Pacifist Cannabis minister Reverend Roger Christie has been held without bail at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center since July 8, 2010. He's been denied bail 7 times. His trial on federal drug trafficking charges has been set back to July 23, 2013.
Hawaii News Daily deplores Christie's incarceration without bail as a miscarriage of justice. You can learn about the case of Roger Christie and the Green 14 here.
Via Drug Policy Alliance:
Washington, D.C. – At a briefing on Capitol Hill Thursday, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) will enlist actor Martin Sheen and others to respond to two new critical reports: the Drug Policy Alliance’s Drug Courts are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use (www.drugpolicy.org/drugcourts)...
You may recall last Wednesday when we pointed out this incredible paragraph on the website of the National Cancer Institute at cancer.gov, on their general information about medical cannabis, touting its antitumoral effects: The potential benefits of medicinal Cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology, the health...
You may have noticed that there’s a new ad up on the site (at right), for the excellent DVD: 10 Rules for Dealing With Police from Flex Your Rights.
It’s both fun and extremely useful, and it should be shared with all your friends.
If you don’t have a copy yet, here’s a great...
That’s the subtitle of this excellent article in Psychology Today: Tylenol and the War on Drugs
The article starts off about the recent realization by the FDA that pharmaceutical policy was setting people up to die of liver disease if they overused Vicodin, because it is intentionally laced with acetaminophen.
It goes on to...
Join Together has been a useful online publication for news and information of interest, particularly for those in the prevention and treatment arenas.
Join Together’s point of view is pretty far from that of Drug WarRant, yet I’ve often found their drug policy news coverage useful, and have often found robust discussions in their...
Over the weekend, the Mexican attorney general stated: “The controlled trafficking of weapons is not authorized under the Mexican national legislation. An operation that would contemplate this would not have been acceptable to the Mexican government, and it will never be under any circumstance.” The Mexican Attorney General also stated that it’s conducting its...
Regular readers of this site know my views on Caballes v. Illinois, the pathetically moronic decision authored by Justice Stevens in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Now it doesn’t take much evidence for police to justify a search of a car. But it does take more than a hunch.
Caballes, however, says that even with...
Cannabis inhalation and the administration of cannabinoids are both associated with “significant analgesic effects†in the treatment of chronic non-cancer pain,...
On Tuesday’s edition of The Dr. Oz Show NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre appears along with Montel Williams and Dr. Donald Abrams, as well as an audience loaded with NORML activists from around the Tri-State area. The show, “Medical Marijuana: Is it Time to Make it Legal?” also brings in former ONDCP staffer Andrea...
American Thinker: End the War on Drugs Now – a conservative viewpoint
By any objective measure, the War On Drugs is a disastrous failure. It’s time to end this madness now.
What are the results of the War on Drugs?
A million innocent Americans are sitting in prisons right now solely because...
