"The decline in highly addictive tobacco use was accomplished without any need to jail smokers or further enrich cartels via tobacco prohibition."

"The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the federal and Ontario privacy commissioners have serious concerns about this bill. Are they in cahoots with the child pornographers, too? For that matter, is anyone critical of the Conservatives' security agenda in league with either the terrorists or the child pornographers? If so, that makes for a lot of terrorists and a great many child pornographers. Perhaps Canada is in the throes of a crime wave after all."

"Separating the hard- and soft-drug markets is critical. As long as organized crime controls marijuana distribution, consumers will continue to come into contact with sellers of hard drugs like cocaine and heroin."

"And you have one person who comes in there and videos it. The poor girl can't have one night where she can feel safe in her own world. It's ridiculous."

"A bill that would make marijuana a schedule II drug, legal for doctors to prescribe, was introduced in the Kentucky State Senate last month. The bill is being titled the Gatewood Galbraith Memorial Medical Marijuana Act."

"The Long Beach City Council voted last night to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in the city, but allowed clubs that won the city's controversial marijuana lottery to remain open for four months."

ABC NEWS: "Snoop Dogg’s quasi-endorsement of Paul is presumably because of the candidate’s maverick stance on marijuana and drug policy. During his years in the House of Representatives, Texan Paul has co-authored and signed multiple marijuana-friendly bills that pushed the drug’s decriminalization."

For each shipment the government intercepts, how many make it through?

"A Des Moines man has died after apparently falling from an apartment building balcony as he attempted to evade police executing a drug search warrant. Kirby Praseuth, 28, becomes the ninth person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year."

Celebstoner remembers late singer Whitney Houston's pot bust in 2000.