Archive for March, 2009

How Libertarians knew the Crash was coming.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

These days, everyone is an economist. However, few people can claim to have predicted the economic crisis, as I did. Back in 1995, when I wrote the Politics of Consciousness, I penned a chapter called “Voodoo Economics.” What I said on page 34 is certainly prescient: “The specter of another Great Depression [...]

Denying the Punishment Culture the Consent of the Victim

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Happy anniversary for all who supported my battle to uphold Prop. 215 in court. It was eight years ago that I publicly refused probation, denounced Placer County’s corrupt and unconstitutional abuse of me and other medical marijuana patients, and headed off to produce the Pot TV News in British Columbia.
A lot of people were [...]

Calif Med MJ Laws No Longer Conflict With Federal Law

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Within the past year, we’ve seen several key developments that have further defined a clear legal distinction between state and federal laws regarding medical marijuana.
Now, according to US Attorney General Eric Holder, California Attorney General Jerry Brown, California Courts, and even the US Supreme Court which let stand the lower court decisions, there [...]