Grenades, traps, razors and snakes ward off intruders, endanger police when farmers take up some extreme intruder defense systems.
“You have to understand that it’s an economic endeavor to these people,” said Dennis Will, a former Elyria, Ohio, police narcotics supervisor. “They can’t go to the police and say, ‘Hey, someone stole my drugs.’ ”
Can’t go [...]

From The Monitor, McAllen, Texas:
The next target of the anti-drug hysteria that stems from our nation’s drug war could well be something many Americans have never heard of: marijuana-flavored lollipops. Marketed by several makers under names such as “Pot Suckers” or “Chronic Candy,” the suckers contain no THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. But that [...]

From NewYorkBusiness.com:
Despite the ongoing war on drugs and the stigma surrounding any illegal activity, a certain portion of the New York business community never turned in its rolling papers. For many of these otherwise law-abiding citizens, taking a few tokes of their favorite illicit substance is simply their preferred way to decompress. Though they might [...]

San Diego State University Press reporting.
The supreme court wrongly upheld a ruling that the federal government can seize and destroy marijuana/prosecute posessors even in a state that permits posession of marijuana for medical purposes.
“A unilateral decision not to comply with state law,” Renner said, “on the grounds that it may be prohibited by [...]

From the Bermuda Sun:
Describing the pain, she said: “It’s pulsating. It’s like, Bam! It hits you and then it hits you again and it continues like that, intermittent pain every few seconds.”
The Bermudan woman cannot understand why Marijuana is not legal.
She’s tried a variety of painkillers but nothing has been as effective [...]

Well, they can, but they’re probably not and we don’t think they are.
From About.com:
Time to Legalize Marijuana? - 500+ Economists Endorse Marijuana Legalization
Anyone who has ever read Milton Friedman’s Free To Choose (a book everyone interested in Economics should read at some point in their life) knows that Friedman is a staunch supporter of the [...]

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

Did you know that America incarcerates males of African decent at a rate 4 times greater than Apartheid in South Africa? Did you know that there are more African Americans in jail today then were enslaved in 1820?
Besides being inhumane, unjust, and wasteful, the war on drugs is also racist. The United [...]

Thanks to Drug Policy Alliance. (emphasis ours)
Eleven states have adopted medical marijuana laws since 1996 - most of them by a vote of the people (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington). More than 20% of the U.S. population now lives in a state where public opinion and the [...]

At the same time that most Mass folks were voting against George W. Bush in the 2004 elections, another question was put forth on the ballot: Should marijuana be decriminalized? If the legislation proposed on the ballot was carried out, possession of small amounts of the drug, less than one oz, would become [...]