CANNABIS CULTURE - Pot activist David Malmo-Levine, founder of the Vancouver Herb School, has been slugging it out with Canadian authorities and fighting for plant freedoms in a B.C. courtroom.
Jack's awake and out of ICU. He's not talking yet or moving around much. He starts physical therapy on Monday. I just want to thank everyone so much for all the prayers and good wishes. They really seem to be working. Progress will probably be slow so please keep it up.
CANNABIS CULTURE - A Constant Vigil for marijuana activist Marc Emery is being held at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre, and continues for 24 hours a day, every day until he is free.
The Bush administration sold the PATRIOT Act's expansion of law enforcement powers, including "sneak and peek" searches in which the target of the search is never notified that his home has been searched, as necessary to defend the citizens of the US from terrorist attacks, but that's not how federal law enforcement has used its sweeping new powers.