And the government wonders why the public doesn't have faith in the justice
system!
Mich. officer and wife admitted using drugs taken from suspects for baking
Updated: 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
DEARBORN, Mich. - A police officer will avoid criminal charges despite
admitting he took marijuana from
I despise politics, don't think highly of most politicians, and this is not
sent as a political email. You can call it off topic if you chose, but it
contains information about a valuable tool that could enable us to get our
nation back on track.
No matter what your gripe is about our world,
City of Elkton: Mayor, police chief,Community News newsletter et al.
An interesting story for any newsletter is right under your nose - you have
a prophet in your town. He's being held in the Christian County Jail for
dispensing a message from God along with marijuana samples.
Ronnie Turner
Leave it to NIDA to waste money on 'Cannabis Related Disorders'. What
symptoms do these disorders carry? Free thinking? Civil Disobedience?
Using it? Sharing it with neighbors? What would be the side effects of the
medicine they would use to treat these 'disorders'? Liver damage? Loss of
USSC Reduces CRACK COCAINE OFFENSES up to 16 Months.
News Release
U.S. Sentencing Commission
One Columbus Circle NE
Washington, DC 20002-8002
For Immediate Release
April 27, 2007
Contact: Michael Courlander
Public Affairs Officer
(202) 502-4597
U.S. SENTENCING
Not sure about his strategy but Ronnie Turner sure made his statement. I
have to root for this guy. Go to this link for several pictures.
http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=6434982
Ky. Man Inspired To Give Away Marijuana
April 27, 2007 02:05 AM EDT
ELKTON, Ky.- Neighbors said
Alternatives to prison are a lot cheaper
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070423/OPINION03/704230332/1104/OPINION
Posted Monday, April 23, 2007
OPINION
Harry F. Themal
Prison or probation? If you're living with a tight state budget, there's no
comparison.
Delaware
Im sure the laws have a lot to do with cannabis being 'more dangerous' than
alcohol, but I'm hoping some of the letter writers will take on Professor
Patton. Kay Lee
Source: Independent - UK
http://news.independent.co.uk/
Heavy cannabis use by teens is more dangerous than alcohol
Nation’s marijuana laws were founded in bigotry
http://forum.grasscity.com/general-marijuana-news-around-world/149447-nation-s-marijuana-laws-were-founded-bigotry.html
By Roshan Bliss
Publication Date: 04/20/07
President Jimmy Carter once told Congress that penalties against
If an owner choses to feed his children to the dog, but doesn't have to pay
for the dog, his keep, or the missing kids, what's to stop him from feeding
his neighbors to the bloated dog? Then the good citizens of the town, the
countryside... Where will it all end?
Florida is one of the many
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-id.overdose15apr15,0,6913632.story
From the Baltimore Sun
Teaching addicts to stay alive
Death toll drops as Baltimore instructs inmates how to deal with overdoses
By Jonathan Bor
sun reporter
April 15, 2007
Standing before 50 men dressed in red
AN INTERESTING BOOK
Army's Hallucinogenic Weapons Unveiled
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/the_secrets_of_.html
EXCERPT:
So much conspiracy and disinformation surrounds the military's past work on
LSD and other chemical agents that it's been difficult to separate fact from
fiction.
Bored Meth Users Committing Identity Theft, Sex Offenses
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Top law enforcement officials say an influx of Mexican methamphetamine is
overshadowing recent success in curtailing homegrown meth labs and is
fueling a crime wave caused by addicts who can stay
Why is it in politics there never seems to be enough to carry out good
ideas, but bad ideas roll on and on ad nauseum.
Friday, April 13, 2007
FL - Moratorium Placed on New Cases for Overloaded Fla. Drug Court
Daily Business Review
A Florida drug court that's become a national model imitated
MAKE THE FIGHT AGAINST COCAINE MORE EFFECTIVE
4/12/2007
Dear friends,
As we struggle to stop the flood of cocaine that is poisoning so many
lives in the United States, we need a more rational division of the work of
apprehending and prosecuting those who
Monday, April 09, 2007 9:00 PM
Urge U.S. Senators To Pass Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiations Act
One of the health care initiatives in the National Retiree Legislative
Network's 2007 Legislative Agenda is the passage of the Medicare
Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act of
Open Letter to Members of Dallas County 'Justice':
I want you all to know that I have just sent the following email to
approximately 63,000 people with many more who will see it onsite. For two
years, while waiting on justice, Sharif and I have quietly built his case on
angelfire. No more
?
Kay Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2683 Rockcliff Road Southeast
Atlanta Georgia 30316
404-212-0690
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY TRIAL By Karen Jones
Dear KayLee: I am writing to you so that you can possibly get everyone to
understand just what went wrong with my lawsuit and trial.
First: This is the FIRST
Will the Supreme Court Separate Drug Speech from Free Speech?
By Daniel Abrahamson, AlterNet
Posted on March 23, 2007, Printed on March 23, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/49635/
On Monday, March 19, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning the scope of
student speech in public high schools.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Smoking: Weed or Pole?
Reason has an interesting post up about prison rape and the drug war, which
quotes from this article. http://www.spr.org/en/pressreleases/2007/03_22_07.asp
While anyone can be a victim of prisoner rape, inmates convicted of a
non-violent drug
Bless her heart. For a change this bill seriously addresses prison overcrowding
in a much more creative way than building more prisons. Maybe you know someone
who could give her a hand? KL
HB2391
Relating to the appearance of certain misdemeanor offenders before a magistrate
Cincinnatti Ohio's City Council enacted an emergency marijuana ordinance last
year. They said they would not reinstate the law this year unless it lowered
crime and got guns off the streets of the city. A new crime report shows that
the law did neither, yet the City Council Members are
I am aware that this has little to do with the drug war (except another
possible prohibited substance), the prison situation, free speech (well, maybe
free speech), world peace or constitutional law, but considering that lung
cancer could easily affect you or someone you love, perhaps you can
Fast for PeaceSometimes there seems to be so little we can do to encourage
change, to take a stand for something in which we believe, or to support each
other in protest. This father will lift his soldier son's death up for peace.
You can stand with him, send notes of support, or donate water
Childhood Goals
We have surpassed 1984. I'm not surprised though. I don't know if it is true
or not, but it was reported that way back in the late forties or early fifties,
at a summit of top power people, someone's speach included, If we can get
control of the children by the age of five,
Nearly Half Of College Students Abusing Drugs Or Alcohol
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Nearly half of America's 5.4 million full-time college students abuse drugs or
drink alcohol on binges at least once a month, says a new study that portrays
substance and alcohol abuse as an
Multiple Sclerosis Sufferer Serving 25-Year Sentence for Taking Pain Killers
Damn the drug war mentality, and damn Florida for too often being the most
mean-spirited state in the Union. First Florida doctors would not adequately
treat Richard Paey's MS pain. Then Florida narcs spent weeks
REEFER MADNESS -- Old Time Radio and the Library of Congress:
From Antique Andy, Museum Curator, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MUSEUM OF REEFER MADNESS V2-8
As many of you know the Library of Congress has a copy of the following Old
Time Radio program:
BEHIND PRISON BARS -- April 11, 1938 - The Story of
War on Drugs is war on our own people
Ellen Taylor
Eureka Times Standard
Article Launched:03/11/2007 10:38:14 AM PDT
http://www.times-standard.com/opinion/ci_5418494
Mike Goldsby, a highly-respected local expert in drug addiction, declared
in last
Although, if reducing prison overcrowding is the goal (and that is a noble
effort in the right direction), California had better begin building rehab
centers out the ying yang to handle the numbers of drug offenders this new law
is going to send them. In fact, unless they are very discerning
There is a post at http://www.itsyourtimes.com/?q=node/2563#comment-7929 that
really needs response. The very first sentence let me know what direction the
post was going to take. This guy, Kevin Butterfield, is so misinformed, I'm not
sure what point to discuss with him first. It would help
Marijuana Odor Insufficient for Warrantless Search
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_5397956
Posted by CN Staff on March 09, 2007 at 11:45:52 PT
By Pamela Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune
Source: Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com
Utah -- The odor of burning marijuana is insufficient to allow
The reality is a drugless society is unnatural. Therefore, since drugs are
obviously here to stay, it's got to be about reducing the harms. An RSA report
out today says drugs can be harmless and recommends introduction of drug
injecting rooms. Why are we so far behind other countries in
He's still going to be on probation and we already know probation is a road
that at least 65% of the time leads back to prison. I just don't understand
why 17 years isn't enough for them. KL
PS: Governor Perry, don't forget about George Martarano also doing life for
pot. www.freegeorge.us/
If lawmakers are discussing making cannabis legal, so should we. By the way,
the article below doesn't mention that the pot smoker who was not shy about
lighting up in Annapolis is puffing legal marijuana.
The government sends Irvin Rosenfeld 300 pre-rolled joints of their own pot per
month
Most recent mental and moral faux paux: Immigration Policies stir Private and
Prison Profits: Planned or unplanned, Public Loses
by Kay Lee, MTWT
We can't financially afford to be locking up people we aren't really afraid of.
We tried that for too many years and now every jail and prison in
Mississippians are trying but 'safe' politics keep getting in the way. kl
Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:23 PM
Prisons: 'Smart' drug bill should have passed
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070301/OPINION01/703010317/1008/OPINION
'TOUGH' IS DUMB
a..
Pot vs. Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, too.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1403365.ece
With Comments.
From The Times
February 19, 2007
You're never too old to dream
Terence Kealey: Science Notebook
How do cannabis, heroin, morphine and other
Prisons and Jails all over the nation are seriously overcrowded and a variety
of methods are being discussed to alleviate the problem. Of course we know the
best solution - change the laws that put non-violent people in prison.
Kay Lee
DEL - Panel to consider bill to revise drug sentencing
The writer of this article seems a bit uneducated. Hooked on pot..? I've
never felt withdrawal symptoms from being out of Cannabis... but then I'm not
an addictive personality.* I don't smoke stems of the hemp plant, as the
article states. And don't we already have research that shows
A principle who does everything else right, but who has a bad addiction was
just arrested in front of his students. I have no idea if the officer's
statement that the man wanted to use the drug at school is true or not: Cops
tend to put words in people's mouths and guns in their hands, so it
You may have noticed that nearly every state across the nation is facing
overcrowded prisons and trying to come up with a method to reduce the prison
population. Most focus on shuffling prisoners around. Most states however
haven't even considered demanding the reform of unnecessary laws that
Mr. Fair. I just read 'An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare and was rivited by
your memories. It takes a lot of strength and courage to stand against the
terrible wrongs of war. Yes, you could have refused orders back then, but you
could have also gone to your grave without a word. Don't be too
UPDATE - Great-grandma seeks Justice from System she Knows is Broken.
In December, without fanfare, I was handcuffed and ruthlessly deposited on the
well-worn trail of justice. The trip thus far has only been verification of
what I already know: The Justice system isn't doing what it was
and
mental hospitals. (You can read all about my pre-marijuana life at
http://www.angelfire.com/la/kaylee/depression.html)
So I began researching, particularly mental health care, including
controversial and illegal but natural plants like marijuana. I discovered this
plant has a remarkably
If you don't know John Flahive, you should take a moment to say hello.
He is a wonderful young man whoadvocates forGeorge Martoranoand
others like him. George is the prisoner serving the longest sentence in
the American federal prison systemto date for a non-violent 1st time
marijuana
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