Even in conservative Mississippi As most had expected, cannabis reform was a big winner on Election Night 2020. While the nation’s leadership remains in flux, the cannabis results have been anything but. In five states — South Dakota, Mississippi, Arizona, Montana,...
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News Roundup 10/1/20
US News Voters in four states will decide if marijuana will become legal. [Link] Julian Assange could end up in the supermax prison in Colorado. [Link] The US will base the massive USS Hershel Williams in a Greek port near the disputed region with Turkey. [Link] The...
You See, The Police Are Not Actually Your Security Force. They Are Your Enemy.
Democrats Scuttle Marijuana Decriminalization Vote Over Fears of Not Being Deferential Enough to Cop Lobbyists A planned House vote on a bill to decriminalize the possession of marijuana was canceled on Thursday under pressure from law enforcement lobbyists and other...
85% — EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT (!!) of People Busted For Pot in D.C. Are Black
Thank God the cops are here to protect us from the riots they caused by constantly treating human beings like garbage. Although marijuana arrests have declined by more than half, African Americans still account for just under 90 percent of those arrested on all...
Making Politics More Like a Free Market
Free-market capitalism is the most successful economic system in history, as it has brought unprecedented prosperity and powered vast improvements in all aspects of human well-being. However, in spite of capitalism’s success, the application of economic ideas to...
Public Letter, Signed By Prosecutors, Judges, and Cops, Demands Congress Expunge All Marijuana Convictions
The organization formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), now known as Law Enforcement Action Partnership, along with the National Black Police Association, and Fair and Just Prosecution have signed onto a revolutionary letter to Congress urging...
‘Serve and Protect’? Eighty Percent of Criminal Charges Are for Misdemeanors
A recent meeting by a North Carolina state government task force underscored that the mission today of American police forces may well be less to “serve and protect” and more to “harass and extract.” “Of North Carolina’s 1.9 million criminal charges, 1.6 million of...
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The Cops Took This Guy's $15,000 Jeep Because His Girlfriend Allegedly Used It for a $25 Marijuana Sale by Jacob Sullum
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