USA Today came out with an editorial opposing civil asset forfeiture. When police play bounty hunter: Our view
Civil asset forfeiture is government at its absolute worst — intimidating helpless citizens for its own benefit. It needs to go away.
Wow. Pretty strong statement. Excellent work.
USA Today also prints an opposing view. On this issue, it was from, no surprise, someone who represents a law enforcement association: Asset forfeiture deters criminals: Opposing view by John W. Thompson, interim executive director of the National Sheriffs’ Association.
Sheriffs and police chiefs across the country have developed asset forfeiture programs that promote fairness, protect property owners’ rights, meet legal requirements and successfully target criminal activities. Sheriffs and chiefs often stress seizing drugs over assets, as removing illegal drugs from American streets is the critical priority.
Yeah, right. You can say it, but that doesn’t actually, you know, make it… true.
The problem with asset forfeiture is that poor people don’t have much the police want to confiscate which has them targeting people that may have the funds to fight them,and even if failing at that to help support advocacy groups working on ending the policy.
The same rules of expenditure of funds from grants applies to seized funds,,it must be spent on more drug war,,although someone slipped a Margarita machine into the “approved” purchase list for one law enforcement agency.
District Attorneys are supposed to “oversee” funds to make sure they are used in accordance with DEA/DOJ regs,,,that is why they are so vocal on keeping marijuana possession an arrest offense.
Grassley in the Chair and the “seizure queen” as the AG does sound a lot like the Dark Ages are returning.
the police think they can scare most people sufficiently to deter criminals from crime. it just never seems to work, no matter how many innocent folks are thrown in jail or executed.
The opposing view is a textbook example of “truthiness.”
Yes and a master spin doctor can make the cops view sound convincing to the uninitiated.
LEO sales and marketing department.
What took them so long?
Asset forfeiture has been with us for centuries, on and off at least, and only now do the properly recognized entertainers, talking heads and news media focus on Americans being robbed in broad daylight by the cops? The banks were lightweights in the crime business. The media focused on them right away. But not the government.
The NSA overreach, a militarized police force in the midst of a marijuana revolution, the Ferguson police shootings, all seem to have triangulated to make asset forfeiture the government crime topic du jour.
Banksters had nothing on the government in terms of efficiency, though. Banksters didn’t use guns. The police do. That makes it not just asset forfeiture or theft, but armed robbery. Someone will need to tack gun charges onto the government’s criminal indictment.
Public trust is compromised when an individual does not have to be found guilty of anything to be relieved of his belongings and money.
That makes police just as dangerous to an individual as the robber down the street. And just as popular. With a highly conservative figure of 41% of Americans having tried marijuana, and medical patients being hunted by local prohibition radicals and profiteers for traffic offenses of the blood, the police are easily perceived as objects of fear and revulsion, not icons of public respect and trust.
I’ve never really understood how they get around the 5th Amendment when they “seize” property without a conviction. It seems pretty clear to me, not really any room for interpretation, even by judges and lawyers.
yeah… that’s a head twister for sure.
DavGreg wrote on a WAPO article:
I never realized that exact same wording appears in TWO amendments! That should make it doubly clear.
Nice to know I’m not the only one confused by the court’s interpretations.
When things go wrong, it is very tempting to call the cops. When you do, things get worse, not better. Never, never, never call the cops. No matter what.
Right on the money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc
I have never seen a situation so dismal
that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.
— Brendan Behan (1923-1964)
I don’t know of anyone who can make a dollar go further than policemen and dry agents. By frugality, after a year in the service, they acquire automobiles and diamonds.
— Rev. Marna S. Poulson,
superintendent of the New Jersey Anti-Saloon League, in a May 1925 address to a prohibition rally in Atlantic City, as reported in the New York Times and the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings of 1926 on National Prohibition.
The difference between a policy and a crusade is that
a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade
is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.
— Thomas Sowell
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
[The more corrupt a republic,
the more laws.] — Tacitus, Annals III 27
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion …
as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and
imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken, 1918
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance
when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
[Who will police the police?] — Latin proverb
Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they hold the weak and delicate who might be caught in their meshes, but are torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
— Anacharsis (f.c. 600 BC), in Plutarch’s “Solon”
Very nice selection. We need a Solon (or many Solons) in our Republic because we’ve been ruled by Draco for far too long.
John W. Thompson says;
“Sheriffs and police chiefs across the country have developed asset forfeiture programs that promote fairness, protect property owners’ rights, meet legal requirements and successfully target criminal activities.”
Wrong. In the interest of fairness and reasonable doses of sanity;
1). Stop accusing property of crimes. Houses, cars, land, money, etc. do not commit crimes. Stop making the owners of property prove their inanimate objects are innocent (jeez, how ridiculous it is to even point this out).
2). Seize no property based on mere suspicion. Do not seize money found in an automobile just because its there. There are no laws restricting someone from having money on their person while operating a motor vehicle. Or do this: setup up money checkpoints. Take every dime and every object of worth from every car stopped at the checkpoint (or just take every car stopped, stranding the owners by the side of the road). See how long your activity is deemed “fair” by those you’re tasked to protect and serve.
3). Just stop all of it. Current asset forfeiture activities have already turned law enforcers into criminals. Do not pretend this isn’t true.
…see I was under the impression that criminals took things from other people for personal profit.
…wait
Federal Officials Issue New Guidance for Highway Seizures
http://tinyurl.com/p6k38go
“Officials with the White House’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program have issued new guidance for highway police in a bid to curb questionable civil asset forfeiture seizures of cash and property from drivers.”
This fixes nothing. I am going to invoke Tony Aroma here:
“I’ve never really understood how they get around the 5th Amendment when they “seize†property without a conviction. It seems pretty clear to me, not really any room for interpretation, even by judges and lawyers.
“nor shall any person … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”
I guess its nice to know that taking peoples property has standards. I have heard it said there is honor amongst thieves.
Isn’t it comforting to know that the police have to be “reminded” to obey the law and respect citizens’ rights?
And thanks for the invocation.
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It’s a civil action filed against the property. Property gots no civil rights.
For more information see:
United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins (520 F.3d 976)
United States of America v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, 241 U.S. 265 (1916)
If you’re a masochist you can get a better understanding from reading the
Civil Asset Forfeiture Manual
When they busted me and confiscated my grow eaquipment,,then dropped the charges I asked the county judge where the “due process” wa in the seizure of my property and she said her telling me I wouldn’t be getting them back was due process.
Now topping the news is that the police are justified to shoot unarmed persons even though they have non-lethal methods for dealing with a person they can just shoot you for looking scary.
This may stir the pot even more than the government expects.
When you buy your target embossed t-shirts do not buy the plain silk screened type,,get the glow in the dark ones.
OT, but does anybody know how this would work?
Colorado health officials recommend grants to 8 marijuana studies
Would they seek approval from the DEA, NIDA, etc.? Would they hope to get their medicine from the only (federally) legal source? If so, that would pretty much end their research program before it got started.
Assuming they are at least somewhat aware of the reality of doing medical mj research, it sounds like they want to bypass (ignore) the feds completely, which would be a real slap in the face to the DEA. And I’d also assume that any research not approved by the DEA would not be considered for future rescheduling petitions (not that they actually consider ANY relevant research).
Seriously, how can the Feds stay relevant in this field when the entire (drug war) nature of the government has been to show danger and toxicity to cannabis so as to justify its schedule 1 status?
The federal system for the study of this plant is broken. How else will one find truth without bypassing the problem?
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One of the my most favorite parts of the ongoing process of re-legalization is getting to watch the prohibitionists getting marginalized to irrelevancy.
There are lots and lots and lots of people who think they’re friggin’ Kreskin and will bore you to tears spelling out a precise agenda of the future. But the fact of the matter is that we’re in uncharted territory and nobody knows exactly what the results will be from a government sponsoring legitimate scientific research. Just the idea is one very rare breed of animal. Very weird indeed.
Ooops, I forgot about Dr. Donald Abrams’ dog and pony show at the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. Based on that I feel that we can safely presume that the powers that be will just ignore the results. /snark/
But enough jocularity, I could entertain the educated speculation that the DEA might get a little more scrutiny if they dismiss a State sponsored study rather than research scientists from Massachusetts or Arizona. Those scientists are not household names. But even 69.4% of the sycophants of prohibition have heard of Colorado.
The CBD studies shouldn’t be much of a problem since CBD has been authorized by the DEA for human consumption for purposes of research.
Ironically, their mistreatment of the devil weed is undermining their whole classification system in the long run.
The next UN summit on drugs is coming up fast, and alternatives to the US model are emerging. Hell, they’re emerging in the US itself. If too many dominoes fall, the whole system is called into question.
Eventually we must ask: what purpose is drug scheduling supposed to serve, and does a total prohibition ever serve a legitimate public interest?
Drug scheduling as we know it, as established during the Nixon administration, IS our framework for prohibition.
As far as I’ve heard the 1999 I.O.M. report is still sitting in File #13 at the H.H.S. awaiting approval for the F.D.A. to officially test it.
So this will proably go in the same File, along with the 20,000 other studies resulting in positive results. The opposite of what NIDA has spent billions searching.
Possibly the most-studied substance on the planet
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1900
Granny Storm Crow’s MMJ Reference List
– pdf January 2013 http://tinyurl.com/k436at2
Safe Access (ASA) .pdf
The political repression of the scientific study of cannabis.
Top 10 Cannabis Studies the Government Wished it Had Never Funded
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/570/
OT… but w/ a hat tip to Pete and y’all:
my friend Sarah http://tinyurl.com/o2sllhl
Another type of police confiscation tactic that likens itself to civil asset forfeiture involves criminal fines for petty offenses, which would include any fine for drug possession:
Speed traps, inadequate metered parking, excessive traffic fines, all are designed to pick people’s pockets. Social problems that emerge from policing through theft, like those in Ferguson, cost society far more than is gained monetarily by America’s corrupt bureaucrats and courts.
From what I read in the transcript the prosecutor was defending the cop to the grand jury so there wouldn’t be a trial.
Nobody was trying to gain an indictment,,where was the equal protection under the law for Michael,,where was a prosecutor trying to punish the killer,,nobody talked for Michael.
It was an unspoken acceptance by the grand jury that Michael was a big black kid that was scary looking therefore the cop had the right to ignore his mace and pull his gun instead…sickening.
The grand jury non-indictment was a foregone conclusion. There is no justice in the US.
Getting rid of grand juries has been an idea tossed around by the legal profession for decades. The grand jury is a common way for prosecutors to bypass evidentiary hearings, so prosecutors like it and keep it. An evidentiary hearing would have produced a different result in the Ferguson case.
In Ferguson, however, something other than what most people think of as a grand jury was used, since what was done isn’t supposed to happen in a grand jury proceeding, such as questioning the person being indicted.
I was questioned by a grand jury once and they were trying to indict me,,,in a grand jury if they ask you a question and you take the fifth amendment they can lock you up until you answer it,,I grilled with an attorney all night before the hearing so I would know how to answer the questions correctly so I was worthless as a witness,,,such as “Did you know Mr Smith? I would answer was “it was the name the police told me”,,etc.
Here is Scalia on the topic of grand juries:
Here is what happened instead:
A local attorney was on a local radio talk show, yesterday, apparently the grand jury is seldom used in WA State, there are two one in Seattle and one in Spokane but even those are not used very often. He said the cliche “any prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich” is not a cliche it is true, and that this prosecutor didn’t want an indictment and therefore didn’t get one. He questioned a whole lot of what was done in that grand jury proceeding. This attorney used to be a prosecutor, now he’s a defense attorney.
Fair Trial?
St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Raising Funds for Darren Wilson!
…But wait — There’s more!
Alongside the two fundraisers set up by Ferguson police and county officials, miscellaneous white people, and the Ku Klux Klan to reward Officer Darren Wilson for ridding the streets of the unarmed “typical low-IQ Negro†Michael Brown, there have been numerous rallies in support of this pure, innocent police officer who went through the traumatic experience of taking a human life.
In addition to the rallies, there were t-shirt sales. A t-shirt reading “I Support Darren Wilson†was made available through Teesping for those who want to proudly proclaim their white pride in a manner that doesn’t involve leaving so many racist comments on a fundraiser that the company hosting it had to take action.
Anonymous Exposes Cop as Member of KKK
Behind Letter Threatening to Kill Ferguson Protesters
One wonders how many other police officers are current or past members of the KKK. How does a police officer/KKK member treat blacks after arresting them?
More questions are surfacing about Officer Darren Wilson.
Ferguson Police Dress Code.jpg
Did Marijuana Kill Michael Brown?
Jacob Sullum|Nov. 25, 2014
Daily marijuana users have been known to register 12 nanograms or more when they get up in the morning, and they may even perform competently on driving tests at that level.
Scientist: Trayvon Martin’s Marijuana Use
Had Nothing to Do with the Night He Died
Mr. Martin could not have been intoxicated with marijuana at the time of the shooting; the amount of THC found in his system was too low for it to have had any meaningful effect on him. In fact, his THC levels were significantly lower than the sober, baseline levels of about 14 nanograms per milliliter of many of my patients, who are daily users.
Muhammad Ali Speech on Vietnam
Cant give a link, but on the anonymous site you linked to is the deeply troubling story of chicago police chief jon burge. Despite being convicted for torturing over 100 black men he served just 4 years in jail and still collects his police pension of 4k a month. Police unions are holding us all hostage.
BBC News – Ferguson: Did prosecutors focus unduly on marijuana? http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-30216293 …
Alcohol is Far More Deadly than Cannabis, Former UK Minister Says http://www.cannabisculture.com/node/47107
I believe Robert Leone is still locked up. http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/robert-leone/
Hope to be wrong. This man deserves justice!
It just goes on getting worse. Happy thanksgiving!
That’s brutal. PA Troopers are big. Used to be 6′ min height. What kind of do no harm are these medical sheep practicing in the E.R. and Prison? Disgusting how crooked and psychotic the system has become. Not that I’ve ever seen actual justice. Especially for lower income citizens. Is this their response to racism and inequality? No discrimination in who they terrorize, torture or murder. Domestic violence for cops is double nat avg. Are they checked for steroids? Popping go go pills like the Military they dress up like. Confiscated crack? Seems like some just take their jobs way way too fucking seriously. If it causes that much Hate it can’t be healthy. Protect and Serve the Profits. The Prisons. Protected by the Union Label.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
[Who will police the police?] — Latin proverb
Suicide by Cops
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3cTb0ICQAA7CgZ.jpg
Judges Caging Kids for Cash 2.17.09
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/topic/1518
PA Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails
An unprecedented case of judicial corruption is unfolding in Pennsylvania
The US Gulag Prison System
At the same time, the United States blasts China for the use of prison slave labor, engaging in the same practice itself. Prison labor is a pot of gold. No strikes, union organizing, health benefits, unemployment insurance or workers’ compensation to pay.
History of Mandatory Minimums
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/526
Slavery: Another Fine Product Still Made in the USA!
http://endingcannabisprohibition.yuku.com/sreply/519
Video Captures EXACTLY How Cops Treat Black People
https://www.facebook.com/NJWEEDMAN/posts/893109494056590
“There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.”
– Kurt Huber,
The head of “White Rose”,
killed by the Nazis in 1943.
They didn’t even file an accident report! I guess he’s still in stir.
Happy Thanksgiving, couchmates.
Amidst all of the chaos, we really do have a lot to be thankful for.
Especially Allan. He got legal weed and fast internet. 😉
Seriously, a wonderful holiday, this thankful one (you know, the day before the National festival of acquisition and gluttony?)
If you are traveling, travel safely . Me? I won’t be going any farther than the kitchen today.
Enjoy your families.
happy thanksgiving to my brothers and sisters on the divan. thanks to the kindness of my neighbors i am promised a good stuffing. hope you all enjoy your turkey.
OMG….I almost forgot…it’s not too late, is it?
Here it is, your annual WKRP Turkey Drop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCGURWzjwE
Happy Thanksgiving! I am donating my wishbone to the couch to try to alleviate the arguments over who gets the wishbone.
a bit OT:
Silk Road, Online Freedom, and Why the Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht Should Worry Us All http://youtu.be/u637tAVBdro
Is this an example of Parallel Construction in the works?
Is privacy now a criminal act?
Our Thanksgiving Tradition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ
Happy Danksgiving all…
Remember Sue Sisley?
Fired UA marijuana researcher secures Colorado grant
http://tinyurl.com/msfatge
“Sisley said that Colorado’s decision to fund her marijuana study allows her to pursue the study even without an Arizona university lab.”
“That’s the beauty of this grant,” Sisley said in an e-mail. “The Colorado health department believed in the quality of this research regardless of whether I was aligned with an Arizona university or not.”
The actions by the DEA/DOJ towards these studies will let us know if they intend to continue trying to ban marijuana,,they cannot afford to allow the research to continue without control and the final word on all research,,as they have using U of M ditchweed and those showed that even smoked ditchweed can relieve neuropathic pain but since they controlled the research they simply reported having issues with the research,,,since they ran the show who was going to take them to court over it?
But if they claim exception to a study run by CO the state will take them to court if the research shows proof positive that marijuana helps PTSD victims. Which it will and they know it.
A federal court case on marijuana will soon challenge the classification of marijuana as Schedule I:
I don’t know if it is for political reasons or not but the ruling will not be published until after New Years for some reason,,from the evidence given in the hearing anything but a decision to dismiss will have to be politically motivated and would have nothing to do with “justice”.
I wish they had went after “accepted medical” use by using the fact that over 80% of Americans approve marijuana use under a doctors care,,,that is an accepted medical use.
Its a crooked system designed to perpetuate profits on prohibition. I don’t see how this will be any different than previous proofs of medicinal value. As long as the HHS refuses to have it tested, it remains as it is. The difference is legalizers trying to use logic and truth against lies and big bucks in profits at stake if truth prevails.
MARIJUANA AND MEDICINE
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6376
Assessing the Science Base
Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and
John A. Benson, Jr., Editors
Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C.
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base Released: April 7, 2003
http://iom.edu/Reports/2003/Marijuana-and-Medicine-Assessing-the-Science-Base.aspx
California Case Could Be A Pivotal Moment In Ending The War On Marijuana – http://www.mintpressnews.com/california-case-pivotal-moment-ending-war-marijuana/199225/ *blogplay.com*
Gonzales v. Raich (previously Ashcroft v. Raich), 545 U.S. 1 (2005), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court ruling that under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, the United States Congress may criminalize the production and use of home-grown cannabis even where states approve its use for …
Gonzales v. Raich – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
The venerable Wall Street Journal is reporting that U.S. Marshalls in disguise have joined with Mexican Marines to take part in raids against cartel members:
U.S. personnel claim they have permission from “high levels of the Mexican government†to participate. If the government of Mexico did give their permission, it’s interesting they’re allowing U.S. Marshals to get involved, but not the DEA. Perhaps Mexico doesn’t have any faith in the DEA. No surprise there. No one else has any faith in the prohibitionists, either.
i have faith that the prohibs won’t be able to pull their heads out of their asses long enough to smell the coffee, let alone see the truth about cannabis or any other “drug”.
Meanwhile the Mexican legislature has moved closer to the legalization of marijuana use and production because they will not want to lose the entire market because they hesitated,,,about the time any two countries setup a market for marijuana between them,,,that will be go fishing or cut bait day.
ADDENDUM:
Mexican President Peña Nieto is a stinker, and a U.S. puppet who wants to do a Ronald Reagan economic trip on Mexico against the wishes of Mexican citizens. He’s being given all kinds of discretion by the U.S. to violate Mexican citizens human rights as he wishes:
Big Petroleum appears to be behind much of President Nieto’s repressive tactics. Stirring up the narcotrafficking situation may be something designed to distract people from some ruthless economic efforts to privatize Mexico’s oil reserves and convert Mexico to a Walmart economy.
I remember a report that one of the cartels had “tapped” into an oil pipeline and was selling their own oil back to them,,that is almost as good as the drilling company that drilled into the Texaco Salt Water caverns(storage facility) under Houston and sold oil back to them for 15 years.
i don’t know how much money the state of calif. has spent on cannabis research, but i do know UCSD is where cannabis as medicine is being researhed for the state: http://tinyurl.com/o85fxsm here is the official site: http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/
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The CMCR was commissioned and funded in 1999 when Gray Davis was the Governor of California. I can’t find it now but I specifically recall reading that Gov. Davis said that the CMCR would prove once and for all that cannabis isn’t medicine. I think it’s going to take a monumental event to get the politicians to realize that scientists that qualify to be on a so called “blue ribbon” panel of experts do not deliver results to order like RAND or The Professor. Perhaps it was just wishful thinking on the part of Gov. Davis because the authorizing legislation was introduced to the California Legislature by John Vasconcellos so it’s hard for me to be jaded and cynical about that law . I suppose that it’s possible that Mr. Vasconcellos wasn’t 420 friendly in 1999 as that was before I started following the issue closely.
Would someone please ‘splain to me why the heck anyone would name their child “Gray”?!?
PS within the last week I called the CMCR Dr. Donald Abrams dog and pony show in error. While he’s certainly been actively involved it appears that he isn’t in charge.
I post links to several CMCR completed studies,,the one we will never see is the driving while high research,,been waiting a long time for that report to be typed up.
http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:impact-of-repeated-cannabis-treatments-on-driving-abilities&catid=41:research-studies&Itemid=135
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Researcher: “It was absolutely mind boggling. He got the simulator up to level 32 on the first try! For cryin’ out loud we didn’t even know there was more than one level, much less 128! Now we can’t get him out of the damn thing and it’s going viral on the Internet! Any suggestions? …and don’t say Cheetos!”
here is a link about medical herb: http://tinyurl.com/qdgus5g
Vienna, Nov 29th – The Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has, just this morning, at their party conference, voted in favor of the decriminalization of cannabis.
Austria is ruled by a grand coalition between the two largest parties, the SPÖ (52 seats) and ÖVP (47 seats), with the SPÖ’s Werner Faymann as Chancellor.
SPOe-Delegierte-stimmen-ueber-Antraege
How to Fight Civil Forfeiture
http://tinyurl.com/pksdcnd
Attorney Scott Bullock heads up the Institute for Justice (IJ) initiative against civil forfeiture. In September, he told reason about IJ’s plans to push back against the overuse of laws that allow unfair confiscation of property by law enforcement.
“It is very difficult to change civil forfeiture laws legislatively due to the power of law enforcement lobbies.”
Why are law enforcement lobbies even allowed? It does not seem right.
“We don’t make the laws, we just work against you changing them.”
…and use your hard-earned tax dollars in the form of ONDCP ‘grants’ to accomplish that.
And what happens when that is challenged? Oregon re-legalizing is what happens. ‘Go, thou, and do likewise.’
yeah, if we had known that Linda was being paid w/ our tax dollars – that’s an outrage!
I’ve come to realize a decade and a half on dial-up has left me in purgatory far too long. My goodness, the things that are out there/here… like this:
http://tinyurl.com/nbz56ta
That’s too much fun…
Me ras, too funny, thanks for sharing Allen!
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Alright, enough tomfoolery. Which one of you people abducted and either brainwashed or cloned The Professor?” Give yourself a well deserved pat on the back.
So what’s your plan for The Lapdog AKA Kev-Kev? Brainwashing requires that the target have a brain to be washed.
Brain Surgeon claims Kevin Sabet is brain dead:
‘We have medical records for every minute Kevin Sabet has spent debating drug policy, and none of them show any indication of brain activity. In other words, as far as neuroscience can say, there is absolutely nothing happening inside his head.”
Link
We all knew DEA agents were criminals at heart, here’s proof we were correct:
From PoliceMisconduct.net:
An article about a United Nations report (pdf here 15 pages) citing torture violations committed by the United States includes a few other jabs at U.S. domestic policies, including the use of discriminatory policing, presumably stop-and-frisks for marijuana and other drugs:
It’s a feeble jab in that the wording could have been more specific, but then the UN committee might risk offending the almighty UNODCP which appears to love torture, military engagements abroad, confinement, juvenile abuse in the criminal justice system, and stereotypes of illegal immigrants, as long as all of it is confined to the drug war.
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I don’t think that I would have ever guessed that the DC Council would be the first legislative body to codify a regulated retail supply chain for cannabis. Don’t forget that there wasn’t any commerce in I-71 which voters approved 69.5-30.5% on Election Day.
D.C. Council Moves Ahead With Marijuana Legalization In The Nation’s Capital
it makes me think about Droop Dog’s “legalization isn’t in our vocabulary” statement… now it be knocking on ONDCP’s front door. 🙂
even if pot is legal the alcohol loving
police state must be able to determine if there is any way to prosecute the law abiding: http://tinyurl.com/o7qvsg2
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Do you have any idea how long they’ve been playing the “we don’t have a pot breathalyzer” card and how effective that argument is in the mind of a sycophant? When I first heard that lame claim Jimmy Carter was the POTUS. Quite frankly I hope that they get this thing working and into every cop car in America pronto.
Travis Couture posted on FB:
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