Archive for the ‘War On Drugs’ Category

Woman kisses six year old

September 7th, 2009 | No Comments

MADERA, Calif. —  A 37-year-old Madera County woman is facing criminal charges after she allegedly planted a passionate kiss on a 6-year-old boy and then spat on the deputy sheriff who arrested her. Oakhurst resident Krista Arceneaux remained jailed Sunday on $100,000 bail following the incidents Wednesday outside a Bass Lake bar. Madera sheriff’s spokeswoman Erica [...]

When stoners go camping

August 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Recently about six peeps decided to go hang out in the forests of Santa Barbara County, California. For most of us, that’s not much of a big deal. However, for these peeps, the story is a little different: Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s destroying the country

March 11th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Nancy Pelosi promised us a lot of things when she took over Congress.  This was in response to the perceived public demand for change by electing her party into power the previous year.  So far, the results have been ugly with practically no media attention given to why. In response to rising gas prices, which [...]

Four more reasons the death sentence should be mandatory

January 20th, 2008 | No Comments

Ronald Davis Dante Hobson Zarumin Coleman Jasper Frazier The last two are simply charged with assisting in a robbery.  No chance of the death sentence in their cases.  However, they helped the first two kill this person:   Can one person tell me why the last two deserve to live any more than the two [...]

Another dead rocker – Kevin Dubrow

December 11th, 2007 | No Comments

Kevin Dubrow of Quiot Riot overdosed on cocaine a couple of weeks ago.  He’s dead at 52.  Now, according to some, 52 is old.  In my book, 52 is when you’ve realized your mistakes in life and adjust for a happier and more content period of life.  However, addictions don’t allow that.  Just ask Kevin.  [...]

Get your heroin safely in San Francisco

October 19th, 2007 | 3 Comments

This is nuts: City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation’s first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco’s high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility [...]

Pot makes you ultra-liberal?

July 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Here’s today’s headline: Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent And here’s a snippet of the article: LONDON Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous. The new review suggests [...]

Elected officials who really, really, care

July 20th, 2007 | 2 Comments

This is making the rounds, and it’s true: I doubt it really served any purpose. But, I’m fully in support of Michael Polensek in this case and agree with every word he says here. Sounds like there’s some history between the two that motivated the exchange, but what Polensek summarizes about Arsenio is dead-on. I [...]

Pot calling the kettle crack

June 4th, 2007 | 1 Comment

This is unreal. A few days ago, Tonya Bell drove her car with broken windows and flat tires into a festival in DC, hitting 40 people. The CHILD in her car was immediately taken into protection. Tonya Bell, it seems, worked for the Mayor’s office. Today the Mayor’s office issued this statement: “Needless to say [...]

Oxycontin pushers finally pay

May 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Purdue Frederick pleaded guilty this week for “misbranding” Oxycontin. That’ll cost them about $634 million. That’s on top of an additional roughly $20 million it agreed to pay some states for not disclosing how addictive it is. That’s on top of an additional $200 million it agreed to pay it’s insurer for pretty much the [...]