Category: drug-laws / drug-politics
When We Grow is a very informative, 45 minute documentary that explores the facts about cannabis, from the history of cannabis prohibition to industrial hemp and medicinal marijuana, presented in clear and accessible manner. Wonderful for sharing with those who are still in need of education on the matter.
Wow. What superb clip. Perfect for sharing!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
The US is home to 5% of the global population, yet it also has 25% of the world’s prisoners.
Half of the nearly 3 million American prisoners are locked away for non-violent drug offenses (a great majority for pot).
1 out of 30 American men between 20 & 34 are in prison.
It’s 1 out of 9 for African American men in the same age group.
The private prison industry is massive and very powerful politically, and their business is BOOMING.
Definitely watch and share this trailer for a gorgeous looking documentary about ayahuasca shamanism, science and it’s use in treating Westerners afflicted with addictions and severe emotional traumas, as pioneered by the work of two doctors; Dr. Jacques Mabit, who “runs a legendary detox centre deep in the Peruvian jungle”and Dr. Gabor Maté, a lionhearted addiction specialist valiantly trying to establish a similar program in Canada. It is seeking completion funding on KickStarter so if you like the trailer please learn more by watching the Kickstarter video.
Two more big fat nails in the coffin of prohibition.
A Rand study finds less crime near dispensaries, and another recent study found negative correlations between traffic fatalities and legalized medical marijuana.
Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among adults, but not among minors. In addition, legalization is associated with a nearly 9 percent decrease in traffic fatalities, most likely to due to its impact on alcohol consumption. Our estimates provide strong evidence that marijuana and alcohol are substitutes.
Read more about the traffic study at HuffPo.
Wild interview with Krystle Cole, the maker of the very popular Youtube videos about psychedelics on her Neurosoup channel. Krystle lived in the infamous missile silo that manufactured most of the planet’s LSD around the millennium up to the time of the Pickard bust. She shares some very captivating and jaw dropping stories about exotic poly-psychedelic drug and sex debauchery, paranoid snitches and the dark world of megalomaniacal dealers using psychedelics as instruments of torture.
A Must See for anyone interested in the complex and controversial Pickard affair:
(20 minutes)
Vice.com/hamiltons-pharmacopeia
After reading this lovely review by David Jay Brown of Honor Thy Daughter, I’m definitely adding this to my reading list.
Hilarity and truth from stand-up comic Doug Stanhope. On marriage laws, drug laws, markets, justice and “the meaning of liberty”, government, currency competition, and more.
The director of one of California’s non-profit medical cannabis organizations that is being attacked by the Obama administration stuns right-wing FOX pundit when she calls for her community and supporters to register Republican and vote for Ron Paul in the primaries as a PROTEST to what Obama is doing!
If you want to see Obama debate Paul on the wars, the drug war, Wall St., the bailouts, the Patriot Act, habeus corpus, civil liberties, human rights, the Federal Reserve… if you care about any of these issues, then why not VOICE that concern and vote for Ron Paul in the Republican primaries?
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