ARE 13 SYMBOLS IN AN X PATTERN INHERENTLY OFFENSIVE? Hey, Blenders, I’m back from my long, strange trip to wherever it is baristas go when they haven’t posted in Read More » 2011-03-23 20:32 No Comments
Top Ten Lies of the No on 19 Campaign Top Ten Lies of the No on 19 Campaign 10. Prop 19 is a “thinly-veiled prohibition” that “creates new felonies.” Read More » 2010-11-11 23:02 No Comments
WILL MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION MOBILIZE THE LEFT LIKE GAY MARRIAGE AMENDMENTS MOBILIZED THE RIGHT? Ryan Grim at Huffington Post reports on the notion going round political circles that California’s Prop 19 (and, to a lesser extent, medical Read More » 2010-08-02 20:38 No Comments
DEMOCRATS MAKE CRACK COCAINE SENTENCING SLIGHTLY LESS RACIST Netroots Nation was a blast! I got to have a great hour with Pam, eating chicken salads and catching up Read More » 2010-07-01 20:50 No Comments
Oregon Hospitals Denying Transplants to MedMJ Patients The Portland Tribune reports: “Jim Klahr needs a new liver. And he wants to take medical marijuana to help with Read More » 2010-05-28 18:22 No Comments
ANTI-GAY, ANTI-POT REP. MARK SOUDER WANTS FORGIVENESS? I woke up this morning to the news that Rep. Mark Souder, 8-term Indiana Republican, was resigning amidst a sexual Read More » 2010-05-18 20:49 No Comments
THE NEW JIM CROW: HOW THE WAR ON DRUGS GAVE BIRTH TO A PERMANENT AMERICAN UNDERCASTE I work this issue every day and am well aware of the racist nature of the War on (Certain American Read More » 2010-03-10 20:46 No Comments
PRINCESS BARBIE TALIBANIA COMPLAINS OF ACADEMIC BIAS IN SPEAKER SELECTION Howdy, Blenders! Busy busy busy and haven’t posted in a while and I miss you all! I’ve been called from Read More » 2010-02-19 20:45 No Comments
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CAN KILL YOU… IF YOU NEED AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT Medical marijuana activists like to claim that cannabis has never killed anyone. While it is true that cannabis is remarkably Read More » 2010-01-24 20:43 No Comments
NORM KENT ON THE SUICIDE OF MIKE PENNER One of my colleagues from the NORML Board of Directors wrote this compelling piece on Counterpunch.org: The suicide this past Read More » 2009-12-01 20:42 No Comments
WHY DO MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES WIN AND GAY MARRIAGES LOSE ON THE SAME BALLOT IN MAINE? As I wind up my evening in the West Coast Portland, I log in to the WCHS6 website on the Read More » 2009-11-04 20:41 No Comments
DUMP PAYPAL OVER ANTI-FIRST AMENDMENT POLICIES PayPal has decided that a listing of doctors who legally recommend cannabis as medicine in California makes California NORML unworthy Read More » 2009-10-13 20:59 No Comments