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- US CA: Recall Effort Moves Ahead; Medical Pot Activists Seek
Record Searchlight, 08 Mar 2023 - The group looking to oust three Redding City Council members for their vote to ban medical marijuana dispensaries can now begin collecting signatures on the recall petitions, the local man orchestrating the recall said Thursday. But they'll now need to convince more than 9,000 Redding voters to sign the petitions to put the matter on a future ballot. - France's New President to Invest Heavily in Marijuana Arrests
[image:1 align:right]France's new president, François Hollande, has vowed to coread more - Would Romney be Worse for Medical Marijuana Than Obama? Ctd
Andrew Sullivan responds to my statement that, regarding medical marijuana, "I honestly doubt Romney could be any worse than [Obama] if he tried." - How Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Establishment Drugged Up Our Kids
Pediatric psychopharmacology is a billion-dollar business that sustains Pharma and Pharma investors on Wall Street. - New York Police Stop Every Young Black Man in the City…For Safety
The latest data on stop and frisks in New York City is nothing short of horrifying. Kristen Gwynne at AlterNet reports.read more - How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail
Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system, a system that is not equipped or willing to punish their crimes. - "The Whole System Relies on These Arrests": The NYPD's Racist Marijuana Arrest Crusade And Its National Implications
New York’s marijuana arrests, says a growing chorus of critics, are a prime example of how the nation’s drug laws disproportionately impact black and Latino communities. - US ME: OPED: Medical Marijuana Needs Federal Oversight
Portland Daily Sun, 15 May 2012 - President Obama tried again to do the right thing and let states alone to regulate and enforce medical marijuana laws, keeping federal law in place in case they're needed to clean up any danger to the industry. For now it looks like the plan is mostly working. California and Colorado have become perps for federal agents to clean out. I'm a liberal Libertarian and proud of our President and his staff, for in a conservative way are successfully being pro-active before people making too much money get more greedy. I have a license, if you will, to purchase legal marijuana when presenting my recommendation for prescription is up to date. - Canada: Former Supreme Court Justice Blasts Minimum Sentences
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 15 May 2012 - Canada's new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on "very bad criminal law policy" and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial proportionality, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour says. The law should, and almost certainly will, face a justifiable constitutional challenge, Arbour adds of the omnibus crime legislation, Bill C-10, which received royal assent in March (www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocidT65759&file=4). - US VA: City Council Addresses Marijuana Enforcement Problem
cville, 15 May 2012 - In the Weeds A resolution that would have marked a shift in city policy toward prosecuting marijuana possession was ultimately passed by City Council last week as a watered-down request for the state to re-examine its drug policy, but that didn't keep the debate over legalization from raging on.
