California police chiefs
asked the DEA in 2006 to subvert California law on medical marijuana.
The latest government data indicated that over the past 15 years teen cigarette use declined while
marijuana use increased to the point where teens use them pretty much equally now.
Obama asked America what the most important issues facing the country were and with all the questions in the world that could be asked, 16 of the top 50 were on drug policy (mostly marijuana) -- including
the number one question!
Our government's Merida Initiative
is underway to help the Mexican government fight their drug war -- $1.6 billion over three years, with $400 million going to Mexico this year for a combination of law enforcement training and equipment, and technical advice. More severed heads to follow.
Jim Ramstead, the candidate being floated as the next drug czar, was the sole sponsor of
an earmark providing $235,000 to Minnesota Teen Challenge, a branch of a national anti-addiction group which believes that recruiting people into the Assemblies of God ministry will cure their addiction.
Barry Cooper's KopBusters
rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. Less than 24 hours later, the Odessa narcotics unit raided the house only to find KopBuster's attorney waiting under a system of complex gadgetry and spy cameras that streamed online to the KopBuster's secret mobile office nearby.
Posted by J. Gibson Verkuil