Drugs in Our Culture: Vintage Film Covers 1960s Drug Use in School
On August 28, 2008 in Medical Marijuana, Video
Stephen Colbert Reports on Medical Marijuana
On August 15, 2008 in Drug War, Humor, Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Video
According to this report, just because 12 states legalized the use of medical marijuana, it doesn’t necessarily make it legal.
Feds Score Another Conviction Against a California Medical Marijuana Dispensary Operator
On August 15, 2008 in Courts, Law Enforcement, Legalization, Medical Marijuana
In a trial that garnered national attention because of the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws, a federal jury in Los Angeles Tuesday convicted the owner of a Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary on five counts of violating federal drug laws. As was the case in previous federal prosecutions, the defense was not allowed to mount a medical marijuana defense or even mention the words “medical marijuana” during the course of the trial.
Charles Lynch, 46, operator of Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers in San Luis Obispo County, faces a minimum of five years in prison and as many as 85 years after being found guilty of distributing more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, some of it to people considered minors under federal law. Read the rest of this entry »
Drug User Group Demonstrates for Legal Drug Use in Jakarta
On August 15, 2008 in Activism, Drug War, Legalization, World
Indonesia’s harsh drug laws have not succeeded in stopping illicit drug use in the Southeast Asian archipelago, and now some of the people those laws are aimed at are speaking out. On Monday [August 4, 2008], denizens of some of Jakarta’s most notorious drug dealing spots were witness to an usual demonstration as two dozen motorcyclists roared through them calling for the legalization of drug use. Read the rest of this entry »
Bolivia to Fund Own Anti-Drug Unit, Wants to Reduce ‘U.S. Influence’
On August 15, 2008 in Drug War, Government, Law Enforcement, World
The Bolivian government will fund an anti-drug unit for the first time next year in a bid to reduce foreign involvement in its fight against the cocaine trade. The primary foreign country involved in Bolivian anti-drug matters is the United States, although it currently gets some added from the European Union, too.
Bolivia is the world’s number three coca and cocaine producer, behind Colombia and Peru, and has a government sympathetic to coca growers. But it has insisted it is combating the diversion of coca into the illicit cocaine market under the slogan “zero cocaine, not zero coca.” Read the rest of this entry »
