war on drugs

A bag of medical marijuana. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

"Demonstrating just how out of touch he is on the issue and denying medical research to the contrary Sessions also had the audacity to call pot "slightly" less terrible than heroine."

A new poll from CBS News may come as something of a shock to Trump Regime Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is working on amping up the failed and disastrous Republican war on drugs. The poll shows that 61% of Americans think marijuana use should be legal, a 5-point increase from last year and the highest percentage ever recorded by CBS. An overwhelming 88% favor medical marijuana use!

Atlanta’s city council is contemplating making a smart move by decriminalizing marijuana possession within city limits. Right now 92% of Atlanta marijuana arrests come from the black community.

New Drug War appointees Chris Christie and Tom Marino have passed and signed well-intentioned laws intended to help curb opioid use and abuse. But similar initiatives have made the situation worse in the past, and the renewed energy being put into the anti-drug task force will surely do the same.

I was talking with a non-coffee-drinking friend recently about having to bring caffeine with me when I travel. "Addict," he said. "Nuh uh," I responded brilliantly. But it turns out that caffeine is surprisingly healthy, definitely a drug, and truly potentially addictive.
Which makes you wonder: if caffeine is an enhancing drug, and it’s legal, why aren’t the others?

Southern states became worried about the dangers this drug would bring and newspapers began calling Mexican cannabis use a “marijuana menace.”

Sunday night, John Oliver took on the attempts by Trumpist Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to reinvigorate the War on Drugs. The segment (above) is worth watching in its entirety. Oliver, if course, is hilarious-- but Sessions isn't. Recently Sessions took another patently absurd shot at the marijuana industry, this time, though, it was directly aimed at Medical Marijuana, which even Trump acknowledges is a fact of life he doesn't want to make a fuss over. Sessions:

(ANTIMEDIA) California could soon codify resistance to federal marijuana prohibition if state lawmakers pass a recently introduced bill. Assembly Bill 1578 seeks to bar law enforcement in California from cooperating with federal authorities in ways that violate the state’s cannabis laws.

This week’s documentary screening, curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE. 
This was quite a groundbreaking investigation and production at the time, which aired on US public television in 1988, detailing the US government’s own role, along with the CIA – in trafficking in illicit narcotics proceeds that were used to shore up the Contra “freedom fighters” effort in Nicaragua.
“The history of the CIA runs parallel to criminal and drug operations throughout the world, but it’s coincidental. Is the CIA using drug money to finance covert operations?”