Sell weed to pay rent? Prison! Launder $9B for drug cartels? Bonuses!
The financial settlement with British megabank HSBC shows how the high-finance criminals finance your high and profit handsomely while you go to prison if you try to profit.
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Sell weed to pay rent? Prison! Launder $9B for drug cartels? Bonuses!
The financial settlement with British megabank HSBC shows how the high-finance criminals finance your high and profit handsomely while you go to prison if you try to profit.
Police terrorize Santa Rosa neighborhood over backyard marijuana grows
This is terrorism, plain and simple, designed to push marijuana use underground, to frighten law-abiding citizens into abandoning their right to medical marijuana use in California by showing them who’s really the boss.
The Police Myth of “We don’t go looking for marijuana arrests”
I came upon a defense for the status quo of prohibition we hear from police all the time when they oppose a marijuana medicalization, decriminalization, or legalization measure: We don’t need it because cops aren’t looking for weed!
Kevin Sabet’s Kinder Gentler Drug War
This “Kinder Gentler Drug War” strategy depends on framing the current situation as “The Drug War We Have Now” vs. “Legalizing All Drugs For Open Sale at the 7-Eleven”, so Dr. Sabet can paint himself as the rational moderate staking out a position in the middle.
Robert “Bobby Tuna” Platshorn makes Miami NewTimes’ “Best Local Boy Made Good”
The 69-year-old former leader of the Black Tuna Gang — which the DEA dubbed his ’70s-era stoner collective of pot importers — has instead become one of the nation’s most visible proponents of medical marijuana.
Marijuana Legalization – The Civil Rights Battle It’s Still OK to Mock
Marijuana legalization is the only civil rights issue in America where it is still acceptable to mock the oppressed by questioning the selfish motives of those fighting for equality.
When you close dispensaries, car-jackings of marijuana delivery drivers follow
A woman who was delivering medical marijuana near San Diego’s borders with La Mesa and Lemon Grove was shot in the face with a pellet gun and carjacked, San Diego police said Saturday. The irony, of course, is that these localities that fret about and shut down medical marijuana dispensaries do so because they fear the criminals who might rob the stores loaded with money and marijuana.
