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Police respond to Brown: "Don't criminalise young people who are experimenting"

In a response to Gordon Brown's expected u-turn on the classification of cannabis... more

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Marijuana arrest crusade in New York City: racial bias in police policy 1997-2007

What major city in America has some of the most aggressively enforced cannabis laws... more

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Brown says message must be sent on cannabis

Gordon Brown announced that the government needs to send a message that cannabis is... more

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Welcome to Jack Herer's home on the web

I read the book in the early 90's from cover to cover. It was full of facts I... more

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The 420 Channel - Promo

The 420 Channel will soon be the cable television branch of The 420 Network, a new... more

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The 420 Network - Promo

This is a promo for a brand new multi-media internet/television/satellite radio... more

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Getting baked before shooting AKs at the Taliban: a bad idea

Smoking weed can improve your performance in all sorts of activities - from playing... more

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Police issue zero tickets as 10k university students celebrate pot smoke-out

University of Colorado students get high, with a little help from their friends...... more

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School offers courses to would-be marijuana entrepreneurs

Oaksterdam University in Oakland, California teaches the ins and outs of cannabis... more

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Ron Paul introduces federal medicinal marijuana protection act

Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5842, the “Medical Marijuana... more

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may 3 rd show your support in a town near you!

I just think people should speak out about there true feelings

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Once again the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has been caught using taxpayer money to influence politics. I urge you to amend federal law to prohibit the Drug Czar and his deputies from using taxpayer money to lobby or campaign. A recent investigation by the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) used taxpayer money to boost support for Republican candidates in 2006. U.S. Drug Czar John Walters and his deputies traveled to almost twenty events with vulnerable Republican members of Congress in the months prior to the election. The taxpayer-financed trips were orchestrated by President Bush's political advisors and often combined with the announcement of federal grants or actions that benefited the districts of the Republican members. A November 20, 2006, memo from Sara Taylor, the former White House Director of Political Affairs, summarizes the travel Drug Czar John Walters took at her request. An agency e-mail sent the following day describes how Karl Rove commended his agency (and three cabinet departments Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture) for "going above and beyond the call of duty" in making "surrogate appearances" at locations the e-mail described as "the god awful places we sent them." That e-mail, as well as e-mails that followed, show that ONDCP officials were proud of the commendation they received from Mr. Rove and the political travel they took using taxpayer dollars. According to ONDCP's liaison to the White House, Douglas Simon, "Our hard work...in preparing the Director and Deputies for their trips and events" allowed them to travel "thousands of miles to attend numerous events all across the country." The Drug Czar and his staff also routinely use taxpayer money to campaign against proposed state laws they personally don't like. During the 2002 election, for instance, ONDCP's campaigning on a Nevada ballot initiative was so intense that the state's Attorney General complained in a letter to the Nevada Secretary of State that, "it is unfortunate that a representative of the federal government substantially intervened in a matter that was clearly a State of Nevada issue. The excessive federal intervention that was exhibited in this instance is particularly disturbing because it sought to influence the outcome of a Nevada election." More recently, ONDCP officials traveled to New Mexico four times in 12 months at taxpayer expense to lobby state legislators to oppose a proposed medical marijuana bill. They conducted similar lobbying trips to other states. In 2006 Congress included a provision in the ONDCP Reauthorization Act that prohibits ONDCP from using the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to support or oppose legislation, regulations, ballot measures or candidates. I urge you to expand this ban to prohibit ONDCP officials from using any taxpayer money to lobby or campaign.

Sincerely,

Drug Policy Alliance Once again the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has been caught... more