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Newsletter #2, January 21st to 28th 2011 – I just finished reading a 450-page adventure novel, "Pirates of Savannah" written by a fellow Libertarian. It’s a fun read about the early settlers of the area along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, taking place in the years 1720-1740. It’s a story of struggle by ordinary (but heroic & brave) folk (all prisoners from English jails released to go to the “New World”) vs. the King of England and villainous lackeys, referred to as “lobsterbacks”, “Red-coats” and other harsher terms.

Whether it's overseas in foreign countries like Iran and Malaysia, where drug trafficking is punished with the death penalty, or here at home in North America, where police SWAT teams kick down doors with guns blazing, the Drug War Executions continue.

I got an email from a parent in Shelby Co. who has a juvenile child enrolled in drug court. This parent informed me that the judge (Kramer) forced a drug test on the spouse under threat of arrest "to prove the parents are good role models" and that this is standard procedure in Shelby Co. drug court.

Health Canada provided medical marihuana testimony Wednesday in my trial that wasn’t overly surprising. Especially considering we had read their affidavit and already asked them the questions we wanted answers to in pre-trial. Obviously the agency isn’t going to state their program is a sham. Instead they tried to present misleading statistics.

It was eight years ago this month when my friend Marc Emery first alerted me to the plight of then Alabama teenager Webster Alexander, whose high school principal Ricky Nichols set him up by placing an undercover cop in the small town Lawrence County high school to pressure the kids into selling him weed for his FAKE cancer stricken grandmother.
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CANNABIS CULTURE - Watch Cannabis Culture News LIVE for the latest on pot politics and the cannabis community. Today on the show: News on the global Drug War, Jodie Emery discusses the latest on Prince of Pot Marc Emery, and activist Matt Mernagh joins us by phone to discuss his ongoing court case for growing medical marijuana without a licence.
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