Criminal Justice System

June 20, 2011

A Trillion Dollar Failure: The War on Drugs

          By Anonymous The MetroWest Daily News Posted Jun 19, 2011 @ 12:45 AM   A milestone in America’s longest war passed quietly on Friday. Too quietly. On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared that “Public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug […]
June 19, 2011

Rep. John Conyers Says Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized

      At a press conference at the National Press Club on Friday, representatives of Institute of the Black World, as well as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, and others met to look at the impact that our nation’s failed war on drugs has […]
June 19, 2011

40th Anniversary of the War on Drugs Marijuana accepted by the mainstream

            “Call off The Drug War” says former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in an op-ed for the New York Times. His article is released on the 40th anniversary of the day that President Nixon declared America in a “war on drugs.” Carter aligns himself with […]
June 16, 2011

Today Marks 40 Years Of Failure in the War on Drugs

Pundits in The Hill, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and mainstream media around the nation today are lamenting the 40-year-anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of the ‘war on drugs.’ Authors of these critiques include former President Jimmy Carter, former city of Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper […]
June 16, 2011

Nixon’s thoughts on the 40th anniversary of his “War on Drugs”

      Get the facts about Nixon’s War on Marijuana Consumers – Pre-Order your copy of NORML’s Big Book of Marijuana Facts today! It was forty years ago today, Richard Nixon taught the world to hate The people who would smoke a weed Protesting war and hate and greed. […]
June 16, 2011

The Colorado Board of Health Makes Controversial Changes To Amendment 20 Rules For Medical Marijuana Caregivers

        The Colorado Board of Health Makes Controversial Changes To Amendment 20 Rules For Medical Marijuana Caregivers On Wednesday, the Colorado Board of Health approved some changes to Amendment 20, which allows for medical use of marijuana in the state, that directly effects medical marijuana providers. The […]
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