At a recent make-your-own pizza party hosted by an old friend, I rolled up a fat joint from my private stash and passed it around just before the first pie emerged from the oven. A beautifully grown, perfectly cured, 100 percent organic, resin-coated wonder str… High Times
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Justice Dept Shifts Policy for Drug Sentencing
In an effort to ease prison overcrowding, the Obama Administration will implement a major shift in policy, one that sidesteps federal mandatory minimum sentencing for low-level drug offenses. In a speech Monday at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting, A… High Times
Should US Eliminate Drug Czar?
On August 1 President Obama announcedthat, after four years, GilKerlikowskewas out as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – also known as US drug czar.Kerlikowskewill likely move to the Department of Homeland … High Times
Holder Seeks To Avert Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences. The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Holder will reveal in […]
Federal Judge: NYC’s Stop-and-Frisk Unconstitutional
A federal judge rejected the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy Monday. JudgeShiraScheindlinfound that the practice, which gives police the power to stop and search any person they believe to be suspicious, violated the constitutional right… High Times
Glass Artist of the Month: Carsten Carlile
Carsten Carlile lets his imagination run wild in the studio where he creates skeletons, monsters, and VWs! High Times
Justice Dept Seeks To Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., […]
Legalizing Pot Means Endorsing Stupidity
Justin Trudeau’s advocacy of legal marijuana is mere political pandering In drug-dabbling days of yore, there was one narcotic that I knew from the get-go could be my undoing: heroin. With the possible exception of sex, there’s no euphoric feeling on Earth so sweet as a smack rush. And while I don’t accept that dipping […]
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The End Of Pot Panic
WRONG-ON-WEED CONSERVATIVES DON’T GET IT: CANADIANS WANT DRUG LAWS BASED ON FACTS On a late July cross-Canada tour, new Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made headlines when he declared the time had come to legalize marijuana. “Listen, marijuana is not a health food supplement; it’s not great for you,” Trudeau told reporters on July 25. “But […]