Tag Archives: Drugs & Vice

U.S. won’t stop Native Americans from growing, selling pot on their lands

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“Opening the door for what could be a lucrative and controversial new industry on some Native American reservations, the Justice Department on Thursday will tell U.S. attorneys to not prevent tribes from growing or selling marijuana on the sovereign lands, even in states that ban the practice.  The new guidance, released in a memorandum, will be implemented on a case-by-case basis and tribes must still follow federal guidelines, said Timothy Purdon, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Subcommittee on Native American Issues.”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-marijuana-indians-20141211-story.html

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Taxing Cannabis Consumers Into the Black Market, Waiting for Medicine

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“High Alert Investment Management is pleased to bring you this brief summary of some of the week’s top stories from the burgeoning worldwide cannabis legalization and decriminalization trend. Savvy investors and cannabis industry insiders already know this sector is one to be keeping a close eye on, and at High Alert, we’ve been watching keenly and covering it at The Daily Bell since late 2013. Many casual observers will also be interested in following a trend that is already strongly affecting the state of liberty, economics and health care around the world.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/trends-and-sector-reports/35911/Cannabis-Trends-Report-Taxing-Consumers-Into-the-Black-Market-Waiting-for-Medicine/

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Online Drug Dealers Are Now Accepting Darkcoin

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“Over the last month, two of the dark web markets selling an anonymous, mail-order catalog of narcotics and other contraband have begun supporting darkcoin transactions. On a site called Nucleus, visitors can now use darkcoin to buy LSD, MDMA, and marijuana. On the competing market Diabolus, dealers accept it for cocaine, synthetic stimulants like ethylone and alpha-PVP, and even counterfeit Euros. Those two markets still represent only a tiny fraction of the growing dark web drug economy—most of which uses bitcoin exclusively. But darkcoin’s entrance could signal a new means of transaction in that underground industry, and one that’s far harder for law enforcement to trace.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/darkcoin-and-online-drug-dealers/

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Feds Seize Silk Road 2 in Major Dark Web Drug Bust

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“On Thursday international law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and Europol took down the Silk Road 2 and arrested its alleged operator 26-year-old Blake Benthall in San Francisco. The criminal complaint against Benthall outlines how the Silk Road 2’s staff was infiltrated by at least one undercover law enforcement agent even before the site went online in November of last year. In May of this year, the FBI somehow pinpointed the foreign server that ran the Silk Road 2 despite its use of the anonymity software Tor to protect its location, and obtained records from the server’s hosting provider identifying Benthall.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/feds-seize-silk-road-2/

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Ayahuasca: Could it be the next medicinal marijuana?

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“Imagine discovering a plant that has the potential to help alleviate post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts and paralyzing anxiety. That’s what some believe ayahuasca can do, and this psychedelic drink is attracting more and more tourists to the Amazon.
If you Google ‘ayahuasca,’ you’ll find a litany of stories about Hollywood celebrities espousing its benefits, as well as the dangers of this relatively unstudied substance that triggers hallucinations. On this Sunday’s episode of ‘This Is Life,’ Lisa Ling goes inside an ayahuasca ceremony in Peru and talks to the men and women who are drinking this potent brew in hopes that it will alleviate their mental and emotional traumas.”

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/health/ayahuasca-medicine-six-things/

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Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs

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“Is the War on Drugs doing more harm than good? In a bold talk, drug policy reformist Ethan Nadelmann makes an impassioned plea to end the “backward, heartless, disastrous” movement to stamp out the drug trade. He gives two big reasons we should focus on intelligent regulation instead.”

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The Mass Shooting in Mexico

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“The US government must finally face up to its responsibility to suspend the Merida Initiative’s security aid to Mexican forces that murder their own youth.”

http://truth-out.org/news/item/27280-the-mass-shooting-in-mexico

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New N.C. GOP congressman endorses going to war with Mexico

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“[..] we need to utilize the National Guard as much as we can. But, I will tell you If you have foreigners who are sneaking in with drug cartels to me that is a national threat and if we got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point, I don’t have a problem with that either. So yea, whatever you need to do. [..] we did it before, if we need to do it again, I don’t have a qualm about it.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/18/1330722/-Republican-congressional-candidate-endorses-going-to-war-with-Mexico-over-undocumented-immigrants

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Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

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“Using a law designed to catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that they have committed serious crimes. The government can take the money without ever filing a criminal complaint, and the owners are left to prove they are innocent.  Many give up.  The I.R.S. is one of several federal agencies that pursue such cases and then refer them to the Justice Department. The Justice Department does not track the total number of cases pursued, the amount of money seized or how many of the cases were related to other crimes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/law-lets-irs-seize-accounts-on-suspicion-no-crime-required.html?_r=0

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Patriot Act ‘sneak-and-peek’ now overwhelmingly used in drug cases

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“Since the Patriot Act passed, the number of of sneak-and-peeks each year has grown from about 16 per year to over 11,000 in 2013. Meanwhile, not only have the number of sneak-and-peek investigations unrelated to terrorism increased on a massive scale, the percentage of sneak-and-peeks that have anything to do with terrorism continues to drop. In other words, sneak-and-peek is increasingly ubiquitous while the justification for granting the government this power in the first place — terrorism — is not only irrelevant to the tactic’s increasing pervasiveness, it gets more irrelevant every year.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations/

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