Quick Hits (News)A new blend: cotton, rayon and heroinBy: Robert Rudolph (Star-Ledger) Federal authorities in New Jersey say a stealthy new technique for smuggling drugs into the country is on the rise and is flooding the metropolitan area with a half-billion dollars worth of high-quality heroin each year. Click here for the full story. Medical marijuana access regulations are unconstitutionalBy: James McCarten (Canadian Press) TORONTO (CP) - A group of seriously ill people has won the first battle in an ongoing war with Ottawa over a scheme to permit the use of medical marijuana the patients say violates their constitutional rights. Click here for the full story. New D.A. and sheriff are expected to take less rigid stances on pot and forestry issuesBy: Emily Gurnon (The Times) Each summer, southern Humboldt County begins to look like military-occupied territory. Low-flying helicopters buzz fields, land on private property and disgorge cargoes of camouflaged sheriff's deputies in search of marijuana plantations. Click here for the full story. Can they do thatBy: Bud Life Lawyers recently argued in San Francisco over whether a federal judge can or should bar U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Drug Enforcement Administration chief Asa Hutchinson from treating medical marijuana patients as criminals. Click here for the full story. |
Growin' Our Own (Feature stories)The supply side of things (Part 1)By: Elmore Stone Reagan was right. Like it or not, he was correct. Supply side economics is what makes the world go 'round. I really don't care what business you are in, be it a mom and pop grocery store or drugs. It is all about supply. And in the drug trade supply side economics takes front and center both globally and in economic importance. Click here for the full story. Oh, shitBy: Sister Rose Some people call me a hippie. I'm not. Not really. You see, I was much too young to make the scene in Haight-Ashbury in the sixties. Wish I had been there, but, oh well! What I actually am is ecology minded. I wear clothes made from natural cotton or hemp, I like my food to be natural and organic. I demonstrated against the genetically altered corn and growth hormones for beef. Not that I eat meat - nasty stuff! Humans should NOT alter what nature has provided, that's all. And I think you'll agree that nature has provided us some wondrous things. Take marijuana (no, really, please take some - it will make you feel better!) Nature has given us a perfect medicine to combat pain and increase appetite. I despise the feds for trying to stop us from helping people with natural medicine! They are trying to do away with all the co-ops that provide this medicine to sick folks, the bastards. They bust people, rip up gardens - you know the gig. Well, we got around it for a while! Click here for the full story. Busted, Japanese styleBy: Scot Free My rear derailleur had completely ripped off from a hard month on the trail and train. I had to get off and push. It was a good time for a smoke so I parked in a near by kiddy park beside an elevated freeway entrance, climbed the slide and hit a bowl of my home grown hash plant from a glass blunt, lightening the perspective of my predicament but demonstrating how difficult it was to find a place to smoke in this concentrated urban compound, the paranoia was distracting. I was spoiled by the past month of instant access to isolated mountain trails and streams where I could spark up in communion at will. Click here for the full story. DEA is not the problem, congress is the problemWho is to blame? Bud Life forecasts for 2003 By: Thinking Straight The subject of marijuana prohibition is the responsibility of Congress, who has made it illegal. The agency responsible for enforcing the U.S. Congress' prohibition is the DEA. Let's put this all in a proper perspective. As much as we may want to blame the cops, we have to realize that they are only acting as pit bulls for Congress. The DEA is only doing their job (and they do it well) as it is dictated by Congress. Who is to blame when the DEA harasses medical marijuana users and growers? It's not the DEA, its Congress who made the law, and won't change the law. Don't you agree that its time for Congress to separate the soft drug marijuana from hard drugs, and try out The Dutch Experience? Click here for the full story. |
Pipeline (Other stuff)A quick noteTo all our Brothers and Sisters who are down in the federal pens and reading Bud Life - I want to personally say Thank You, and Hi(gh)! Panama Red New hiding place for drug profits: insurance policiesBy: Eric Lichtblau Law enforcement officials have stated that Colombian cocaine traffickers seeking to launder tens of millions in drug profits from the United States and Mexico had begun exploiting an unlikely haven life insurance policies. Click here for the full story. Feds track patients' drug useBy: R. Joseph Gelarden Information about drugs such as Vicodin, among the prescriptions tracked by police, is shared with drug enforcement agencies. Click here for the full story. Court declares state's civil forfeiture funding scheme unconstitutionalBy: Institute for Justice New Jersey's method of financing police and prosecutors through civil forfeiture is unconstitutional, Superior Court Judge G. Thomas Bowen of Salem County ruled in his opinion. Click here for the full story. Inmates go free to help states reduce deficitsBy: Fox Butterfield (NY Time) They began walking out of the Fayette County Jail in December, the first of 567 Kentucky state prison inmates that Gov. Paul E. Patton abruptly ordered released this week in a step to reduce a $500 million budget deficit. Click here for the full story. |
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