Dissent, Disloyalty & Double Standards (June 30, 2003)
"Limbaugh and Hannity aren’t alone among conservative pundits who opposed what they called 'Clinton’s war' in 1999, but who today demand unqualified devotion to Bush administration military policies." How is it that people become so partisan that they throw real, honest to goodness morality, not to mention critical thinking, right out the window?

Nevada marijuana study gets nowhere (June 30, 2003)
"Two years have passed since the Legislature directed the University of Nevada Medical School to conduct a study on the effectiveness of medical marijuana, but there hasn’t been any progress since the 2001 Legislature."

Mayor Vows Not To Pull Strings For Arrested Son (June 30, 2003)
This mayor is vowing to let his son bare the full weight of the law as a result of his marijuana arrest, instead of realizing how stupid and evil the laws are and working to change them. Does he really think of his son as a criminal?

Marijuana native to Iowa (June 30, 2003)
"She said industrial hemp, which is very likely the variety found on campus, has less than 1 percent THC content (the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) and would be of little use to those seeking a recreational drug." But it is still illegal, and the federal government and its local allies in police departments all across the country are still wasting tax dollars waging war on this type of marijuana too.

Feds Allow Expansion of Marijuana Study (June 30, 2003)
Meanwhile the feds are also wasting tax dollars to the tunes of billions of dollars waging war on the beautiful marijuana plant and the users thereof.

$10,000 to eradicate marijuana (June 30, 2003)
Yet another shining example of wasting tax dollars.

Legalization of Marijuana (June 30, 2003)
"Have you ever heard the expression “War on drugs”?. That was first used in 1972 when Richard Nixon described a series of govern-mental programs intended to suppress the consumption of certain recreational drugs."

Messy marijuana law tries courts, police (June 30, 2003)
"Right now, there is no law against possessing marijuana for personal use in the province, due to a couple of recent court rulings. Police officers, lawyers and judges are asking what happens next."

Sheriff's smallest deputies pledge to stay off drugs (June 30, 2003)
Indoctrinate the children early.

£55m of drugs seized, £5m of illegal assets confiscated: the war goes on (June 30, 2003)
Scotland's War on Some Drugs and Users shows no sign of let up.

Get tough, please (June 30, 2003)
This article notes a push for stronger sentencing for drug offenses.

Seven Tonnes of Illegal Drugs Seized in Russia This Year (June 30, 2003)
"This was announced today by Chairman of the State Committee for Combating Drugs Victor Cherkesov. He also said that 105 thousand drug-related crimes had been recorded during this period."

Delaware Senate approves sentencing reform bill (June 29, 2003)
"A bill that would rewrite sentencing guidelines for many crimes, increasing the minimum mandatory sentences for manslaughter and other violent crimes while easing the penalties for some drug and traffic offenses, cleared the Senate Thursday."

DEA's War on Medical Marijuana (June 29, 2003)
This is a list of some of the raids on medical marijuana growers and patients by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

Drug law reform and all that jive (June 29, 2003)
"Pataki, Bruno and Silver would have us forget that reform of the the Rockefeller drug laws has been an opening-of-session priority item for several years."

Weapon of Mass Deception (June 29, 2003)
"What the Pentagon doesn’t want us to know about depleted uranium." Remember, some drugs are bad for us, so bad we deserves to go to prison or drug treatment for choosing to use, but depleted uranium isn't so bad at all after it's been used to kill people and everything else in its path. Or so "they'd" like us and the rest of the world to believe.

10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq (June 29, 2003)
"The mainstream press, after an astonishing two years of cowardice, is belatedly drawing attention to the unconscionable level of administrative deception. They seem surprised to find that when it comes to Iraq, the Bush administration isn't prone to the occasional lie of expediency but, in fact, almost never told the truth."

Police Raid Gone Awry: A Muddled Path to the Wrong Door (June 29, 2003- Free NYTimes registration required)
"The raid that resulted highlights not only the ways that aggressive police work can go wrong, but also the willingness — or hesitance — of the authorities to take responsibility for preventing such errors. At the time, the incident received no publicity and no serious attention from the police leadership."

Is Ashcroft Fit For Office? (June 29, 2003)
"The Justice Department still will not name the 'detainees' in the previous roundup. It's necessary, said Ashcroft, 'to protect their privacy.'"

Bush Receives "F" For Environmental Issues on LCV 2003 Presidential Report Card (June 29, 2003)
"Report Says Bush Favors Corporate Interests Over the Public Interest When It Comes to Protecting America’s Air, Land and Water," but is this really so surprising, or that different from any previous US administration for the last few decades? It's only different in that the GW Bush administration is being so blatant about its cronyisms and greedheaded warprofiteering while destroying our environment.

Senate Dems Begin Inquiry Into Iraq Intelligence (June 29, 2003)
"On Thursday, 24 House Democrats announced that would seek an independent commission to examine the Iraq intelligence. They say they want to know whether intelligence was inaccurate or whether the administration presented a distorted interpretation of the intelligence to make the case for war."

Officials differ on crack's prevalence (June 28, 2003)
"'We're putting landlords on notice that, if you have drug dealers, we're going to federally seize their property,' said [Brattleboro Police Detective Michael] Gorman. 'We're hoping it will send a message to others to help stop this drug infestation.'"

Colombian Fighters' Drug Trade Is Detailed (June 28, 2003)
"A confidential assessment prepared for the president of Colombia on whether peace talks should begin with the nation's main paramilitary force has concluded that the group, which frequently fights alongside the Colombian military, is a drug-trafficking organization, according to a copy of the document."

Britain Puts Off Marijuana Decriminalization (June 28, 2003)
"Britain's Home Office has decided to delay decriminalizing marijuana until next January, the Guardian reported June 23."

Health Canada studies new Paxil warnings (June 28, 2003)
Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal.

Major amount of marijuana found at YTG (June 28, 2003)
"More than two kilograms of marijuana seized Monday from a Yukon government building are the subject of an ongoing RCMP investigation."

Eagles get drug law clarification (June 28, 2003)
"The Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, D.C., has issued guidance to its field offices nationwide after an incident in Billings involving enforcement of a new anti-drug law."

Controversy Surrounds Drug-Reform Fundraiser (June 28, 2003)
"A fundraiser planned by the newly formed Billings, Mont., chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has turned into a political brouhaha, the Billings Gazette reported June 14."

State's medical marijuana program runs a surplus (June 28, 2003)
"Oregon is the first of the nine states that allow marijuana to be smoked for medicinal purposes to offer discounts to low-income people, advocates of the drug say."

Town reaches settlement with Pillsbury (June 28, 2003)
"The town has reached a settlement with a local advocate of marijuana decriminalization for the use of Stone Park."

No Candidate Wins Majority in MoveOn.Org PAC First-Ever Democratic Online"Primary" (June 28, 2003)
"Howard Dean received the highest vote total with 43.87% of the vote (139,360 votes); followed by Dennis Kucinich with 23.93% (76,000 votes); and John Kerry with 15.73% (49,973 votes)."

IRS: Over 2000 Big Earners Paid No Tax in 2000 (June 28, 2003)
"More than 2,000 individuals with incomes of $200,000 or more paid zero in federal income taxes in the year 2000, according to a report released by the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday."

Bush Misled US Into Iraq War--An Official Finding? (June 28, 2003)
It sure seems like a "normal" conspiracy theory to the editor of DrugWar.com that David Corn is peddling here, only it isn't so much a "theory" anymore. The Bush administration conspired to lead the US into a murderous war for nefarious reasons.

Toward One-Party Rule (June 28, 2003)
"But it's the nexus of money and patronage that may well make the election a foregone conclusion."

Study: Pot doesn't hurt thinking skills (June 28, 2003)
Once again, a study "proves" that pot don't rot you're brayn.

I Can Fly Without Drug, Coach (June 28, 2003)
"If you're married, you have a child and you walk in one day and your wife is smoking marijuana, do you call the police and ask them to put her in jail? I think you try to help her see the better picture in life."

Hong Kong pop star Alex To fined for marijuana possession (June 28, 2003)
How much of Japanese citizens' tax money was wasted prosecuting this guy?

Don't Confirm the Raids! (June 27, 2003)
"Tell the Senate: Vote against Karen Tandy or any other nominee for DEA administrator who doesn't promise to stop the raids on medical marijuana patients and caregivers."

The war off drugs (June 27, 2003)
"The success of a California measure that offers drug offenders treatment before prison points a way out of the drug-war stalemate."

Why Burma Matters (June 27, 2003)
"Since 1951, the production of narcotics has become a major occupation in the tribal regions abutting China and Thailand, and like elsewhere in the world, the development of narcotics as an industry coincided with the arrival of the CIA in eternal pursuit of its phantom wars. Burma's first drug warlords were these Kuomintang Chinese generals, whose forces the CIA was arming and training to 'retake' China."

Study: Pot Doesn't Cause Permanent Brain Damage (June 27, 2003)
"Smoking marijuana will certainly affect perception, but it does not cause permanent brain damage, researchers from the University of California at San Diego said on Friday in a study."

Cheney And The CIA: Not Business As Usual (June 27, 2003)
"Did the president himself know that the information used to secure congressional approval for war was based on a forgery? We don't know. But which would be worse - that he knew or that he didn't?"

N.J. Judge Unseals Transcript In Controversial Terror Case (June 25, 2003)
"Today, the superior court judge who took the secret evidence last November unsealed the hearing transcript, revealing that the allegations were based largely on inaccurate information that Atriss and his lawyer said they could have rebutted, if only they had been allowed to see it." Secret evidence? Yes, you read that right. In the United State of America today, the authorities can legally lock up a person using secret evidence, something one hundred percent contrary to what this country once stood for, or at least what I thought it stood for, after my years of US public school training.

Amerikka's Racist War on Drugs (June 25, 2003)
Ed "NJWeedman" Forchion points out that not only does slavery still exist in the US, but that it was actually legalized in some forms by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Lying has become Bush's signature as president (June 25, 2003)
"In the spirit of rekindling public outrage, here are just some of the president's lies."

Teens, and now DEA, are on trail of hallucinogenic herb (June 25, 2003)
The DEA, in its endless quest to justify the exhorbitant amount of US taxdollars it spends year after year as it shreds the already tattered US Constitution, is setting its sights on salvia divinorum.

Skate for Justice Takes to the Streets (June 24, 2003)
"In perhaps one of the most unusual ways of protesting state and national drug policies, about 10 teens and twenty-somethings in-line skated all or part of the 48.9 miles from Binghamton to Ithaca on Sunday, wearing stickers and T-shirts that read 'Stop the Drug War.'"

What Did Eisenhower Mean When He Warned of a Military Industrial Complex? Take a Look at the Carlyle Group. (June 24, 2003)
"He [George W. Bush] was doing it all. He was pitching a tax cut for the very wealthy while doing an advertisement for his father’s company, and professing the war to be over, and kicking off his reelection campaign, all in one fell swoop. It was an amazing achievement."

Government Repackaged Pot Status Quo (June 24, 2003)
"Most people seemed to miss that the government promised decriminalization but ultimately gave us nothing. All we received was a watered-down version that still exposes the marijuana smoker to arrest, incarceration and the mark of Cain ( i.e. the criminal record ). The status quo was merely repackaged to create the illusion of change. The government gave us a national drug strategy made in the U.S.A.."

Democracy- Use It Or Lose It (June 24, 2003)
There will be an event held July 5, 2003 in Biloxi, Mississippi where participants will take a look at such topics as "When laws cause more harm than the behavior that they are trying to correct" and "Corporate control of our Democratic process." There will also be live entertainment, food and drink.

In Angola, A Jetliner's Vanishing Act (June 24, 2003)
"U.S. authorities say it is likely the airplane was filched as part of a business dispute or financial scam. But even so, they say, there is a danger that unscrupulous people in control of a plane that size could make it available to arms or gem smugglers, guerrilla movements or terrorists."

Your Medical Privacy (June 24, 2003)
"Finally, it is not commonly known that your medical records are subject to the same provision of the USA PATRIOT Act that requires libraries to give federal law enforcement your computer usage and book borrowing information upon request without telling you."

Captured al-Qa'eda Man was FBI Spy (June 24, 2003)
With stricking similarities to the 1993 WTC bombing plot, in which one of the plotters was an FBI spy, the FBI was using the Brooklyn Bridge bomb-plot suspect also as a spy.

Just Because (June 24, 2003- free registration required)
This Summer's Lollapalooza is on the way. Listen to the new Jane's Addiction song, "Just Because" here.

Justice Denied at the Source (June 23, 2003)
"It appears that the American people feel that the government is intent on prying into every nook and cranny of people's private lives, while at the same time doing all it can to block access to government information that would inform the American people about what is being done in their name."

Where Are the WMDs? Where's Congress? (June 23, 2003)
"But here’s a problem. The Republican chairman of committee, Rep. Porter Goss, a former CIA agent, said, 'I’m not going into what the customer did with the intelligence.' In other words, his committee will investigate whether the CIA slanted intelligence in order to please their customers. It will look to see if the spooks did a lousy of finding out was going on in Iraq in the first place. But the committee will not conduct a post-mortem on the actual policies and decision of the Bush White House."

Addicts cope with life without methadone (June 23, 2003)
"This March, budget cuts forced Lane out of the drug-treatment and counseling program. His life went into a tailspin. He lost his job, apartment and girlfriend. He went back to living under a bridge and spending at least $100 a day to support his habit with black-tar heroin."

Slaughtergate (June 23, 2003)
Not to mention the thousands who die every week in the country because of prohibition's lies and deceits in one way or anohter, there're other US citizens dying just about every day in Iraq now, again over lies and deceits.

Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser (June 23, 2003)
This is the first chapter of Eric Schlosser's new book.

Troopers target Bush booze, drug use (June 23, 2003)
No, not The President Bush, (as justly poetic as that may sound), but rather, the cops are targeting rural areas and the residents thereof.

UK- Plan to seize drug homes halted (June 23, 2003)
"Plans to seize the homes of cannabis users considered a 'serious nuisance' have been dropped despite a push from Home Secretary David Blunkett."

Halliburton, Principal Beneficiary of Iraq's Reconstruction (June 23, 2003)
Dick Cheney's "former" company Halliburton is making one hell of a lot of money off the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent open-ended occupation.

Canada Wakes Up and Smells The Green (June 23, 2003)
"Views on the legalization of marijuana have caused rifts as deep as those in the abortion or war debates."

Equal Justice? (June 23, 2003)
"Drugs, race, and some pretty skewed numbers."

More Floridians Die from Prescription Overdoses than Illegal Drugs (June 23, 2003)
"According to the report, 60 percent of the 2,088 deaths caused by overdoses last year were from legal medication, while 40 percent were a result of cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs."

RX patrol (June 23, 2003)
"It's the newest tool in the war on drugs, but we're not talking illegal drugs like marijuana or cocaine."

Confessions of a crooked cop (June 21, 2003)
"Senior police say that some of the undercover budget had been used by the crime department to buy computers. 'They actively encouraged the chemical diversion policy because it helped fund other areas in the drug squad,' according to Paton. According to a confidential interim Ceja report corruption claims against the former drug squad are worse than first thought."

Afghanistan's Opium Economy Needs to be 'Broken', says Top UN Official (June 21, 2003)
"The Director of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, predicts that Afghanistan will remain the world's top opium producer in the coming years and is calling for international cooperation to curb Afghanistan's illicit drug trade."

Colombian general says forced out by Washington (June 21, 2003)
"A retired Colombian general on Tuesday accused the United States of pressuring the government to kick him out of the army for the disappearance of a cocaine haul after an alleged drug bust."

Mayor wants end to rumors on Moore's death (June 21, 2003)
"According to the medical examiner, Moore shot himself in the mouth outside the Chicago Heights police station last week. Moore's death has dredged up Chicago Heights' corrupt past because of his drug dealing on the city's East Side and his role in convicting three cops involved in that operation."

17 Detroit police officers accused of civil rights violations (June 21, 2003)
"In what the government described as a pattern of civil rights violations, 17 city police officers accused of stealing money and drugs from suspects during illegal searches were indicted on federal conspiracy charges."

Drugs chief 'ran corrupt unit' (June 21, 2003)
"The former head of an elite Victorian drug squad unit ran a corrupt fiefdom and threatened to kill a junior officer who informed on him, a court heard yesterday."

Why Did Bush Use Forged Evidence? (June 21, 2003)
Rep. Henry A. Waxman continues to rake the Bush administration over the coal for its obvious and continued lying about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Media Silent on Clark's 9/11 Comments (June 21, 2003)
Former General Wesley Clark adds fuel to the fire, asserting that the Bush administration urged him to implicate Saddam Hussein in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, knowing there was no evidence to support such theorizing.

Cannabis: Our Position For a Canadian Public Policy- Report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs (June 20, 2003)
"We know our proposals are provocative, that they will meet with resistance. However, we are also convinced that Canadian society has the maturity and openness to welcome an informed debate."

Opium plantation found in Sierra Nevada (June 20, 2003)
"Tens of thousands of opium poppies have been seized in the [Sierra National Forest], the first time the drug-producing plants have been found in a national forest in California, officials said."

Drug law reform falters (June 20, 2003)
"A Rockefeller Drug Law reform agreement appeared remote Thursday night, much to the dismay of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and others who thought they had reached a deal with the governor and state legislative leaders in a seven-hour negotiating session the night before."

Celebrity access breeds Albany discontent (June 20, 2003)
"In the end, it was all for nothing, as the talks failed, though after midnight this morning the Pataki administration was desperately trying to restart them. Wednesday's negotiations turned nasty at times, with heated verbal confrontations between Simmons and Bruno."

Coverup in Texasgate (June 20, 2003)
"It is extremely troubling, it is a cover up and it is a violation of federal criminal laws when public safety officers obstruct a federal investigation in this manner. The question is: who are they trying to protect and why are they trying to protect them?"

America In Charge of Iraq Outlaws Protests (June 20, 2003)
"Almost unnoticed outside Iraq, the senior US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, has issued a proclamation outlawing any 'gatherings, pronouncements or publications' that call for the return of the Ba'ath party - or for opposition to the US occupation." But remember, even if there's no weapons of mass destruction, it doesn't matter, because US troops murde...I mean, freed the Iraqi civilians, who are now experiencing US-styled democracy and freedom.

Fascism and What is Coming-How to Fight It (June 20, 2003)
"The channeling of Black youth into prisons, parasitic criminal organizations, the military or neo-colonial regulation systems is a manifestation of fascist-style domination and incorporation of a threatening population."

'Building a bigger trough' (June 20, 2003)
"Before he's done, the money Bush raises will become, dollar for dollar, perhaps the single greatest exercise in public corruption in the history of politics."

The Skull and Bones - Yale University (June 20, 2003)
The occult Bush family 'dossier'.

UMass Leader Says F.B.I. Wants to Kill His Brother (June 20, 2003- free NYTimes registration required)
"William M. Bulger, the president of the University of Massachusetts and the brother of one of the nation's most wanted men, today testified publicly for the first time about his brother, accusing the F.B.I. of wanting to kill him and calling into question the sincerity of the search for him."

Special Forces 'Prepare for Iran Attack' (June 20, 2003)
Oh, they meant Iran, not Iraq.

Report shows extent of illegal drugs in schools (June 20, 2003)
"Traces of heroin were found at seven Rapides Parish schools last school year, including three middle schools. Nine schools tested positive for cocaine, three showed methamphetamine residue and seven have had the club drug ecstasy inside the building in the last few months."

Afghanistan expected to produce record opium crop (June 19, 2003)
Seems that the War on Terror is enabling the production of mass amounts of drug crops.

A Good Day (June 19, 2003- free NYTimes registration)
This is an update on the release of most of the railroaded Tulia, Texas victims of Tom Coleman and the prohibition that enables the likes of Coleman to wreak such evil.

Short: I was Briefed on Bush and Blair's Secret War Pact (June 19, 2003)
"Senior figures in the intelligence community and across Whitehall briefed the former international development secretary Clare Short that Tony Blair had made a secret agreement last summer with George Bush to invade Iraq in February or March, she claimed yesterday."

Ex-CIA Director Says Administration Stretched Facts on Iraq (June 19, 2003)
"Former CIA director Stansfield Turner accused the Bush administration Tuesday of "overstretching the facts" about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in making its case for invading that country."

Opioid Use Suggested for Pain Management (June 18, 2003)
"Physicians should consider the use of narcotics for chronic pain, according to Michael E. Preodor, MD, president of Horizon Hospice in Chicago, Illinois. The medical profession has long known how to use opioids safely and effectively, he told attendees at the 2003 Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, held here April 3-5. Yet they are underused, because of clinicians' concerns about legal issues and the public's fear of addiction, he maintained."

Patriot Act of 2001 Casts Wide Net (June 17, 2003)
"Overall, the policy now allows evidence to be used for prosecuting common criminals even when obtained under extraordinary anti-terrorism powers and information-sharing between intelligence agencies and the FBI."

Xenova Says Its Vaccine Cuts Cocaine Buzz (June 17, 2003)
"British biotech firm Xenova Group Plc said Tuesday its experimental vaccine for cocaine addiction had shown signs of reducing the euphoric effect associated with taking the drug, boosting its shares."

Iraq Occupation Has Deadly Toll For US (June 17, 2003)
"Fifty-six US troops have died in Iraq since the fall of Tikrit nearly nine weeks ago, and the majority of those deaths have come in the past six weeks - after President Bush's May 1 speech declaring that invasion operations had ended. Since then, 46 deaths have been reported among US forces, including 11 from combat wounds."

David Nelsons want off the list (June 17, 2003)
Many US men with this name have felt the wrath of capricious security due to having the same name as a terrorist suspect somewhere.

Land seized in 1995 marijuana case sold (June 17, 2003)
As Libby, the sharp-eyed DrugWar list subscriber who posted this notes: "What really pisses me off about this story is they fail to mention that Rosenweig was essentially murdered by the government. He died in prison while awaiting trial because he was broke after they seized all his assets and they failed to treat his illness properly or at all really. His girlfriend used to call me up crying once a month."

Photos: Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive (June 17, 2003)
"He may be a brutal, fingernail-ripping, electric-shocking despot, but he's our brutal, fingernail-ripping, electric-shocking despot."

Was Eagles Lodge Threatened or Advised by DEA? (June 17, 2003)
The latest repressive moves by the prohibitionistic-minded DEA should send shivers up the spine of freedom loving US citizens, and inspire them to speak up and vote prohibition into extinction.

Supreme Court Allows Defendant's Forced Medication (June 17, 2003)
"A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the government may force defendants to take anti-psychotic medicine to make them competent to stand trial on serious criminal charges, but only under certain limited circumstances."

Iraqi Mobile Labs Nothing to do with Germ Warfare, Report Finds (June 16, 2003)
Does anyone else remember the story of the boy who cried wolf? Read about yet more disinfo and lies from the US and British warmongers trying to justify their mass slaughter of Iraqi people, not to mention the rest of Iraq's inhabitants and environment.

Whales Face New Bloodbath if Japan Wins Hunting Vote (June 16, 2003)
If we can't stop slaughtering the defenseless creatures of the world, how do we expect to stop the slaughter of humans themselves?

U.S. prison population largest in world (June 16, 2003)
The appelation "Land of the Free" would be laughable if it weren't such a big fat lie for such a large percentage of the US population.

Partway to Freedom (June 16, 2003- free NYTiems registration required)
"At least 12 of the people who were sent to prison on the word of a lying, reckless, bigoted lawman in Tulia, Tex., will step into the sweet light and fresh air of freedom this afternoon. But they have not yet been exonerated."

A 12-Step Program for Regime Change (June 16, 2003)
Can 12-stepping help the US find it's path to rightousness?

Canada- Marijuana cases can be prosecuted (June 15, 2003)
"The federal Justice Department insists it can prosecute outstanding marijuana possession cases in Ontario, despite conceding there is no prohibition against holding small amounts of the drug."

WeaponsGate: The Coming Downfall of Lying Regimes? (June 15, 2003)
"Bush may or may not ever realize how he was ill served by the neo-con blight that took root within his administration, particularly within the Department of Defense. But the historians and scholars, who will look back on what turned the tide for a supposedly 'popular' war president, will point to the self-described 'cabal' whose lies brought about a credibility gap unseen in the United States since the days of Watergate." What about all the official US government lies told to justify the War on Some Drugs and Users over the last 90 years?

Leading Democrat Slams Republican Move to Close Hearings on US' Iraq Intelligence (June 15, 2003)
"A top congressional Democrat slammed as 'totally inadequate' a decision by Republican lawmakers to hold closed door hearings on the quality and accuracy of intelligence reports used to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq."

Juries Reject Death Penalty in Nearly All Federal Trials (June 15, 2003- free NYTimes registration required)
"Federal prosecutors failed to persuade juries to impose the death penalty in 15 of the last 16 trials in which they sought it, says the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which assists lawyers defending federal capital cases."

The Cannabis Column- #9 Chronicling a fresh attempt to reclassify cannabis with the DEA (June 15, 2003)
"So here's the bottom line from the Pew Research Center polls in 2001: 34% of the public support the legalization of cannabis, 46% support decriminalization, and 73% support allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes."

It's Not the WMD; It's the Abuse and Betrayal of the American People (June 14, 2003)
"Just when we thought the Bush team's ongoing rape of America couldn't get more savage, we learn the GOP doesn't want a proper investigation into whether the administration deceived the country to war. If our Democratic leaders remain as craven and ethically amorphous as usual, they probably won't put up a fight, and we the people will then be handed a cover-up disguised as 'routine oversight.'"

Our drug war is rich in silliness (June 14, 2003)
"Think about that for a moment: Walters is making veiled threats against the largest trading partnership in the world -- trade worth $1 billion per day -- because Canada might remove criminal penalties for those carrying half an ounce of marijuana. What nonsense."

Appeal of a teen's pot acquittal should be rushed through courts, judge rules (June 14, 2003)
Prohibitionists are not happy with the precedent setting ruling by Canada Superior Court Justice Steven Rogin from Jan. 2, 2003, which nearly erased Canada's anti-pot possession laws.

A Few Things to be Thankful For (June 14, 2003)
"Prohibition was the granddaddy of the law of unintended consequences. It was to the 1920s what our draconian and dreadfully stupid drug laws are to our era. I wish we had the courage now to do what our ancestors did in 1933."

The Right to Party (June 14, 2003)
"Sex and drugs and live music make life great. These are the kinds of things that were outlawed in Taliban-run Afghanistan. If they can't be legal and easy in America, then I don't want to live here anymore. I want to live in a place where drugs and sex are tolerated, where the government provides a sane level of social services, where religion isn't always threatening to take over the state."

Biden's Sneaky Rave Act Draws First Blood (June 14, 2003)
"An agent of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used threats of RAVE Act prosecutions to intimidate the owners of a Billings, Montana, venue into canceling a combined benefit for the Montana chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and Students for Sensible Drug Policy last week."

End drug law insanity (June 14, 2003)
"Ninety years ago, the term 'drug-related crime' didn't exist. Neither did drug lords or drug cartels. These were all created by our drug prohibition policies. Not drugs."

Accusation vs. Iraq in Question (June 14, 2003)
Here's another look at the lies used by Bush and others in his administration to bolster the invasion and slaughter by US troops and other military types of innocent Iraqi civilians, not to mention the few Iraqi troops who stood their ground and fought back.

Belgium Sticks by War Crimes Law Despite U.S. Anger (June 14, 2003)
"Belgium stuck by its controversial war crimes law on Friday despite demands for radical change by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld."

US Turns to the Taliban (June 14, 2003)
It appears that the US is once again reaching out to the Taliban in Afghanistan, in hopes of working together to take control of the currently anarchistic country.

The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History (June 14, 2003)
Afghanistan was the most "successful" CIA operation in its history. Find out which powerful and secretive US politicians and spies were most instrumental in supplying training, arms, and support in many other ways to the very same fundamentalist Afghan moujahedeen who US troops are now fighting in that war-torn, poverty and radicalism-striken country.

Germany In 1933: The Easy Slide Into Fascism (June 14, 2003)
"The parallels are not exact, of course; America in 2003 and Germany seventy years earlier are not the same, and Bush certainly is not Adolf Hitler. But there are enough disquieting similarities in the two periods at least to see what we can learn -- cautionary tales, as it were -- and then figure out what to do with our knowledge." This is a most disturbing article, but still a must read during the current political and social climate in the US.

CIA Rejects Blame for Bush's Iraq Uranium Claim (June 13, 2003)
The CIA is not going to willingly take the blame for the huge lies told by the Bush administration to lead us into war on Iraq.

The Dog Ate My WMDs (June 13, 2003)
"Maybe we went to war on a big lie, one that killed over 3,500 Iraqi civilians to date, one that killed some 170 American soldiers, one that has been costing us one American soldier's life per day thus far. If you listen to the Republicans on Capitol Hill, however, this is all just about 'politics.'"

Forged Evidence (June 13, 2003)
"What I want to know is the answer to a simple question: Why did the President use forged evidence in the State of the Union address? This is a question that bears directly on the credibility of the United States, and it should be answered in a prompt and forthright manner, with full disclosure of all the relevant facts."

Upstate sheriffs fight over millions (June 13, 2003)
"Two Upstate sheriffs and state agents are having a very public fight over cash and property seized from an alleged drug smuggler that could add up to millions of dollars."

The View From Liberty Hill (June 13, 2003)
"A South L.A. organizer talks about her community's 'ghost population' -- the men coming home from prison at a rate of 98 a day. Half of them can't read, and most have untreated drug problems. Almost none will find work, at least not legal work. The majority will return to prison."

A Democratic Drug War (June 13, 2003)
"The rationale behind the law may have best been stated by Harry Anslinger, the original drug czar. The long-serving US Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner, in outlining the dangers of marijuana, said that it 'was taken by musicians. And I’m not speaking about good ones, but the jazz type.'"

Congo rebels execute, kidnap in dark of night (June 13, 2003)
"The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than three million people since it started in 1998. Some estimates are closer to five million with accurate figures hard to calculate in areas too remote and too dangerous to access."

Belgium Wavers After U.S. Pressure on War Crimes Law (June 13, 2003)
"Belgium showed signs of buckling on its controversial war crimes law on Friday, after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vowed to block spending on NATO's new headquarters in Brussels unless it was revoked."

Drug Dealing a Growing Problem in Baghdad (June 12, 2003)
"Under Saddam Hussein's rule, the punishment for drug addiction was death. But the fall of his government has brought out the drug dealers."

Mayor slams report on police clampdown (June 12, 2003)
"The mayor organized the meeting and asked Axworthy to be there after Human Rights Watch issued a report May 7 saying a police crackdown on drug users in the Downtown Eastside resulted in arbitrary harassment, excessive use of force and called the police action 'Vancouver's only conspicuous anti-drug initiative.'"

Drug war comes in back window (June 12, 2003)
"Solutions? Bust the dealers, others come in. Evict them, they move and terrify new neighbors. If we legalized the stuff for adults, like alcohol, it would instantly put street dealers out of business and resurrect neighborhoods. But in George Bush's America, there's not even a discussion."

Task Force Funding Cut (June 12, 2003)
"This week 5 drug enforcement task force agencies from across the state found out they wouldn't be receiving funding from the state."

Movement Hijacked by Hiphop? (June 12, 2003)
"Activists Fear a Compromise on Rockefeller Repeal."

Hip Hop Activism Buds Beautifully (June 12, 2003)
"It is true that Hip Hop has to have a political issue or issues to mobilize around. And we got issues; no doubt about that. Well, Russell Simmons, P Diddy, Jay Z and many other hip hoppers are right on point in their effort to address what should be the number one issue to focus hip hop activism – fighting against the failed war on drugs."

Web Site Joins War On Drugs (June 12, 2003)
Narc someone out anonymously online today and add even more stress and turmoil to their life, for a reward!

Venezuela should adopt War on Drugs if it wants to see government power expand (June 12, 2003)
"If Venezuela wants to see government power expand to unprecedented levels, all she has to do is adopt Amerika's 'war on drugs.'"

A Personal Battle in the War on Drugs (June 12, 2003)
"In the back of my mind I always wondered why drugs should be illegal. How could the government, in its esteemed wisdom, not heed the lesson learned by the prohibition of alcohol? But really – who was I to question the all-powerful Feds?"

Medical marijuana leader convicted of drug charges (June 11, 2003)
"The founder of a Salem resource center for medical marijuana patients was convicted on drug charges Monday by a Marion County judge."

Guantanamo Eyes Possible Execution Chamber (June 11, 2003)
"Guantanamo officials are ready to provide a courtroom, a prison and an execution chamber if the order comes to try terror suspects at the base in Cuba, the mission commander said."

Accountability Missing in Bushland (June 11, 2003)
"The administration has led the country into an unprovoked war against a sovereign foreign state for reasons that were certainly overstated and quite possibly deliberately mendacious. It has mistreated detainees after Sept. 11 with a disregard for basic civil rights that worries the inspector general of President Bush's own justice department. But look not to Capitol Hill for remedies."

Senators Urge Congress to Hold Hearings on Iraq (June 11, 2003)
"Two key senators said on Tuesday that Congress should hold hearings on what intelligence led the United States to go to war against Iraq."

Under Fire, Bush Waters Down Claims on Iraq WMD (June 11, 2003)
"George Soros, the influential multibillionaire philanthropist, launched a scathing attack on the Administration. He accused the White House of abusing its powers in response to the September 11 attacks and announced that he would be sharply increasing his work in the United States to redress the threat to civil liberties."

Who's Accountable? (June 11, 2003)
"I'll tell you what's outrageous. It's not the fact that people are criticizing the administration; it's the fact that nobody is being held accountable for misleading the nation into war."

Ashcroft is Coming! Ashcroft is Coming! One Way or Another He's Gonna Getcha (June 11, 2003)
"This is not just a funny story from a blogger who has had too much caffeine. This week, Ashcroft told his prosecutors to start reviewing 25 years of telephone and e-mail wiretaps and results from secret searches--in files on 4.500 people-- and decide whether they can file criminal charges under anti-terrorist laws...And the evidence used against you may be too secret for even you to know! You may be charged with smoking weed, but they may actually be telling the judge that you are sending money to Osama."

Anti-poppy spray kills five in Afghanistan (June 11, 2003)
"Five people, including four children, have died in eastern Afghanistan from an aerial spray apparently used to destroy opium poppies, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted a farmer as saying on Friday."

Six more cruise ship passengers fined for possession of marijuana (June 11, 2003)
"The passengers were caught red-handed by authorities when an on board search was conducted Monday with drug-sniffing dogs."

Decriminalize marijuana (June 11, 2003)
"America needs to recognize the lives that the criminalization of marijuana has ruined, the money it has wasted, and the ignorance it has bred...The prohibition of alcohol didn’t work. Why should the prohibition of marijuana?"

Supreme Court considers case of judge who smoked marijuana (June 11, 2003)
"The northern Michigan judge was indefinitely barred from sentencing drunken driving and marijuana defendants last year after he admitted he smoked marijuana at a Detroit rock concert."

Marijuana jury trial bypassed (June 11, 2003)
"A judge convicts an advocate for medical cannabis."

Marijuana Man's Crime and Conviction (June 11, 2003)
"In his June 5 news story, '1 Jail Day for Marijuana Felony,' Rene Sanchez failed to report that, in addition to the one-day sentence, Ed Rosenthal also was fined $1,300 and sentenced to three years of supervised probation."

Raid nets church's 'sacramental' marijuana (June 11, 2003)
"Phillips, a 52-year-old Auburn resident, says that his church, registered with the state as a non-profit known as The Center for Healing and Spiritual Renewal, mandates the use of marijuana for 'healing, communion, spiritual unity and physical well-being.'"

Blumner: Federal Officials Declare War on Marijuana Initiatives in States (June 11, 2003)
"The drug warriors are nervous, very nervous."

Canada's cheaper drugs anger U.S. drug giants (June 11, 2003)
"America's big drug companies are intensifying their lobbying efforts to "change the Canadian health-care system" and eliminate subsidized prescription drug prices enjoyed by Canadians." Meanwhile, US prohibitionists go after Canada for reforming their pot laws too.

Gainesville College Student Raped While Serving Weekend Jail Sentence (June 10, 2003)
"A college student jailed on marijuana charges was raped by his cell mate who was already being held on sexual battery charges, authorities said."

Drug Plan Rejected (June 10, 2003)
"Deputy Justice Minister Hugh Henry yesterday rejected calls for Scotland to have 'shooting galleries' where addicts can safely inject illegal drugs. He said: 'Drug misuse is a blight on too many communities across Scotland and it is vital that we follow approaches that can be seen to work. There is not yet convincing research evidence that injecting rooms make a difference.'" Does he think prohibition itself makes a difference in any ways but destructive and harmful ways?

Banned over drugs, students back after court win (June 10, 2003)
"Four students suspended last week for allegedly smoking cannabis at a sports carnival have taken Supreme Court action so they could sit exams this week and play in a football grand final."

Seizures of cocaine at Charlotte's airport have risen (June 10, 2003)
"Most of the illegal drugs coming into Charlotte, including marijuana, cocaine and heroin, are mailed or driven in from Mexico. But an increasing amount is coming from Jamaica aboard commercial flights and in the bellies of smugglers, according to a new police study."

The straight dope- Will California capitalize on federal reefer madness? (June 10, 2003)
"Can you believe these guys? After spending billions to make Afghanistan safe for your local neighborhood opium lord, our government continues its ludicrous domestic drug policy of lumping all drugs together."

Drug-smuggling ship 'non-governmental': Pyongyang (June 10, 2003)
"North Korea yesterday said a North Korean ship held in Australia for suspected drug smuggling was irrelevant to the government, repeating its claims that the case was part of a US-led smear campaign against Pyongyang."

House panel OKs drug czar reauthorization (June 10, 2003)

Policemen's drug test starts Tuesday (June 10, 2003)
"The drug test, that would start Tuesday, exempts no one, from the generals down to lowest ranks and even civilian employees of the PNP [Philippine National Police], Bataoil said. He said the drug test is part of the move of the PNP of cleansing its rank and file of rogue policemen who are destroying the image and integrity of the organization."

The impeachable offense- Bush jeopardized troops' lives on false pretext (June 10, 2003)
"Finally, and far too late, the networks, the big dailies, and the national news magazines are discovering that the Bush Administration's case for invading Iraq was a combination of willfully gross exaggerations and flat-out lies."

No Kidding: In Iowa, They're Taxing Illegal Drugs (June 10, 2003)
"Iowa law taxes all illegal drugs, from marijuana to cocaine. The state issues stamps, which vary in cost and color according to the drug, to be affixed to the drug to show the tax has been paid."

Abuse of prescription drugs outstrips abuse of illegal drugs (June 10, 2003)
"Abuse and misuse of prescription drugs is killing more people than illegal drugs are, a new state medical examiner’s report states."

Tomb yields secrets of Tutankhamen's step-mummy (June 10, 2003)
"British Egyptologists may have identified the mummy of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, stepmother of the famed boy king Tutankhamen."

Supreme Court Rejects Drug-Free Neighborhood Law (June 10, 2003)
"The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that struck down a Cincinnati law that sought to create a 'drug-exclusion zone' by banning anyone arrested or convicted of certain drug offenses from a high-crime neighborhood."

Church leader defends marijuana use (June 10, 2003)
"According to the Religion of Jesus Christ bylaws, which can be found on the Internet: 'Because Cannabis brings us closer to God and our Heavenly Father closer to us, it helps us to achieve greater growth of our soul. Cannabis is and always will be a spiritual aid -- this fact is proven over and over again throughout history.'''

Dennis J. Kucinich- Inquiry About Weapons Of Mass Destruction (June 10, 2003)
"This Administration made many assertions, for which they have yet to produce any evidence, about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions."

Ethics and mapping the brain (June 10, 2003)
"Emerging technologies that map the brain, reveal 'guilty knowledge,' and expose patterns associated with disfavored behavior raise thorny questions of law and ethics."

Ashcroft Defied on City Hall Steps (June 10, 2003)
"But right now, Ray Kelly's NYPD is doing a lot of what this resolution tells it not to. Consider the political questioning of hundreds of arrested anti-war demonstrators recently. Also, under John Ashcroft's return to the disgraced COINTELPRO surveillance guidelines of the 1960s, the FBI, the CIA, and other federal intelligence agencies—often in conjunction with state and local police—are violating our basic First Amendment rights in other ways."

Striking fall in addicts' crime (June 9, 2003)
"Switzerland is now leading the way out of prohibition. In 1994, it started prescribing free heroin to long-term addicts who had failed to respond to law enforcement or any other treatment. In 1998, a Lausanne criminologist, Martin Kilias, found that the users' involvement in burglary, mugging and robbery had fallen by 98%; in shoplifting, theft and handling by 88%; in selling soft drugs by 70%; in selling hard drugs by 91%. As a group, their contacts with police had plunged to less than a quarter of the previous level. The Dutch and the Germans have had similar results with the same strategy."

Governments Lie - Democracy in Crisis (June 9, 2003)
"If we bleach the English language and call lies 'intelligence failures,' and (as Donaldo Maceo has said) if 'battlefield bloodbaths' become 'theaters of operation' and preemptive aggression is called 'Operation Iraqi Freedom,' this language jiggering is just another lie. Worse than that, it perpetuates destructive myths and holds corruption in place."

Two Secretaries of Defense Admit POWs in Laos Were Left Behind When Vietnam War Ended (June 9, 2003)
"Among the most stunning evidence is the testimony of two men who served as President Nixon's Defense Secretaries (one of whom had also been the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency). In sworn testimony before Congress in 1992, they said that POWs held in Laos had been abandoned. This bombshell was a two-day wonder. On the first day, the press reported it. On the second day, Henry Kissinger denied it. On the third day and every following day, the public forgot it."

Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs'- Saddam's trucks were for balloons, not germs (June 9, 2003)
"Instead The Observer has established that it is increasingly likely that the units were designed to be used for hydrogen production to fill artillery balloons, part of a system originally sold to Saddam by Britain in 1987."

The War On Drugs Starts To Metastasize (June 7, 2003)
A hard look at the warring in Colombia, and its spreading across the border of Venezuela. This article alludes to President Hugo Chavez not doing enough to stop FARC from entering and basing in his country, giving rise to suspicions that this is yet another attempt to demonize the Left-leaning Venezuelan President who just happens to control on heck of a lot of oil.

'War on drugs' a campaign against sin (June 7, 2003)
"The holy war is upon us, but don't go looking for the men with the black beards. This jihad is entirely domestic, a homegrown product of hysteria and heresy that's far more menacing than a motley mob of misguided Muslims."

'Failed war on drugs' spurs presidential bid (June 7, 2003)
Judge James Gray "holds no illusions that he will ever sit behind a desk in the Oval Office. He just wants to legitimize debate about the drug war, focus a national audience on the issue, and force the major parties to deal with it."

Can The War On Drugs Be Won? (June 7, 2003)
By golly, sure it can. Just remember to report anyone who looks or acts suspicious to the proper authorities. Sadly, some people seem to believe this.

Townspeople want to step up war on drugs (June 7, 2003)
Some people never learn.

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but ... (June 5, 2003)
"When all three major US newsweeklies - Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report - run major features on the same day on possible government lying, you can bet you have the makings of a major scandal."

U.S. Taking Heat For An Afghan Drug Boom (June 5, 2003)
Other than for calling Alfred McCoy "Andrew" and calling his "Politics of Heroin- CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" a "just published" book, as well as putting forth the notion that opium is derived from poppy seeds, this is a most interesting article.

Photos and Links to Ed Rosenthal trial and sentencing information (June 5, 2003)
A great collection of pre- and post- sentencing photos of Ed Rosenthal, plus a large number of links to more information.

Analysis: 'Potential WMD blow' for Bush (June 5, 2003)
"A full-scale Congressional inquiry has been ordered on the use and possible abuse of intelligence information on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

Marijuana guru Ed Rosenthal freed after serving one-day sentence (June 4, 2003)
"Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed 'Guru of Ganja,' walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to one day in prison for a marijuana conviction."

Pot Grower Rosenthal Receives Sentence (June 4, 2003)
"U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer sentenced convicted marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal to one day in federal prison with credit for time served, essentially setting him free."

Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil (June 4, 2003)
"The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is 'swimming' in oil."

Standard Operating Procedure (June 4, 2003)
"But here's the thought that should make those commentators really uncomfortable. Suppose that this administration did con us into war. And suppose that it is not held accountable for its deceptions, so Mr. Bush can fight what Mr. Hastings calls a 'khaki election' next year. In that case, our political system has become utterly, and perhaps irrevocably, corrupted."

Bill would strip states of cash to fight drugs (June 4, 2003)
"Law officers in Oregon, Washington and seven other states that allow people to smoke marijuana for medical purposes could lose $11.5 million in federal money to investigate drug traffickers under a bill pending in Congress."

GOP Pot Attack Stalls (June 3, 2003)
"...Democrats rebelled in late May over provisions that would have allowed drug czar John Walters to use the publicly funded advertising as he saw fit to oppose state ballot initiatives or even specific candidates," writes Daniel Forbes for The Nation as he details the most recent politicizing of the ONDCP Media Campaign.

Simmons says (June 3, 2003)
"Weary opponents of New York's draconian drug laws just got reinforcements -- some of hip-hop's biggest stars."

Questions and Answers about Foreign Policy (and the U.S. Invasion of Iraq) (June 3, 2003)
Anarchie Bunker supplies a script for those difficult moments where one might have to explain the War on Iraq to children or anyone confused about why the US simply had to invade and kills lots of civilians.

Man wins right to sue U.S. government over pot car (June 3, 2003)
"A Mexican national may sue the U.S. government for selling him a car with a hidden load of marijuana, and then arresting him when he tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in it, a federal appeals court ruled Monday."

Guru of medical pot awaits judge's sentence (June 3, 2003)
"Advocate predicts he won't serve any time."

Locked Up in Land of the Free (June 2, 2003)
"With a record-setting 2 million people locked up in American jails and prisons, the United States has overtaken Russia and has a higher percentage of its citizens behind bars than any other country."