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POPSEd Meese Suddenly Worried About the Prison Population So, Ed Meese, we respectfully disagree with you, when you say that "liberal ideas of extending the power of the state" are to blame for an out-of-control criminal justice system. You are, after all, the Ed Meese who said once said this: U.S News & World Report: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
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POPSFarmers Arrested Planting Hemp on DEA Headquarters Lawn Hemp is not a drug and has no capacity to get someone stoned. Currently eight states -- Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia -- allow industrial hemp production or research, but federal law, which requires nearly-impossible-to-obtain-permits to grow hemp, trumps those state laws. A bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) would allow states to craft their own policies. Some facts from North American Industrial Hemp Council: Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber (textiles and paper) and food. Hemp oil once greased machines. Most paints, resins, shellacs, and varnishes used to be made out of linseed (from flax) and hemp oils. Rudolph Diesel designed his engine to run on hemp oil The products that can be made from hemp number over 25,000.
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POPSFox News Has Hired A Supporter of Convicted Cop-Killer As An"Analyst" and "Contributor" and "started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students." It also says that he works with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, "focusing on drug informant policy." The ACLU favors legalization of all drugs. James Pera, a retired San Francisco Police Sergeant who saw first-hand the violence of the BLA and the Weather Underground, asked, "Why does O'Reilly pander to this tool of the left? I don't know. If they can bash the Obama Administration for not vetting left-wing radical Van Jones, shouldn’t they explain how Marc Lamont Hill was hired and who hired him?
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POPSMake Marijuana Legal It’s no surprise that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s own administrative law judge, Francis Young, came to the conclusion in 1988 that “marijuana may well be the safest psychoactive substance commonly used in human history." But when all is said and done, the principal, and most principled, argument in favor of ending marijuana prohibition is this: whether or not I or anyone else consume marijuana should be none of the government’s business-so long as I’m not behind the wheel of a car or otherwise putting others at risk. It’s time to get the government off my property and out of both my pockets and my body when it comes to marijuana. Enough is enough.
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POPSFormer judge fired up on making pot legal Judge sorta sums it all up don't you think???????? :) First, there are the drug lords in Mexico and beyond. Then the drug gangs that peddle the stuff here. Next come the law enforcement agencies, prison contractors and prison guards, which use the war on drugs to demand more resources. And finally, there are the politicians who have wooed voters since the Nixon administration by pledging to support the war on drugs. "My personal opinion," says Gray, "is that we couldn't have done worse if we tried."
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POPS A Violent Border "We can do significant things," she said. "And you know we're not -- let me be very, very clear -- we are not removing border-protection agents who are between the ports of entry guarding our border. We are not doing that. We need those people....We need those boots on the ground on illegal immigration." "I can say that there are several cabinet- and security-level departments that are working with us now and looking at what can be done," she said, "not only to protect the U.S. side of the border and Americans on the U.S. side, but also to work with President Calderon, because it is in our joint interest that these drug cartels be demolished." She didn't give details. "There hasn't been a coordinated plan," Ms. Ginsburg said. "There haven't been enough resources. And the agencies involved don't always play too well together." She is expected to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee to address the issue on March 25.
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POPSMedical Marijuana Laws is Now Up to the States For those who claim that nothing substantial has changed from the Bush administration to the Obama administration, this significant development will come as a challenge for their sophistry. This is great news, which could potentially help millions of Americans suffering from terminal and debilitating illnesses. Good for Obama.
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POPSU.S. arrests 755 in Mexican drug cartel raids This may hurt a little, but it is definitely not going to stop it. This is likely a small percentage of what is out there. Right now there are a lot of people looking for new connections. And many of them starting to go through withdrawals.
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POPSFDA seizes herbal tea products
Any substance that has any therapeutic effect whatsoever on the human body is considered by the FDA to be a "drug" and must be approved as such requiring the favor of an agency that practically works for Big Pharma. The author rants a little too much but I do understand his point. The FDA is wasting time and effort trying to control a natural substance that does no harm to anyone. However, they should be performing tests and publishing results rather than using law enforcement to shutdown Big Pharma competition. From a scientific standpoint, there is no question that drinking herbal teas helps regulate blood sugar, cinnamon has a similar effect, as do many other herbs. These medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years to support human health. It is only in the last 75 years or so that western medicine has gained power over the industry and surreptitiously declared that all of the medicinal herbs used for thousands of years are now suddenly inert or harmful.
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POPSEmail President Bush To Grant Executive Pardon To Border Agents for drug smuggling. The Washington Times quotes T. J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, as being critical with the timing of the indictment against Aldrete Davila. "Osvaldo Aldrete Davila should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these felonies two years ago," said Mr. Bonner, whose group represents more than 12,000 Border Patrol agents. "This deliberate and unconscionable delay directly resulted in the wrongful incarceration of two innocent law-enforcement officers." According to Drug Enforcement Administration documents obtained by The Times, DEA investigators believed they had sufficient evidence to indict Aldrete Davila in late 2005, but their requests to do so were denied by Mr. Sutton's office.
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POPSBolivian President Says DEA Killed Farmers According to the US government, Bolivia has joined Myanmar and Venezuela as countries that "failed demonstrably" in anti-drugs cooperation. Morales in September expelled US Ambassador Philip Goldberg from Bolivia, charging him with conspiring to overthrow his government.
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POPSFeds want to question Olsen about Heath Ledger The official confirmed a report that Olsen wants a promise of immunity from prosecution before speaking to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Olsen was a close friend of Ledger's, and was the first person called by a masseuse who found the 28-year-old "Dark Knight" actor's lifeless body in his Manhattan apartment.
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