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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010It will take a miracle to save Haiti. Most of the recovery efforts are short term and will only result in future starvation and misery. While it is important that money be donated now for relief efforts today, we must recognize that we are only postponing a human disaster of even greater proportions tomorrow.
If we [...]
Your Constitutional Right to a Speedy Trial
Friday, October 9th, 2009The Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution reads as follows:
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed [...]
Advice to Defendants
Sunday, October 4th, 2009Less than 3% of defendants exercise their right to a jury trial and yet the court system is in near gridlock. Refusing to cooperate and demanding a trial places a significant load on the criminal justice system and is the surest way to end this phony drug war.
How the War on Pot Protects Rapists and Kidnappers
Monday, September 21st, 2009Phillip Garrido has been charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and raping her over the course of years. Dugard was kept hidden for 18 years in a backyard compound, despite a 2006 call a neighbor made to 911, reporting that a women and children were living in tents [...]
Murder by Prohibition
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Marijuana has never killed anyone, but Marijuana Prohibition has killed hundreds directly and millions suffer needlessly as well. In their murderous zeal to exterminate a plant and those who use it, a savage war is being waged on unarmed and mostly sick civilians. Even innocent animals like family dogs are routinely shot and [...]
Freedom Cannot be Licensed
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Despite President Obama’s pledge to end the raids, the DEA raided a California collective with 154 plants, Dozens of DEA agents armed with assault rifles and driving more than two dozen black Cadillac Escalades, assisted by four helicopters flying overhead, raided the medical garden, which was in full compliance with state law. Apparently, the narcs [...]
How Radicals Saved The Medical Marijuana Movement
Monday, July 13th, 2009There is an attempt these days to rewrite the history of Medical Marijuana to peddle the notion that it was the Moderates who authored and passed Prop. 215, California’s historic voter initiative to legalize the medical use of marijuana.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Back in 1995-96, while the initiative was being written, medical [...]
Yes We Cannabis
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009There are always those who scoff at new ideas and ventures. Such Doubters will tell you, and anyone else who will listen, that Cannabis Science, Inc., our new cannabinoid pharmaceutical company, is too risky and our stock too volatile.
Yes, our venture is a risk and investors could lose everything, but where is there a [...]
Appeasement is the Disease; Freedom is the Cure
Friday, April 10th, 2009“Government doesn’t work. It doesn’t keep our streets safe and it doesn’t educate our children. Government is good at only one thing: It breaks your legs, hands you a pair of crutches, and says, ‘See, without us you wouldn’t be able to walk.’”
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Saving the World will never be easier or less expensive then NOW
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Last week, Gulf Onshore, a publicly traded, over-the-counter, oil leasing company acquired the assets of Cannex Therapeutics, a cannabis research and development company that was started by Dr. Robert Melamede, Richard Cowan and yours truly.
In simple terms, the owners of Gulf have decided to exit the oil business, sell off their oil leases and merge [...]