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MORE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR CANNABIS POSSESSION THAN ALL VIOLENT CRIMES PUT TOGETHER IN THE US LAST YEAR
By John Vibes Source: Waking Times With legal recreational and medical cannabis now available in so many different US states, it is easy to get the impression that the war on cannabis users is over. However, cannabis users still represent … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Drug War, Law, Mass Incarceration, news, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged ACLU, Cannabis, cannabis legalization, drug war, Erik Altieri, law, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Mass Incarceration, NORML, society, Steve Sisolak, Systemic Racism, Uniform Crime Report, violent crimes
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Decriminalizing the Drug War?
Calculating the Damage from a Century of Drug Prohibition By Alfred W. McCoy Source: TomDispatch.com We live in a time of change, when people are questioning old assumptions and seeking new directions. In the ongoing debate over health care, social … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Deep State, Economics, Geopolitics, Health, History, imperialism, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, Alfred W. McCoy, black ops, CIA, drug war, Economics, geopolitics, Harm Reduction, Lucien Conein, Mass Incarceration, Narcotics, Prohibition, Roger Trinquier, The Politics of Heroin, Tom Tripodi, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam
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Saturday Matinee: The Sunshine Makers
A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychadellic set, The Sunshine Makers reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Drug War, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Consciousness, Documentary Film, drug war, Entheogens, LSD, Nicholas Sand, Orange Sunshine, Psychedelics, The Sunshine Makers, Tim Scully
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US Technological Transformations and the Narcotic-Fueled Genocide of American Workers
By James Petras Source: The Unz Review Introduction During his recent visit to New Hampshire on 3/20/18, President Trump declared once again that the US is facing a ‘drug epidemic’. This time he advocated the death penalty for criminal drug … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Big Pharma, Corporate Crime, culture, DEA, Deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drug war, Economics, elites, Employment, FDA, Genocide, Labor, Lobbyists, NAFTA, Oligarchy, Opioid Epidemic, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Plutocracy, Population Control, society
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‘New World Order’ is falling apart
By Wayne Madsen Source: Intrepid Report One of the more welcomed outcomes of the paring back of the U.S. State Department bureaucracy is the elimination of scores of “status quo enthusiasts.” Since the end of World War II, the State … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Revolution, society
Tagged Algeria, Austria, California, Cannabis, Catalonia, CIA, Colorado, DEA, drug war, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, India, marijuana, Mexico, neo-colonialism, New World Order, Nigeria, NWO, Secession, Servia, Somalia, Spain, States' Rights, US Foreign Policy, US State Department, World War II
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Carl Sagan’s Thoughts On The War on Drugs
Since today marks the birthday of the late Carl Sagan, we can remember a lesser-known aspect of his greatness by reading (or re-reading) the following 1969 essay he wrote under the pseudonym “Mr. X” published in 1971 in Lester Grinspoon’s … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Drug War, History, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Cannabis, cannabis legalization, Carl Sagan, drug war, Entheogens, Lester Grinspoon, Marihuana Reconsidered, marijuana, Marijuana Decriminalization, Prohibition
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What Country Is This? Forced Blood Draws, Cavity Searches and Colonoscopies
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Wubbels, Angel Dobbs, Biometrics, Charnesia Corley, civil liberties, David Eckert, drug war, Dystopia, Gerald Dickson, Leila Tarantino, Mary Clayton, police state, Rape By Cop, social control, State Crime, Strip Searches, US government, War on Drugs
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