Tag Archives: Drugs & Vice

6 Red States That Are Turning Green at a Rapid Clip

Posted on by

“Oklahoma’s marijuana penalties are among the most severe in America. First-time marijuana possession offenses are punishable by up to one-year incarceration and subsequent offenses are punishable by up to ten years in prison. Selling marijuana is punishable by up to life in prison! But voters are ready for a change. 57% of Oklahomans back amending pot possession penalties to a fine-only offense and 71% back the legalization of the plant for medical purposes. Legislation to legalize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and retail sale of cannabis for all Oklahoma adults is pending in the state Senate. However, Gov. Mary Fallin has stated that she opposes legalizing pot.”

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/6-red-states-are-turning-green-marijuana-rapid-clip?paging=off

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

American Farm Bureau calls for end to federal ban on hemp

Posted on by

“The American Farm Bureau Federation has approved a new policy resolution that urges the repeal of the classification of industrial hemp as a controlled substance.  The effort, led by the Indiana Farm Bureau at the national group’s annual meeting last week in Texas, puts one of the largest and most influential mainstream farm lobbying organizations squarely in the pro-hemp camp and on record opposing ‘the classification of industrial hemp as a controlled substance.’  The Farm Bureau before passed a policy resolution supporting industrial hemp research in 1995.”

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/01/22/3046585/american-farm-bureau-calls-for.html

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

In Breakthrough, Farm Bill Includes Hemp Amendment

Posted on by

“The omnibus federal farm bill approved by Congressional conference committee negotiators this week and destined to be quickly signed into law includes the hemp amendment that was approved by the House last year.  The 10 states that have already passed laws allowing hemp production are California, Colorado, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Hemp bills have been introduced in 11 states this year, including Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, New Jersey (carried over from 2013), New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington (two bills were carried over from 2013) West Virginia, and Wisconsin.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/jan/29/breakthrough_farm_bill_includes_breakthrough

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

Cannabinoid Protects Against Alcohol-Induced Liver Damage

Posted on by

“The administration of the non-psychotropic cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) protects the liver from damage caused by alcohol consumption, according to preclinical data published online in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.  Investigators from China and the US assessed whether cannabidiol administration can protect against alcohol-induced steatosis (excessive fat build up in the liver).  They reported, ‘[C]annabidiol protects mouse liver from acute alcohol-induced steatosis through multiple mechanisms including attenuation of alcohol-mediated oxidative stress … and increasing autophagy (degradation of dysfunctional cells).'”

http://norml.org/news/2014/01/16/non-psychoactive-cannabinoid-protects-against-alcohol-induced-liver-damage

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

Cannabis Has Been Studied More Than Many FDA Approved Drugs

Posted on by

“Opponents of legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes are fond of arguing that the plant must be subjected to the same standards of clinical study and FDA review as conventional medicines.  According to a just-published analysis of some 200 newly FDA-approved medications, few conventional drugs are tested in multiple, large-scale clinical assessing safety and efficacy trials prior to market approval.  By comparison, there exists over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature referencing the cannabis plant and its cannabinoids, nearly half of which were published within the last five years.”

http://www.hightimes.com/read/cannabis-has-been-studied-more-many-fda-approved-pharmaceuticals

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

Don’t just legalize marijuana, free prior offenders

Posted on by

“When Colorado legalized marijuana via its 2012 ballot initiative, it made no stipulation about the fate of those already convicted of marijuana crimes. If you were sitting in prison for selling pot, you’re still there. If you were ever convicted of a felony marijuana charge, it’s still on your record.  The United States is one of only 22 countries that doesn’t guarantee what’s called ‘retroactive ameliorative relief’ in sentencing. This puts us in the company of such bastions of social justice as Pakistan, Oman and South Sudan.  If Germany were to legalize marijuana, on the other hand, those convicted of weed crimes would see their sentences commuted, according to the USF report.”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-legalize-marijuana-free-prior-offenders-20140115,0,3562757.story

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

Drug Dealers Unfazed By Legal Pot: “Nobody Wants To Be On A List”

Posted on by

“Sitting in a vegetarian café near his Denver apartment that has a bathroom covered in graffiti like ‘Urban Farming Is The Future!,’ Mario said he feared being on a medical registry while still in school.  ‘I’m afraid that information could get somehow compromised,’ he said about his fears of his loans being affected by being on a medical registry. ‘The last thing I’d want is to get my federal funding cut off.’  Owners have had to pay for an endless list of essentials, from applying for new licenses, packaging the many pounds of green stuff they grow, and instituting the state’s mandatory radio frequency identification system that tracks every single marijuana plant ‘from seed to sale.'”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/drug-dealers-unfazed-by-legal-pot-in-colorado

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

A drug dog named ‘Guilty’

Posted on by

“The field performance records of drug dogs are often no better—and sometimes worse —than a coin flip. Yet a dog’s alert during a traffic stop can result in a thorough search of your car, allowing police officers to snoop in all of your belongings. It can also give them cause to rip out upholstery and linings, damaging your car. (And in case you’re innocent, good luck getting compensated for it.) Worse, an alert, combined with a few hard-to-prove allegations from a cop about your body language or ‘suspicious’ answers to questions, can result in the seizure and forfeiture of any cash or valuables you happen to be carrying, even if the officer doesn’t actually find a measurable quantity of drugs.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/27/a-drug-dog-named-guilty/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

HSBC paying $2 billion to avoid charges in drug cartel laundering case

Posted on by

“The deferred prosecution agreement was reached in December 2012 and was approved Monday. The settlement was seen as a record amount to resolve charges that the bank failed to stop billions of dollars in drug money from flowing through the bank from Mexico.  Under the terms of the deal, the Justice Department agreed to suspend criminal charges against HSBC and its US subsidiary for five years if the bank agreed to pay the penalty. When announcing the settlement, HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver said: ‘The HSBC of today is a fundamentally different organization from the one that made those mistakes.'”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/140121/hsbc-paying-2-billion-drug-money-laundering-cartel

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet

The Complete Breakdown of How Charlie Shrem Did Nothing Wrong

Posted on by

“Many people in the Bitcoin community were shocked when they heard Charlie Shrem was arrested for allegedly laundering money for drug dealers from the Silk Road, but the moral, and perhaps even the legal, case against him is rather weak. While the US Government will definitely try to make an example out of Charlie, it’s unclear as to whether or not the average person on the street would agree that he should be thrown in jail for decades. After reading through the entire criminal complaint against Charlie Shrem, it seems that he is guilty of nothing more than ordering some pot brownies off the Internet.”

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/01/28/charlie-shrem-did-nothing-wrong/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin
Donate via Installed Wallet