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John Stossel: The war on drugs is just like Prohibition. And it won't work either

02-08-2018 • foxnews.com

Ross Ulbricht was a quiet nerd -- an Eagle Scout who never cursed.

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Stop Calling It an Opioid Crisis

02-03-2018 • arclein

The National Center for Health Statistics reported last month that a record 63,600 deaths occurred in 2016 due to overdoses. Digging deeper into that number shows over 20,000 of those deaths were due to the powerful drug fentanyl, more than 15,000 we

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When Cops Don't Like You... (Welcome home, Adam!)

01-26-2018 • YouTube.Com - Adam Kokesh

Adam gets out of jail only to find his home/RV ransacked!

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Sessions Wages War on Natural Weed, As He Grants Maker of Fentanyl a Monopoly on Synthetic THC

01-10-2018 • chrisinmaryville.net by Matt Agorist

Jeff Sessions hypocritically granted a monopoly on the sale of THC to a company whose drug fentanyl kills tens of thousands a year, while promising to arrest people for a plant.

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Movies and Marijuana

01-10-2018 • https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/01/laurence-m-van

Seventy per cent of the population of Saudi Arabia is under thirty years old. This means that the majority of Saudi young people have never seen a movie at a theater. You see, there are no movie theaters in Saudi Arabia. They have been banned for ove

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Just Say No to Jeff Sessions

01-09-2018 • https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Ron Paul

Attorney General Jeff Sessions kicked off the New Year by reversing the Obama-era guidance for federal prosecutors to limit their enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.

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My DMT Experience - A Personal Story

01-09-2018 • arclein

We had done an ayahuasca ceremony the night before and were going on little sleep when we pulled into the secluded cove the day after the full moon. The doctor and shaman, whom I had met the night before, were both there and they held rattles and a f

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Sessions' marijuana decision shows we learned nothing from Prohibition

01-08-2018 • usatoday.com by Christian Schneider

Recreating black markets for weed only increases crime and puts more American lives in danger.

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Ron Paul: The War on Drugs is a War on Liberty, Choice, and Responsibility

01-08-2018 • chrisinmaryville.net By Adam Dick

Libertarian communicator Ron Paul strongly criticized the United States government's war on drugs in a Saturday interview with host Michael Smerconish at CNN.

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Sessions Wages War on Natural Weed, As He Grants Maker of Fentanyl a Monopoly on Synthetic THC

01-08-2018 • dcclothesline.com by Matt Agorist

Instead of going after criminals in the government or making an attempt to thwart corruption, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made his mission clear this week--he intends to crucify those who dare to ingest a plant that makes them healthier and happi

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BREAKING: DoJ to Rescind Marijuana Policy--Making it Illegal for States to Legalize Weed

01-05-2018 • http://thefreethoughtproject.com

The U.S. Attorney General is reportedly rescinding a policy that keeps federal prosecutors from interfering with states that have legalized cannabis.

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Jeff Sessions Foolishly Targets Pot: 3 Reasons Measure Can't Work

01-05-2018 • themaven.net by Mike Mish Shedlock

Attorney General Jeff Session is taking aim legalized marijuana. His effort is not only foolish. It cannot possibly work Please consider Attorney General Jeff Sessions to End Policy that Allowed Legal Pot to Thrive.

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Will Pennsylvania State Police Violate The Law & Confiscate These Citizens' Guns?

01-04-2018 • http://www.dcclothesline.com, by Tim Brown

Back in November 2017, I reported that the State of Hawaii's Honolulu Police Department issued an order for medical marijuana users to "surrender your firearms."

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The Election Fraud in Honduras Follows Decades of Corruption Funded By the U.S. War on Drugs

01-02-2018 • theintercept.com by Danielle Marie Mackey

On the night of December 2, 2017, a Honduran woman in the rural province of Olancho was protesting what she saw as a stolen election.

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CNN Turns to Pot

01-02-2018 • https://www.youtube.com

Last year was rough for CNN. They can't shake the 'fake news' label, and so they've found a new strategy hoping to get viewers.

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Trey Gowdy Destroys DEA: "What the Hell Do You Get to Do?"

12-29-2017 • https://www.youtube.com, LR

Under tough questioning from Rep. Trey Gowdy, Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Michele Leonhart reiterated that she is unable to recommend removing agents involved in the 'Sex Parties' and denied knowing whether any of the prostitutes solicited

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Meet The "Armani of Armor" Behind America's Growing Bulletproof Clothing Industry

12-29-2017 • https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Tyler Durden

In the early 1990s, Colombia was locked in a brutal drug war, led by Pablo Escobar, that saw homicide rates in Medellin surge over 8x in a matter of just a few years…

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World Health Organization Acknowledges the Effectiveness of Cannabis as Medicine

12-29-2017 • arclein

"CBD, the second major cannabinoid in marijuana after THC, has anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, but no psychoactive effects. However, recent research shows that CBD can be an effective treatment for many kinds of pain. Inflammatory

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Portugal's radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn't the world copied it?

12-22-2017 • arclein

When the drugs came, they hit all at once. It was the 80s, and by the time one in 10 people had slipped into the depths of heroin use - bankers, university students, carpenters, socialites, miners - Portugal was in a state of panic. Álvaro Pe

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Trump Must School Sessions on Medical Marijuana. NOW.

12-20-2017 • https://www.huffingtonpost.com

Candidates tend to make bold promises to get into office, then they break those promises. Duh. Whether you agree with him or not, President Donald J. Trump has kept an awful lot of his promises so far. He's working to complete his promises on immig

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California offers second chance to people convicted of marijuana crimes

12-18-2017 • http://www.ctpost.com

Yirtuamlak Hailu Derege came to California to make it in the entertainment business, but he was convicted of selling marijuana soon after. He wants to get the charges removed so he can have better employment prospects.

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Lessons from Portugal about Ending the Drug War

12-12-2017 • https://fee.org, by Daniel J. Mitchell

People may decide it's okay to be stoners because they can rely on handouts to stay alive instead of staying clean and having a job.

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Government Is Addicted to Banning Substances

12-06-2017 • fee.org by Nate Baker

The government has a substance problem and it's time for an intervention.

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Medical TYRANNY in paradise: Hawaii to go door to door, confiscating LEGAL...

12-06-2017 • https://www.naturalnews.com

from all medical marijuana users...(Natural News) Over the past several years, liberals have constantly assured the American people that even though they support the idea of stricter gun laws, they are not out to take away anyone's legally owned fi

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Protecting its interests: FDA attacks CBD supplements to protect Big Pharma's opioid profits

12-02-2017 • arclein

Big Pharma is working overtime to restrict consumer access to cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis sativa (marijuana) that's been shown to help relieve pain, muscle spasms, and other ailments. Using the U.S. Food and Drug

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Meet the Special Interests Keeping Marijuana Criminalized

12-01-2017 • https://fee.org, by Laura Williams

Americans overwhelmingly agree that marijuana should be legal, so why isn't it? So glad you asked...

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After marijuana, are magic mushrooms next to be decriminalised in California?

11-27-2017 • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/25/ma

Mayoral candidate near San Francisco seeks signatures to put decriminalisation on statewide ballot next year, saying drug could offer healing at time of crisis

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The US Coast Guard is operating floating prisons in the Pacific Ocean, outside US legal protections

11-26-2017 • pri.org By Traci Tong

If you've followed the War on Terror at all, you're almost certainly familiar with the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- a US prison that exists outside the realm of the US justice system.