January 2010
US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs' →
genkakuzai:
After 40 years, Washington is quietly giving up on a futile battle that has spread corruption and destroyed thousands of lives.
After 40 years of defeat and failure, America’s “war on drugs” is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy...
“8 in 10 Americans — 81% overall — support allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis”
– ABC News/Washington Post poll. (via greencarereview)
Marijuana legalization backers hand in initiative... →
sunsmudge:
“Supporters of legalized marijuana announced today that they have gathered about 700,000 signatures for their initiative, virtually guaranteeing voters will see it on the November ballot.
They plan to turn in the petitions today to elections officials in some of the state’s major counties, including Los Angeles. Supporters need 433,971 valid signatures to qualify the measure.
The...
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via artpixie)
“President Obama, it is not too late to make common cause with the American...”
– Sarah van Gelder via azspot:think4yourself (via abcsoupdot) (via caraobrien)
“BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - As an increasingly violent and costly drugs war clogs...”
– Latin America rejects old U.S. approach in drugs war - washingtonpost.com
“If there’s universal opposition because the Republican caucus doesn’t get 80...”
– BARACK OBAMA, on GOP opposition to his Administration’s stimulus and healthcare plans, at the House Republican Retreat.
Yep.
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew (via sandysays) (via winterlief) (via mayqueen)
“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying...”
– Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) (via tapwaterjackson) (via xineann) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via snakefeather)
Why Isn’t There More Medical Marijuana Research?... →
yourwonderingmind:
It’s the ‘Catch-22’ that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of medical…
“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
– Aldous Huxley (via simko) (via stranded-wanderer) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many...”
– Viktor E. Frankl (via caraobrien)
Michèle Pierre-Louis: My Pride and Hope for Haiti →
On these streets I hear people praying and singing. And I see solidarity. People are not angry. They are upset because they are totally left to their own devices. The government, which suffered losses, is also traumatized. Its offices totally destroyed, it is unable to provide leadership. An immense international aid effort is underway, but it has yet to touch most people.
Somehow I see a sense...
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are...”
– Albert Einstein (via caraobrien)
“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So...”
– Andy Goldsworthy (via vanmoose) (via intrepidwanderer)
“Creator of heaven and earth,
You are me,
I am you.”
– prayer of a navajo girl - early 20th century (via oceanofmind)
“Intuition is a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via mayqueen)
