Tag Archives: Legalization
Free Marc Emery, Political Prisoner in the U.S.
The FREE MARC campaign wants the Canadian government to repatriate Marc Emery from the US federal prison system so he can serve his sentence in his home country of Canada. Marc Emery is a political prisoner, imprisoned for activism and funding … Continue reading
Mexico’s drug war
More than 28,000 people have died in Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s nearly four-year war against drug cartels. The government of Mexico says a majority of those killed were traffickers, dealers and their associates, including kingpins Arturo Beltran Leyva in 2009 and Ignacio … Continue reading
California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2012
Help California re-legalize hemp for industrial, medical, nutritional and personal use (for persons 21 or older). The first step is to place the initiative on the November 2012 ballot. This is important because the current proposed initiative (tax and regulate) … Continue reading
Mexico and drugs: Thinking the unthinkable
THE nota roja, a section reporting the previous day’s murders and car crashes in all their bloodstained detail, is an established feature of Mexican newspapers. It is also an expanding one, as fighting over the drug trail to the United … Continue reading
Sacrifice of the Innocents: Drugs, Money and Murder in Mexico
In Roberto Bolano’s novel 2666, the women of the city of Santa Teresa are being brutally raped and relentlessly killed. The culprits are unknown, but a shadowy alliance of drug dealers, police officers and local government officials is never far from … Continue reading
