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Georgia sheriff busted by feds for selling pot out of cop car

By William Breathes on September 23, 2013 News, Say what?

“I’ll take a dime bag, officer.”

Newton County, Georgia is currently down one stoney police officer.
Deputy Darrell Mathis was arrested last week after allegedly repeatedly selling marijuana while on duty and bragging about being above the law because he technically wasthe law. We’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt and call it undermining the drug war from within.

Celebs, athletes, politicians, religious leaders urge Obama for drug law reform

By William Breathes on April 9, 2013 Culture, News

Wikipedia commons.

Rusell Simmons.

What do P-Diddy, Cameron Diaz, Nicki Minaj, Ron Howard and Mark Wahlberg all have in common? Aside from being ridiculously famous and wealthy, they all support the reformation of drug laws in this country.
More than 175 actors, artists, athletes and elected officials signed on to an open letter to President Obama today, asking him to change our drug policy laws from punitive, harsh jail times to one that favors evidence- based prevention and rehabilitation.

Feds say rodeo clown was mastermind behind Iowa marijuana operation

By William Breathes on March 12, 2013 News, Say what?

Rory Meeks, from Facebook.

Rory Meeks lives a daring life. When he’s not busy dodging a raging bull in the rodeo ring as a rodeo clown and bullfighter, he’s also apparently been busy dodging law enforcement around Jones County, Iowa. That is until April of 2011 when he was arrested for cultivating marijuana.
On Friday, Meeks was convicted in a Cedar Rapids federal court on one count of conspiracy to manufacturing marijuana. During the trial, federal prosecutors argued that Meeks had set up grow locations near corn and soybean fields and other hidden spots and spent all summer going around from location to location tending his crops.

Pot-Growing School ‘THC University’ Opens In Denver

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2013 Culture, Growing, Products

Worth Repeating: The New Cannabis-Based Economy

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 28, 2012 Culture

Mother Jones

Fuel, food, shelter, healing, and spiritual enlightenment — the amazing cannabis plant it does it all!

Marijuana Spring 2013, Part 2

By Ron Marczyk, RN

Toke of the Town Columnist

Marijuana legalization for personal use is just the start. This vote also frees medical marijuana research, hemp farming, and a return to a hemp-based economy that will play a vital part in reversing the coming man-made environmental disaster.

Marijuana prohibition criminalizes the use of the safest, most versatile plant known to man.

Marijuana prohibition is in large part a cause of global warming.

Marijuana prohibition has stopped 75 years of human progress; it is an idea that will be thrown on the scrap heap of history.

Former 502 Backer Now Says New Pot Law Too Restrictive

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 12, 2012 Legislation, News

Drug War Odyssey

“I now question whether Washington state’s initiative needed to be as restrictive as it is.”

~ Norm Stamper, former police chief of Seattle

Norm Stamper — the former police chief of Seattle and current member of legalization group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) who was one of the biggest supporters of I-502 in Washington state — now says that the measure is probably too restrictive.

While it’s a real shame that Norm couldn’t have taken a closer look at the restrictive and downright scary portions of I-502 before giving countless interviews and writing dozens of letters to the editor in support of the measure, the former cop’s about-face does highlight the glaring flaws in Washington’s “legalization” law, and serves to temper the euphoria which has gripped many in the Evergreen State’s cannabis community.

Just a month after the election, Stamper told the Seattle Weekly‘s Nina Shapiro, “I now question whether Washington state’s initiative needed to be as restrictive as it is.”

Cops Ask Dept. of Justice to Respect State Marijuana Laws

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 20, 2012 Legislation, News

NorCal Blogs

LEAP Cites Public Safety Concerns Created by Illegal Marketplace

A former narcotics cop on Tuesday morning delivered a letter signed by 73 current and former police officers, judges, prosecutors and federal agents to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him not to interfere with the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington State to legalize and regulate marijuana.

“We seem to be at a turning point in how our society deals with marijuana,” said Neill Franklin, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), the group that authored the letter. “The war on marijuana has funded the expansion of drug cartels, it has destroyed community-police relations and it has fostered teenage use by creating an unregulated market where anyone has easy access.

Marijuana: Past The Tipping Point, Waiting For The Flipping Point

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 12, 2012 Culture

ACLU

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

I am such a downer. Since Election Day, many friends, colleagues, and even my in-laws and family members who don’t fancy one of theirs being a pot writer, called or wrote wanting to know what I thought of Washington and Colorado passing what they’re calling “the legalization of marijuana.”

I should be ecstatic, as many of the well-wishers have commented. I tell them that it is a win. I tell them that it is progress. What I can’t tell them… is what’s going to happen next.

What we’re dealing with here are cultural norms.

The question to me is, what is society going to do? How as a nation are we going to look at marijuana? What kind of resistance is there going to be?

NM Cannabis Expert To Speak On Effects Of Medical Marijuana Program

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 31, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

Jane Phillips/The New Mexican

Steve Jenison, who worked as medical director for New Mexico’s medical marijuana program until his retirement, will voice his support for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, Issue 5

Arkansas Doctors Show Support for Issue 5

A press conference featuring Arkansas doctors voicing their support of Issue 5, the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act, will be held Thursday, November 1. Dr. Steve Jenison, chair of the New Mexico Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, will be the featured speaker. Dr. Jenison will speak about the success of the New Mexico program — its regulations, oversight and impact on the State of New Mexico, and about the similarity of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act to New Mexico’s own program.

Dr. Jenison worked at New Mexico’s Department of Health as the medical director for the medicinal cannabis program before he retired.

Website Tracks Celebrities Who Support Legalizing Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 22, 2012 Culture, Legislation, News

Marijuana Majority

Marijuana Reform Is An Increasingly Mainstream, Majority-Support Position

Site Lets Supporters Tweet Prominent People to Encourage Speaking Out

Just over two weeks before voters in three U.S. states decide on ballot measures to legalize marijuana, a new website launches on Monday that tracks prominent people and organizations speaking out in favor of changing marijuana laws. MarijuanaMajority.com allows visitors to see just how mainstream this debate has become by viewing and sharing visually appealing lists of elected officials, actors, medical organizations and business leaders who support solutions like decriminalizing marijuana possession, allowing medical marijuana or legalizing and regulating marijuana sales for adult use.

In addition to tracking prominent people who have already spoken out, MarijuanaMajority.com has a social component that lets individual supporters play a role in convincing even more opinion leaders to publicly say they favor reform. Visitors to the site will be able to easily send targeted tweets to celebrities and politicians with just a few clicks, encouraging them to speak out and join the Marijuana Majority. Among the initial “Get Out the Quote” targets are Ben Affleck, Mark Cuban, John Cusack, Van Jones, Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”), Shaquille O’Neal, Rihanna and Kanye West.

“At a time when polls show that a majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana and that mega-majorities support allowing medical marijuana or at least decriminalizing possession, it makes no sense whatsoever that so many national politicians look at this issue as some kind of dangerous third rail of politics,” said Tom Angell, founder and chairman of Marijuana Majority.

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