War on Drugs

The state’s ridiculous and criminal war on drugs claims another life. A Killeen, TX police officer has died after being shot during a no-knock search warrant Friday. According to KXXV, Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie succumbed to his injuries at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, just after 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. …

RT.com April 24, 2014 The enormous outlay for overcrowded US federal prisons is forcing the White House to consider clemency and entreat non-violent, low-level felons serving terms for drug-related crimes to apply for early release. Next week the US Bureau of Prisons will make the inmates aware of the six …

April 6, 2014 What happens when the ones who do the shaking down are shook down? The interrogation, the harassment, let’s see how fun cops think it is when they get a taste of their own medicine. Here is a little sample of what it looks like when we begin …

March 18, 2014 A fight between a police officer and man on Philadelphia’s SEPTA system was caught on camera yesterday. The officer tries to combat the man’s attempts to subdue him with his baton and pepper spray, but his attempts prove futile. Eventually SEPTA Police Officer Ron Jones becomes overpowered …

Federal Government Signs Off On Study Using Marijuana To Treat Veterans’ PTSD March 18. 2014 BY MATTHEW PERRONE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The federal government has signed off on a long-delayed study looking at marijuana as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, a development that drug researchers are hailing …

After public outrage and legal proceedings, a judge has simply thrown out the indictment of Officer Richard Haste, who gunned down an unarmed teen, Ramarley Graham, inside his own home, without a warrant. Haste was facing manslaughter charges until the judge tossed the indictment. This story got a minuscule amount …

Aug 2, 2013 A little girl was confiscated from her loving parents because they smoked marijuana. Hill’s two-year-old daughter Alex, short for Alexandria, was removed from her parent’s home last November for “neglectful supervision” following her parents’ admission that they smoked pot after she was put to bed, reported KVUE. …