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.NORMLtv is pleased to announce that the second installment of ‘NORML@40’ is now available for your viewing pleasure. This retrospective video collection documents the trials, tribulations, and accomplishments of America’s marijuana consumer lobby from those who kept the movement going for the past four decades. In this episode, founder and legal counsel Keith Stroup recounts...
Well-known marijuana legalization advocate upbeat despite terminal lung cancer diagnosis
This is very unwelcome news about Ben Masel. My thoughts are with him.
I had a great time the one time we got together — for coffee and Beignets at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans.
Ben is a tireless advocate and has been...
The words “Drugs” and “Terrorism” have developed a power unto themselves. You can use them to justify any government action or expenditure and suddenly things like budget, logic, evidence or accountability are forgotten.
It’s no surprise that new UNODC director and hard-liner Yuri Fedotov understands this.
Growing links between crime and terrorism the focus of...
Marijuana law reform legislation is pending in over twenty states, and liberalization measures have been pre-filed in many more. Below is this week’s edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up  activists’ one-stop guide to the latest statewide votes and happenings relevant to marijuana law reform. For a listing of all of the pending marijuana...
Now I’m a full-blown opponent of the death penalty. I think it’s immoral, impractical, unfairly administered, and has way too much potential for error. I also reject the notion that a free individual can assign that duty to someone else (nominally called “the government”) and escape personal responsibility. I’m thrilled that...
The original headline of this New York Times article was:
US Drones Fly Deep in Mexico to Fight Drugs
I immediately had an image of a dogfight between a flying Cheech-and-Chong-sized joint and an unmanned drone.
Apparently, someone was awake and mildly aware at the Times, and they changed the headline.
The content is disturbing enough without the...
Scouring the internet for drug-war-related writing that missed the boat…
In our continuing series of pieces by students we have the rather bizarre waste of space in the Nexus titled Drug Slogan Stinks
“Nice people take drugs.â€Â
These are the words that catch my eye on a recent AIDS Vancouver Island poster. I stop to take another...
No government in the world can compete with the black market in financial compensation for police officers. – Guitherisms
City Hall Plotters Accused in Gun-Smuggling Scheme
Even in a border town where smugglers have moved contraband to and from Mexico for generations, no one here expected the mayor, the police chief and a town councilman to...
VIA MPP
The Republic
Federal agents with guns drawn raided up to a dozen medical marijuana operations across Montana on Monday, the same day that a bill to repeal the state’s medical marijuana law stalled in a Senate committee.
Coincidence or political?
Montana NORML is live blogging updates on the raids.
