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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 8:35 AM PDT

2011/04/19 · 08:35

Last week, Governor Chris Gregoire indicated that she plans to veto a medical cannabis bill that has the support of doctors, patients, city governments, and the legislature. The bill had been carefully written and amended to ensure that Washington would have the soundest medical cannabis regulations in the country, protecting patients, providing clarity for law enforcement, and allowing cities to enact smart zoning regulations to keep dispensaries from being located near schools. Instead, the governor appears to be misinterpreting established federal policy in order to veto it, potentially leaving Washington with its existing mess of unregulated dispensaries and inviting more conflicts between law enforcement and the communities they're tasked to protect.

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Sunday April 20, 2008 · 5:24 PM PDT

2008/04/20 · 17:24

[This is Part 5 in the Mutinyblogging series - previous posts here, here, here, and here]

"You know, in their silliest moments, the Three Stooges never reached this level of indignity" - Tom Servo

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 6:45 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 06:45

[This is the fourth part of the Mutinyblogging series, a salute to this terrible movie and the MST3K episode it spawned --- Earlier parts here, here, and here]

"It has to be noted that Captain Santa Claus really is failing here" - Mike Nelson

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Monday July 16, 2007 · 4:40 PM PDT

2007/07/16 · 16:40

[I posted this up recently at Effin' Unsound]

I'm not sure how any introduction could possibly do this post justice. Ms. Tracy, take it away:

This morning, as a first arrival, I was advocating for a youth at the King County Juvenile Court. As we sat in the lobby which seats approximately 150 people, my vigilant American eagle eyes spotted a Middle Eastern man casually dressed with the Shari’ah regulation beard and mustache walking into the waiting lobby.

Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot know for sure that the events being described in this post actually happened or not, but what I do know is that if they did --- holy shit.

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Monday July 09, 2007 · 4:05 PM PDT

2007/07/09 · 16:05

I apologize if this has been diaried already today, but as someone who has followed the trial of Cory Maye, the Mississippi man who was sent to death row under very questionable circumstances following a botched drug raid, I want to get out the word on this.

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Sunday April 29, 2007 · 2:43 PM PDT

2007/04/29 · 14:43

This is my last Drug War Roundup for a little while. My commentary this week is posted here. It describes why I've been doing this and why I think this issue is so important. I'm taking a break as I know I won't have enough time to do this over the next several months. I want to thank everyone who's been reading this diary and recommending it.

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Saturday April 14, 2007 · 12:06 PM PDT

2007/04/14 · 12:06

Recently, I had an exchange with a drug warrior at Reload, my main site for posting drug war news and info. In a response to a breakdown I'd done of something he'd written online, he made these remarks in my comments:

Whose right is it to promote morality then? God? Religion? Those seemed to have worked great over the years. Geez, it's as if you have no understanding of history. Of course government dictates morality...they call them laws.

...

I would love to prohibit alcohol, but it's completely inpractical, we both know that. I'll stick to what can continue to be illegal.

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Saturday March 31, 2007 · 9:28 PM PDT

2007/03/31 · 21:28

Washington State's law authorizing medical marijuana came into effect with a voter initiative in 1998. In the years since, Washington State residents who have a medical need for the drug have been either growing the plant themselves or obtaining it from unofficial caregivers. Due to the vagueness of the original law passed by the voters, however, it became fairly easy for law enforcement officials to undermine the spirit of the law while still remaining within the letter of it. These incidents have been especially common in the more rural areas of the state, where opposition to marijuana in general runs the highest.

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Sunday March 18, 2007 · 12:31 PM PDT

2007/03/18 · 12:31

Last spring, Mexico's congress passed a bill that would have decriminalized the personal use of drugs. The bill was similar to what had been done in Portugal five years before (and much of Europe has already decriminalized the possession and use of softer drugs like marijuana). President Vicente Fox promised to sign the bill, but after a complete freakout by American officials over the perceived consequences of such a move, Fox vetoed it. The legislature made an effort to override his veto, but nothing came about before the summer elections, when Felipe Calderon was elected in a close, controversial election.

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Friday March 02, 2007 · 6:56 PM PST

2007/03/02 · 18:56

Five years after coalition forces went into Afghanistan to topple the Taliban, the country is still struggling with security problems while the Taliban has been able to rebuild itself and continue to challenge the Karzai government. Just about everyone from the Bush Administration to the UN to NATO leadership recognizes that the opium trade is the root cause of our problems there. Afghanistan produces 90% of the world's illicit supply of opium, raking in billions of dollars for those who are able to grow it, process it, and export it to the west. In a poor country like Afghanistan, this money has easily corrupted officials all the way up through the government.

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Sunday February 18, 2007 · 12:36 PM PST

2007/02/18 · 12:36

Back in November, when Evangelical leader Ted Haggard was exposed as a homosexual who paid for meth (illegal) and to have sex with a male prostitute (illegal), he was not charged for either of those two crimes. Instead, he was able to enter "rehab." At the end of his "rehabilitation," Haggard didn't announce that he was no longer a meth user or a john. Instead, he proudly boasted to the world that he was no longer a homosexual, the one part of his routine that was not even illegal, and for most people, not even a problem.

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Sunday February 04, 2007 · 11:34 AM PST

2007/02/04 · 11:34

Driving while under the influence of marijuana is a controversial topic. Few people will come out and say that operating a vehicle in that mental state is an entirely safe proposition (even people who've done it regularly), but it's also wrong to simply equate it to the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol, which is a much clearer public risk. Over the years, a number of studies have been done to determine what level of risk exists when operating a motor vehicle under the influence of marijuana. This report by the BBC is a very interesting look. In that video, a reporter rode in a car on a test track with a driver who had just used marijuana. He found that the driver did not seem impaired in any way, and actually drove somewhat better.

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