City Refuses To Prosecute Victimless Crimes Like Drugs, Sex Work – Crime Rate Plummets
Matt Agorist – In the land of the free, 86% of the federal prison population are behind bars for victimless crimes.
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Will You Obey the Criminal Authoritarians?
Dr. Mercola – In 1962, in a now infamous experiment shown in the video above, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram tested the limits of human obedience to authority.
OCTOPUS PROMIS: The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We’re Living In Orwell’s 1984
Aaron Kesel – I don’t know if you have been paying attention or not, but a lot of police organizations across the U.S. have been using what are known as “heat lists” or pre-crime databases for years.
Kansas City Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession Despite Federal Prohibition
Michael Maharrey – Last week, the Kansas City City Council voted to decriminalize marijuana possession and eliminate all penalties in the city despite federal prohibition.
Legalizing Cannabis Would Greatly Reduce Racist Police Abuse
Steven Maxwell – It’s getting much harder to justify prosecuting people for cannabis when it is considered an essential business in legal weed states.
Liberty Activist ‘Murdered as He Slept’ by SWAT Team Seizing His Guns—Lawyer
Matt Agorist – Because the state of Maryland wanted to take his guns, he was killed in his own home — gunned down in his bed as he slept, according to his attorney.
Proposed Bill to Make Cellphone Use Under 21 a Crime Punishable by 1 year in Prison
Matt Agorist – Rest assured that the tyrants attempting to take away your access to information are doing so “for your safety.”
California’s Increasing Weed Taxes are Fueling Crime, Destroying the Environment, and Killing Jobs
Matt Agorist – The legal scene is far outmatched by the black market and the state government is 100% responsible.
New York Could Soon Become the First State to Get Rid of Private Prisons
Matt Agorist – New York State is taking a bold move against their corporatist private prisons.
Why the FBI Now Categorizes Animal Cruelty as a Class A Felony
Anna Hunt – The FBI’s new protocol now considers animal cruelty as a grave felony.
Study Shows Cannabis 114 Times Safer Than Drinking Alcohol
Marco Torres – We have been led to believe that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug that destroys lives and is a far greater risk than other recreational drugs such as alcohol.
How Should Our Society Deal With People Who Use Drugs?
Tony Newman, Drug Policy Alliance Waking Times The war on drugs is a cruel joke. The U.S. spends more than $50 billion a year on the “war on drugs” with the goal of creating a “drug-free society” – yet there has never been a “drug-free society” in the history of civilization. Virtually all of us …
10 Biggest Pot Myths, Debunked by Science
Paul Armentano, AlterNet Waking Times By any objective analysis, cannabis and cannabinoids exceed the FDA’s existing standards for medicine. Medical cannabis opponents are fond of promoting many myths and misconceptions about the herb. Here are the facts. 1. Medical cannabis is too dangerous to recommend as a medicine The cannabis plant and its biologically active constituents, known …
Fracking Main Street: New Report Shows Social Costs for Rural Communities
Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog Waking Times What’s it like living in a small town that’s gone from rust belt farmland to fracking boomtown? First, residents often say, there’s the traffic. Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with heavy tractor trailers that locals say turn 10 minute commutes into hour-long ordeals, choke back roads and decimate pavement so …
Costa Rican Environmentalist Pays Ultimate Price for His Dedication to Sea Turtles
Jeremy Hance, Mongabay Waking Times On the evening of May 30th, 26-year-old Jairo Mora Sandoval was murdered on Moin beach near Limón, Costa Rica, the very stretch of sand where he courageously monitored sea turtle nests for years even as risks from poachers rose, including threats at gunpoint. A dedicated conservationist, Sandoval was kidnapped along …
Our Justice System Requires Us To Punish Wrongdoers. What If There Were a Better Way?
“No justice. No Peace.” What exactly does this sign mean?
We think we know what it means — that we who want justice are willing to fight for it. The words have a deeper meaning, of course. They are intended to remind us that it is not possible to have a peaceful society as long as there is injustice, because inevitably those who are oppressed will rise up.