Citizens dedicated to implementing the Lowest law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance in Hawaii
Big Isle’s pot pulse is sought
But move to get question on ballot may be snuffed out
by Jason Armstrong
Tribune-Herald Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:09 AM HST
Kohala Councilman Pete Hoffmann wants to ask Big Island voters if they support decriminalizing marijuana use, but is barred from adding nonbinding questions to election ballots.
“I simply want to try [...]
Posted in Chronicle Blog by Scott Morgan http://stopthedrugwar.org/user/smorgan Wed, 12/23/2009 – 11:52pm
Anyone can dream up dumb reasons for keeping marijuana illegal, but it takes guts to equate pot prohibition with the survival of Western civilization. Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/libertarians-need-to-rethink-support-for-drug-legalization/2/ shows us how it’s done:
The sanction for alcohol use has lasted for millennia. It has become part [...]
By Curtis Lum – Advertiser Staff Writer
7:02 p.m., Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Two people were injured after their helicopter made an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon in Hana, Maui. The injured persons, a pilot and an inspector with the Federal Aviation Administration, suffered non-life threatening injuries, said Ian Gregor, FAA spokesman. They [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
PEACEFUL SKY ALLIANCE SUPPORTS COUNCILMAN GREENWELL’S EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA December 15, 2009
This resolution 281-009 proposed by Mr. Greenwell has the primary focus of addressing the need to decriminalize the use of Cannabis in Hawaii.
The Peaceful Sky Alliance supports Mr. Greenwell’s resolution. We have specific recommendations for Mr. [...]
AN OPEN LETTER REQUESTING MORATORIUM OF ALL MARIJUANA ERADICATION & HELICOPTER FLIGHTS
December 10, 2009
Dear Mayor Kenoi,
The election of November 4, 2008 which brought you to office also recorded 35,000 votes in favor of a new county law; the Lowest Law Enforcement Priority of Cannabis Ordinance. As a result of these change in priorities the Police [...]
Just when you thought ‘harvest’ was over and it was safe to relax…More helicopter marijuana eradication missions in Puna! It appears that now it is nothing to do with harvest but everything to do with using up funding they know they might not have again. .. after all the funding for these missions are completely [...]
Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana
By Charmie Gholson, Originally published Monday December 7, 2009 on AlterNet.
On November 10th, the AMA reversed its long-held position that marijuana has no acceptable medicinal value and adopted a new policy position [...]
A new set of marijuana laws is nearing approval in Breckenridge, where possession of the drug and paraphernalia by people over 21 is to be decriminalized Jan. 1.
The regulations would make public display and consumption of marijuana punishable by a $100 fine and up to 15 days in jail.
Breckenridge police chief Rick Holman said he [...]
Thanks to a great organization called LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) we will have a visit from this Canadian police officer from January 11 through 17. Anyone interested in hosting an event or inviting Officer Bratzer to speak to their organization should contact Peaceful Sky Alliance or call 808 938 0644.
“Police officers in Canada [...]
We found these statistics for California between 1990 and 2008. They were released by the Criminal Justice Statistics Center & the Demographic Research Unit. Check out the graph below…
This is what the ‘Drug War’ has done to our Law Enforcement’s sense of what it is important to be focusing on. Do you see what happened [...]
