Tag: War on Drugs
The Man Everyone Forgot.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 12:48:18 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Joseph Shepard could be a candidate for poster child for the Sixth Amendment Society, should such a society ever be formed. He's been sitting in a jail cell in Jennings, Missouri waiting to have his drug case resolved in court. He's been waiting for almost two years, most of it spent in his cell 23 hours out of each 24 hour day. He's been forgotten by the system.
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This War On Drugs Is For Suckers
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat May 10, 2008 at 10:41:31 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
America's drug warriors never seem to tire in their quest to have something to get their bowels in an uproar. It's not enough that they seem intent on creating another "illegal drug" they can prosecute. Although, they might have an argument here - the use of Salvia divinorum does produce hallucinations (although not addictions). But our drug warriors are now onto another insidious drug-related threat to America. This substance doesn't produce highs, lows, or much of anything beyond potential tooth decay. No, the main thing about this substance is that the damned pot suckers taste just like weed.
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You Have The Right To An Attorney, But You'll Just Have To Pay For One Yourself, You Crackhead.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Apr 24, 2008 at 06:48:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Anyone who's seen any crime dramas knows that criminal suspects have the right to an attorney and if you can't afford one, the government has to provide you with one. But those rights end once you've been convicted and sentenced for a crime, unless you can find a lenient judge. This is the dilemma facing a number of federal prisoners, largely poor and uneducated people in jail for crack offenses, who are finding it almost impossible to get the legal help they need to deal with their appeals.
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Follow the rules you'll have mad bread to break up not 15 19 years on the wakeup
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 05:18:10 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
After a monumental Supreme Court decision regarding sentencing disparity in Cocaine vs. Crack sentencing in December, the first inmates walked out of prison free men on Monday.
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Cocaine -- The Legal (If Not Objectionable) Alternative.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 11:54:38 PM EST. RSS.
Cocaine can be legally bought in the US. No, not the powdery white nose candy from Colombia. This Cocaine is an energy drink available in 8.4 fluid ounce containers. Although there's not a trace of an illegal substance in it, it does manage to sock a bunch of caffeine into each serving. According to the president of the company which sells the stuff, the only way to get more caffeine per ounce is to have an espresso. Despite its energy-spiking abilities and its legal content, the name of the drink is enough to make some merchants think twice about selling it.
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Mississippi Mayor -- Man Of The People Or Elected Thug?
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Sep 26, 2006 at 07:05:35 PM EST. RSS.
When you live in a city riddled with crime and swimming in drugs, you look to civic leadership for a way out. So it goes for the citizens of Jackson, Mississippi. They looked to their mayor for a way of waging war against the drug dealers and violence which accompanied them. His honor, Frank Melton, answered the call with a no-nonsense, kick-ass sense of mission. Going on drug raids, conducting roadblocks, donning police garb and packing a gun, he became the scourge of the Jackson drug underworld. However, some claim their elected civic leader has become a vigilante. At least that's what the Hind County prosecutor's office says when they produced multiple felony indictments against him which might result in him spending the next 50 years behind bars.
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