Humpday Humor: Acid Hits on School Days

Duncan Trussell shares his reason for taking acid in the morning before school...

Clip from Comedy Central

Would America Be Better if Drugs Were Legalized?

Is there any possible way that we could reduce crime?

Harry Browne explains the advantages of a legalized drug market...

*clip from C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Humpday Humor: Beer is a Drug

It turns out that drugs are already legal.  Some of them at least.

The late, great Bill Hicks explains more to CNN in 1991...

Humpday Humor: The Pill Pushing Lords of the U.S.

Florida can lay claim to being the pill pushing capital of the U.S.

Clip from the Joe Rogan podcast

Video Clip of the Day: "Legalizing" Drugs (circa 1980)

Over three decades ago Doug Casey appeared on the Phil Donahue show.  One hotly debated topic at the time was the "legalization" of drugs.

You can read more of Doug's popular political philosophy in Totally Incorrect: Conversations With Doug Casey

What Checks & Balances "The Deep State"?

Peter Dale Scott has coined the term "Deep Politics" to describe the hidden features of the government.  He describes his concept of The Deep State in this video:

The war on drugs benefits the public state and deep state.

The public state of Drug Enforcement Agency, local police & prison guard employees can grow their sphere of influence thanks to "legal" civil rights violations including home invasions and imprisonment of people who grow or trade plants.

No Knock Raids Decrease Officer Safety

Charles Dinwiddie,
killed during no knock, SWAT raid 

A police officer's job is dangerous enough as it is.  Arbitrarily decreasing "officer safety" is foolish.

Safe situation: two people sleeping soundly in their home

Dangerous situation: two people being awakened from a deep sleep by multiple armed men who broke into their home under the cover of darkness

A safe environment was altered to a dangerous one because of an arbitrary edict issued by a politician.  In this scenario the slumbering residents are bound to react to the home intruder situation they face.  Unfortunately this means that some people are going to reach for their firearms and discharge them if they feel an imminent threat to their family's safety.


See this tragic example which unfolded in Killeen, Texas:

Police Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, 47, and Officer Odis Denton, 37, were shot as they and other officers served the narcotics search warrant just after 5:30 a.m. Friday at 1104 Circle M Dr. Apt. 3 in Killeen.

Lobbying as a Cottage Industry

When lobbying the government becomes a cottage industry we have a problem.  Bryan Callen explains one reason why marijuana is still (mostly) illegal.

Find out more about Bryan here and Joe Rogan here.

Smart Criminals vs. Dumb Criminals

The dumb criminals don't work in the same place where the smart criminals work.  Insight from Duncan Trussell...

The smart criminals that Duncan is referring to are people like Jon Corzine.  Since he is "inside" the legal system his crimes are not officially punished.

*Clip from the Joe Rogan podcast.

The "Prince of Pot" is Set Free

Mark Emery, "the Prince of Pot" at his wedding in 2006

Photograph by: Jason Payne, The Province

After spending more than 4 years in a Louisiana jail a Canadian man is back home.

Marc Emery, the Prince of Pot, plead guilty to selling marijuana plant seeds from his Vancouver, B.C. based mail-order house.  Unfortunately for Mr. Emery his customers were in the U.S.

Story from The Province

The Anti-Medical Marijuana Economy

Joe Rogan explains the anti-medical marijuana economy.

Hear more from Joe Rogan here.

The Thriving Marijuana Start-Up

Thanks to the U.S. DEA restrictions keeping the big guys (i.e. CVS, Walgreen) out of the marijuana business start-ups are thriving.  Kayvan Khalatbari is a marijuana plant producer in Colorado.

Bloomberg quotes him:

“We’re making money, we’re employing people, we’re being a beacon of light for this industry and showing it can be done professionally,”  

Should the U.S. restrictions continue marijuana start-ups will continue filling the market need of 1,400,000 legal marijuana users.  

Legal Drugs Can Kill Too

Thanks primarily to steps taken toward decriminalization and legalization of marijuana, the price of the plant has fallen dramatically.  Over the last five years alone the price decline has been 75% leading Mexican farmers to cease planting pot.

According to The Washington Post:

“It’s not worth it anymore,” said Rodrigo Silla, 50, a lifelong cannabis farmer who said he couldn’t remember the last time his family and others in their tiny hamlet gave up growing mota. “I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.”

Even bigger beneficiaries than farmers of the plant were the drug cartels who grew strong over the past four decades because of the U.S. war on drugs.

Also, in regards to the massive boost in heroin demand by American drug users The Post notes:

Although prescription painkillers remain more widely abused and account for far more fatal overdoses, heroin has been “moving all over the country and popping up in areas you didn’t see before,” said Carl Pike, a senior official in the Special Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Do you think there is any connection between mass state interference in the prescription drug trade and high rates of overdose?  In response to this health crisis could we see one city or county nullifying FDA statutes in the search for greater freedom and safety for their sick people?

Police Saving Drug Addicts in NJ

Good news out of Ocean County, NJ.  Police there are injecting heroin users who have overdosed with naloxone in order to prevent death.  In April alone five users lives have been saved by local police in New Jersey.

A Vibrant Philly-area Gang

Risa Ferman is a powerful gang leader in Montgomery County, PA.  The results of a recent pillage by Ferman and other gang members can be seen in the picture below.

Ms. Ferman Shows Off Her Loot 

Seven members including Ferman admit to have pillaged the following items:

• a 2007 Toyota SUV
• a 2009 Acura SUV
• 8 cell phones
• a computer
• Cannabis plants (8 pounds)
• Coca plants (23 grams)
• $11,000 US
• 3 firearms
• bullets
• a scale
• plastic bags 

So who did they steal all this property from?  The primary victims are Timothy Brooks and Neil Scott.

In addition to the loot, Ferman and her gang have captured eight members of what they see as a rival gang including Brooks and Scott.      

Ferman claims that these two young men were exchanging plants for U.S. dollars with willing customers. 

Marijuana, Texas and Law

A new survey from Progress Texas shows that nine out of ten people in Texas support decriminalization of marijuana.  

It's pretty clear at this point the people have simply decided what the law is in regards to the marijuana plant.  The scribbles of dead politicians are no longer relevant.  

Remember that statues are not law.  Law exists before statutes are written.

Law is sometimes codified in statutes but politicians words written on paper are not necessary in order to have law.

150 Troops to Kill One Man?

The Mexican navy killed one of the leaders of the "Knights Templar" gang last week.  The GlobalPost reported that over 150 troops were needed to take out this one man.

So what heinous crime was the gang leader accused of?  Supplying the American consumer with crystal meth.

Save lives.  Decriminalize drugs.  

Kudos to Maryland for Decriminalizing Marijuana

Let's give credit to the people calling themselves "State of Maryland".  Thankfully, they plan to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.  Mr. Martin O'Malley said in a statement:

 I now think that decriminalizing possession of marijuana is an acknowledgement of the low priority that our courts, our prosecutors, our police, and the vast majority of citizens already attach to this transgression of public order and public health.

This is a classic example of the politicians taking forever to catch up to the people.

It was 42 years ago that Milton Friedman wrote a column for Newsweek titled "Prohibition and Drugs".  In it Friedman said:

Whatever happens to the number of addicts, the individual addict would clearly be far better off if drugs were legal. Today, drugs are both incredibly expensive and highly uncertain in quality. Addicts are driven to associate with criminals to get the drugs, become criminals themselves to finance the habit, and risk constant danger of death and disease.

The same logic that Friedman applied here should be extended to the argument for the decriminalization of sex.  Individuals involved in the exchange for sex (like drugs) will be far safer and healthier if the act of simply doing business wasn't a crime.