This Week in Civil Liberties
The theme this week was "without": combating the spread of AIDS without actual tools and information to combat the spread of AIDS, searches without warrants, protections for business without protections for everybody else, government burea...
Categories: drug law reform, drug sentencing, E-Verify, GPS, HIV/AIDS, medical marijuana, Supreme Court, surveillance, video games, warrantless tracking Tags:
Obama DOJ Leaves Medical Marijuana Patients Sick and Suffering
On Wednesday, the Obama Justice Department issued a new memo to all U.S. Attorneys clarifying the DOJ's position on federal prosecutions of state-sanctioned medical marijuana use. It's not good news. According to Deputy Attorney General James M. Co...
Categories: David Ogden, drug law reform, Eric Holder, James Cole, medical marijuana, medicinal marijuana Tags:
Weekly Highlights: News from the War on Drugs
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, has produced little to no effect on the supply of demand for drugs in the United States,...