There will be a press conference (Facebook Event Link) for the Idaho Three (Lindsey & Josh Rinehart and Sarah Caldwell) on the steps of the Statehouse in Boise this Monday at 2pm Mountain Time.
There will be a press conference (Facebook Event Link) for the Idaho Three (Lindsey & Josh Rinehart and Sarah Caldwell) on the steps of the Statehouse in Boise this Monday at 2pm Mountain Time.
How tragically absurd. If your child has access to a lethal machine that kills someone, it’s just an accident. If your child has access to a non-lethal plant that heals someone, it’s child endangerment
The Illinois House just voted 61-57 to pass the nation’s strictest medical marijuana bill, which would make Illinois the nineteenth state to legalize the use of limited amounts of marijuana under strict medical conditions.
Continuing to fight a medical-only fight for marijuana is only going to produce more restrictive, less effective medical marijuana laws. At every successive state, there will be some group of patients who will be left behind to secure marijuana rights for a dwindling group of the most severely ill and disabled.
Kevin Sabet is at it again. This time, he unloaded his lies, half-truths, misdirections, and obfuscations to the Alaska Dispatch. I’ve harvested his freshest Reefer Madness for a brief debunking:
To summarize, the Longview Police spent an unknown amount of man-hours investigating and setting-up people who had well below the legal plant limit for a collective, well below the marijuana limit for a collective, because they were selling marijuana, an activity that will be legal next year and is somewhat legal now for medical users, to people who would smoke and possess it, which is legal right now.
Patients that have cancer, glaucoma or HIV/AIDS in Oregon represent 6.7% of all patients or 4.6% of all conditions. But certainly, having those conditions could also result in some pain. So how many of these patients are qualifying only for pain, in absence of any other condition?
Bills to modify regulations for the Oregon medical marijuana program, add post-traumatic stress disorder to the qualifying conditions list, and legalize marijuana for recreational use have all been filed in the Oregon Legislature.
Speaking on behalf of Project SAM, or Smart Approaches to Marijuana, Dr. Kevin Sabet explained that advocates for medical marijuana legalization are “putting on white coats and pretending to have compassion for the sick and dying.”
An Oklahoma Senate committee has rejected a medical marijuana bill in the first-ever hearing held on the issue in Oklahoma. The 6-2 vote was split along party lines with the Republicans defeating the proposal.
Jeremy Echols tells his story as a father who found medical cannabis to be an effective treatment for his son Alex, who suffers from severe autism rage.
Kevin’s latest propaganda campaign is called Project SAM – Smart Approaches to Marijuana. (The campaign to legalize marijuana in Colorado was “Smart Colorado”. The other campaign was “New Approach Washington”. Smoking weed makes you more creative, I guess.)
This morning at 6am I launched SmartApproaches.com. It is a page-for-page satire of the website LearnAboutSAM.com, which was recently mentioned in various news media as the front page for Project SAM. It uses actual policy positions and rhetorical claims from Project SAM and peppers them with copious amounts of snark, studies, sarcasm, and science. And fake evil-Spock goatees.
Basically, this is Kevin Sabet’s game plan writ large. Sabet wants to paint the “War on Drugs” on one side and the “Legalizers” on the other side and proclaim them both to be irrational extremes, and only SAM I Am will have the rational, middle ground approach.
To open the New Year, I was presented with a bouquet of reefer madness so pungent it compelled me to write it up three days before the end of my vacation. Oregon State Senator Doug Whitsett wrote “Marijuana: more potent now and unquestionably addictive” in the Oregon Catalyst. I retort and debunk.
The new Monitoring the Future study shows marijuana use down in every grade level for every frequency except 12-grade monthly use, which rose 0.3 points; Cannabis Q&A with Dr. Mitch Earleywine; Top 5 Cannabis Science Stories of 2012; music by Bing Crosby
Under suspicion of littering and the smell of pot, two women are publicly searched for any contraband marijuana they might have been hiding under their breasts, in their colons, or up their vaginas.
The latest Monitoring the Future survey is out. Like any collection of statistics about marijuana, the drug warriors will spin them to advance the agenda of drug-testing, discriminating against, locking up, and re-educating adults who choose marijuana over martinis, Marlboros, Midol, or morphine.
The massive failure of the Justice Department to prosecute bankers who laundered billions for drug cartels make medical marijuana raids even more disgusting; The Top Five Stupid Prohibition Stories of 2012; How does legalization affect hemp?; music by Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Denver activist uncovers editing by FOX affiliate to make marijuana driving simulator appear worse than it was; tactical advice on defeating the push for per se DUIDs; music by Jet Baker, Josh Belville.
