oakland pot shop with $2.4M tax bill--"The federal government has found a new weapon in its war on marijuana - the tax man."
• Medical marijuana dispensaries close after ruling--"The day after the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that medical marijuana dispensaries can be considered a public nuisance and could be shut down, two facilities in Ann Arbor have been raided and facilities all over the state have closed, including the Mt. Pleasant dispensary at the center of the turmoil."
• Study: Crime in surrounding area increased after closure of LA medical marijuana dispensaries
• New Jersey Medical Marijuana Patient Sent to Prison
• 'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous'
• American Idiocy: Binge Drinking A-OK, Zero Tolerance on Pot
• Dutch city bans foreign tourists from cannabis coffee shops

War on Drugs

• Experts back Liberal Democrat calls for drugs decriminalisation--"Drugs Policy Commission says proposal to scrap criminal penalties for personal possession would not increase use."
• New Mexico couple says no to DEA drug raid--"You're not coming in this house without a warrant."
• Woman has to pay $1k for forced cavity search--"A woman in the state of New Mexico is asking cops to cover her medical bill after she was ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency of Las Cruces, NM to undergo a costly cavity search — at her own expense."
• The War on Drugs Is Senseless
• SWAT Team Raids: Overkill Fit Only for a Police State --"You need not have the brainpower of an Einstein to see that this reprehensible development has been an outgrowth of the 'war on drugs' and has only received further impetus from the "war on terror.'"
• Rick Perry Wants to Send the Military into Mexico to Fight Drugs
• Colombia Supreme Court decriminalizes drugs for personal use

Fast and Furious

• ATF Fast and Furious: New documents show Attorney General Eric Holder Lied To Congress--Should he be indicted or not?
• A 'Furious' revelation: Feds sold guns to drug gangs
• ATF chief removed over border guns scandal
• Bombshell: DOJ Considering Elimination of ATF
• Mexico still waiting for answers on Fast and Furious gun program

Mexico

• Calderón Hints at Drug Legalization Again
• Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users
• Mexico: 35 bodies dumped on roadway
• Five severed heads found outside school in Acapulco, Mexico
• Mexico Turns to Twitter and Facebook for Information and Survival NYT

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420

• So How Is This Different From Armed Robbery?--"Earlier this month, police in Oakland County, Michigan raided a medical marijuana dispensary in the town of Oak Park. [...] They made no arrests, but they did clean the place out. The confiscated all of the dispensary's cash on hand and—in a particularly thuggish touch—also took all of the cash from the wallets and purses of employees and patients."
• Rep. Polis on debt: tax pot, gambling--"The federal government should legalize and tax marijuana and Internet gambling to help get the country out of the current debt crisis, writes Rep. Jared Polis, a second-term Colorado Democrat...."
• White House admits marijuana has ‘some’ medical value
• For wounded veteran, medical marijuana's been a godsend
• How Marijuana Could Save The Economy
• Why Legalize Now?
• Gary Johnson: Face reality, legalize pot
• Medical Marijuana Will Move Forward Despite New Threats from the Obama Administration
• Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal
• New Zealand Party Guarantees Access To Marijuana If Elected
• "Thanks for Marijuana Prohibition" Says Mexican Marijuana Gangster to U.S. Leaders
• Israel approves guidelin es for medical marijuana
  
  

War on Drugs

• The War on Drugs is a Failure so Give Drug Policy Back to the States
• NAACP Passes Resolution Calling For End To Drug War
• ATF loses track of 1,400 guns in criticized probe--"Federal agents can't account for more than 1,400 guns after a widely criticized operation aimed at tracing the flow of weapons to Mexican drug gangs, sources with knowledge of the investigation tell CNN."
• Obama admin intimidating witnesses in ATF gun probe
• ATF, Dept. of Justice supplied drug cartels with weapons
• The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In
• Federal Agents Allowed Tons Of Cocaine To Be Smuggled Into The U.S. In Exchange For Information

Mexico

• At Least 40 Dead After Mexican Drug Gangs Battle
• Mexican police: Drug gang leader says he ordered 1,500 killings
• Mexico town's entire police force quits after officers gunned down--Drug gangs blamed as 20-strong squad resigns in Ascension after series of targeted attacks on new force

Europe

• Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say
• Liberal Democrats want inquiry into decriminalising drug possession--"Motion based on Portuguese reforms said to have reduced problematic drug use expected to be passed at party conference"
• Decriminalization of Drug Use in Greece