Nobody is Above Natural Law, Everybody is Above Positive Law
What does history teach us about those who resisted oppression and scapegoating? Were they above the law or just more in touch with the law than their oppressors?
Browsing: LEGAL ISSUES
Hemp Legal in Oregon, Held Up By U.S. Law
Industrial hemp is legal in Oregon but growers say they can't get on with their business until the federal government change its policies.
Medical Marijuana Mayhem
CANNABIS CULTURE - California became the first of 13 states to exempt medical marijuana users from prosecution. Federal law does not provide this legal exemption, leaving patients, caregivers and law enforcement unclear on how to proceed.
Marijuana’s Journey To Legal Health Treatment: The Canadian Experience
For more than 70 years, possession of marijuana has been a crime in Canada. For most of that time, there were no exceptions for anyone using it for medical reasons.
Cops Use Craigslist In Sex-For-Marijuana Sting
A sex-for-marijuana Internet sting by the Tigard Police Department is over because the Washington County district attorney's office stopped prosecuting the prostitution arrests.
Judge’s Gag Order on Marijuana Advocate Bob Newland Raises Questions
Judge suspends free speech of activist Bob Newland by banning his public advocacy of medical marijuana for a year.
Middle School Girls Made to Jump in Underwear Check for Marijuana
LOUISVILLE, KY - On the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of strip searches in the public schools, two young women filed an action in Jefferson County Court against a local middle school and several of its employees for using "grossly intrusive" methods to discover an alleged cache of marijuana. They were allegedly forced to unzip their pants, "lift up their bras ... and jump up and down."
Latest Legal Ease Video
Check out my latest update on the status of the BC3 Extradition, R v. Beren (the Vancouver Island Compassion Society Constitutional Challenge), R v. David Malmo-Levine and Bill C-15.
Judge Arranges Sterilization as Part Woman’s Probation For Pot
A Charleston woman agreed in Kanawha Circuit Court Monday to a judge's suggestion that she have her fallopian tubes tied as part of her probation.
Maybe This Is The Way The War On Marijuana Ends
In 'jury nullification', a jury in a criminal case effectively nullifies a law by acquitting a defendant regardless of the weight of evidence against him or her. Until our national politicians show some backbone on the issue of marijuana law reform, it's one of the only ways to avoid imposing hideously cruel "mandatory minimum" penalties on marijuana users who don't deserve to go to prison.
