Tag Archives: Drugs & Vice

Congress Needs to Put a Stop to Asset Forfeiture

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“Revenues generated through forfeiture may be spent with virtually no oversight. Funds distributed to local or state agencies via the equitable sharing program are similarly beyond the reach of state or local lawmakers.  Perhaps this lack of accountability explains how funds supposedly reserved for ‘law enforcement purposes’ wind up getting spent on margarita machines, training trips to Hawaii, and chrome accents for Harley Davidson motorcycles.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/congress-needs-to-put-a-stop-to-asset-forfeiture/

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Government Is Addicted to Banning Substances

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“Kratom has no psychoactive effects and no physical dependency – it’s just a harmless plant.  Despite being an overwhelmingly better alternative to opioids, the DEA, FDA, and CDC continue to propagate kratom as dangerous. They’re wrong.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/government-is-addicted-to-banning-harmless-substances/

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In Duterte’s anti-drug pogrom, police and cameras tell different stories

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“Chilling surveillance footage of a drug-war operation in Manila raises fresh doubts about police actions in President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal anti-narcotics campaign. Reuters obtained the footage, which shows the deadly operation from start to finish.”

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippines-drugs-surveillance/

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With Gun and Medical Marijuana Registries, Hawaii Starts Disarming Patients

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“Hawaii is one of 29 states that allow medical use of marijuana, but it is the only state that requires registration of all firearms. If you are familiar with the criteria that bar people from owning guns under federal law, you can probably surmise what the conjunction of these two facts means for patients who use cannabis as a medicine, which Hawaii allows them to do only if they register with the state. Some of them recently received a letter from Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard, instructing them to turn in their guns.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/29/hawaii-which-requires-registration-of-al

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Tennessee Judge Jailing People For Smoking Cigarettes

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“Drug courts are a very blunt tool with which to address drug dependency. They become even more questionable when used as social engineering to punish people who aren’t committing any crime other than a social faux pas by smoking.”

Read more: https://www.alternet.org/drugs/jailed-smoking-cigarettes-tennessee-judge-abuse-drug-court-system

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U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean

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“Coast Guard officials say they can do this because the drug smugglers aren’t under arrest until they reach U.S. shores, but some of the worst cases are drawing criticism even from Coast Guard officials.  Many families, in fact, believe that their loved ones — husbands, fathers, sons — had disappeared.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/11/28/u-s-coast-guard-operating-secret-floating-prisons-pacific-ocean/900462001/

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Alfred McCoy: The Future of the American Empire

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“Alfred McCoy was a young rebel academic who waded into the war zone in Southeast Asia to investigate the relationship between the CIA, crime syndicates, and local drug lords. The result, which the Agency tried unsuccessfully to suppress, was his classic The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. In the 45 years since, McCoy has consistently probed the underside of American global power, analyzing how the United States uses covert interventions, local proxies, torture, and worldwide surveillance to maintain its global empire.”

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/alfred-mccoy-the-future-of-the-american-empire/

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Pennsylvania Cops Raid Elderly Couple for Marijuana Plants That Weren’t

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“Edward Cramer returned home in the midst of the raid, only to be met by leveled police guns, removed from his car, arrested, and placed in the police car with his wife for the next two hours. According to the lawsuit, Cramer repeatedly asked to show police that the plants were hibiscus, with the flowers clearly in bloom, to no avail.”

Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2017/nov/17/pa_cops_abuse_elderly_couple_over_hibiscus

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Georgia high schoolers win $3M settlement over fruitless drug sweep

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“Each Worth County High School student will receive between $1,000 and $6,000, but students who attorneys say suffered more invasive violations will receive higher amounts.  Hobby’s attorney, Raleigh Rollins, said the settlement will be paid through the county’s insurance policy rather than directly from public funds.”

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/11/15/Ga-high-school-students-win-3-million-settlement-after-invasive-drug-search/8931510724847/

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Cop Arrested for Tampering With Breathalyzers In 20,000 DWI Cases

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“The state police have insisted the part of the calibration process that Dennis skipped is ‘legally required but not scientifically necessary.’  However, legal experts have voiced concerns about how important every part of the calibration process is, saying that these measures are ‘legally required’ for good reason. Just a small percentage point on a breathalyzer could mean the difference between freedom and imprisonment.”

Read more: https://steemit.com/news/@johnvibes/20-000-dwi-cases-may-be-thrown-out-after-cop-arrested-for-tampering-with-breathalyzers

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