Sunday, March 31, 2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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The Murder of Mary Jane

This film will explore marijuana prohibition, the current legal battle to legalize it, and U.S. citizens serving life sentences for marijuana-related offenses.

Why I'm Making This Film

My name is Kim Markou.  I am a freelance writer and producer. Four years ago I battled breast cancer.  Refusing the chemotherapy and radiation, I decided to concentrate instead on diet, nutrition and natural THC, with great results.  I found that even though marijuana has PROVEN medicinal qualities (U.S. Patent # 6630507), our government, steeped in hypocrisy and driven by money, corporate greed and the back room deals of big Pharm, has continued to prosecute and imprison fellow U.S. citizens, many like myself, who desire to treat themselves with a natural plant that contains anti-inflammatory and healing properties. 

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Drug Warriors Cashing In on Pot Prohibition | The Fix

 This is a pretty good article about the revolving door between "Government Service" and private business opportunities for government contracts.  It is a good argument for smaller more fiscally responsible government.

The Drug Warriors Cashing In on Pot Prohibition | The Fix

Monday, March 18, 2013

HIGHTIMES.COM | Pardoning Pot Prisoners


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A new petition asks
High Times has spotlighted the Group Petition for Pardon  for five non-violent marijuana offenders who received sentences of Life without Parole for selling marijuana.  In the interest to fiscal responsibility and civil liberties, President Obama should grant these pardons.  It's the right thing to do.

HIGHTIMES.COM | Pardoning Pot Prisoners

Saturday, March 9, 2013

 This article by Vikrant P. Reddy and Marc A Levine from Right on Crime is worth the time it takes to read

The Conservative Case Against More Prisons

Higher incarceration rates aren't making us safer—and there are better, smaller-government alternatives.
Since the 1980s, the United States has built prisons at a furious pace, and America now has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. 716 out of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. By comparison, in England and Wales, only 149 out of every 100,000 people are incarcerated. In Australia—famously founded as a prison colony—the number is 130. In Canada, the number is 114.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Sen. Leahy: Sequester should halt federal marijuana raids - Washington Times

 Could we actually be getting somewhere?  If we are fiscally conservative and care about civil liberties we should legalize marijuana.  Mass incarceration should not be our nations future.

Sen. Leahy: Sequester should halt federal marijuana raids - Washington Times

A 14-year Pardon Application Process?

 What happens to Clemency Applications?  Very little.  This is the sad story of the progress of a Clemency Application as it travels around the Justice Department.

A 14-year Pardon Application Process?

Monday, March 4, 2013

protesting union efforts to save Tamms prisonProtesters rallied against a union campaign to save Illinois' notorious Tamms prison.
On January 4, the Tamms Correctional Center, a supermax prison in southern Illinois, officially closed its doors. Tamms, where some men had been kept in solitary confinement for more than a decade, was notorious for its brutal treatment of prisoners with mental illness—and for driving sane prisoners to madness and suicide.
The closure, by order of Gov. Pat Quinn, was celebrated by human rights and prison reform groups, and by the local activists who had fought for years to do away with what they saw as a torture chamber in their backyard. But it might have been accomplished sooner were it not for a competing progressive faction: Big Labor.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Barack the Unmerciful

 It doesn't hurt to revisit this piece from Reason about Obam's Clemency.  Seventeen more Pardons, still only one Commutation.  Let's hope they are coming.

Barack the Unmerciful