Archive for January, 2009

Change, what change?

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

High Times interviewed me in their October 2008 issue and I predicted that whether McCain or Obama won, it wouldn’t make much difference in policy. Sadly, people are beginning to realize that Obama’s call for change, indeed his own web site’s call for legalization, does not include backing off from the war on weed. [...]

What will the Narcs do when they run out of gas?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Former US Intelligence Officer and longtime activist, Clifford Schaffer, recently posted an intriguing forecast for the War on Drugs, as well as all the other terrible government programs that do far more harm than good.
According to Schaffer, the state and federal governments are so broke that we are just a few months away from a [...]

First Obama DEA Raids: Change?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided a medical marijuana dispensary today in South Lake Tahoe, California, in the first days of the new Obama Administration. Even though President Barack Obama had made repeated promises during his election campaign to end federal raids in medical marijuana states, a California medical cannabis dispensary, [...]

Knapp announces “Libertarian Shadow Cabinet,” appoints three

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
01/23/09
POC Thomas L. Knapp
admin@shadowcabinet.us
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23 — As President Barack Obama completes his administration’s move into the White House and his cabinet appointees take their posts, the libertarian opposition gave American life today to a longstanding British tradition — the “shadow cabinet.”
“In the United Kingdom, the political party not in power normally [...]