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Zeese on the Death Penalty |
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
Should
Maryland Carry Out the Premeditated
Killing of Vernon Evans?
Statement
By Kevin Zeese in Reaction to the Stay of Evans' Execution
Maryland's premeditated killing of
Vernon Evans was stayed by the Maryland Court of Appeals this Monday.
The State's use of the power to kill another human should be a time
for reflection by Maryland and the nation. Do we want to be a nation
of executioners? Do we want to participate in killing people through
a very flawed justice system? Do we want to continue to continue the
cycle of violence?
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From Nixon to Now |
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
A Flawed Drug Policy Marches On There's one thing you can say for the war on drugs: It's consistent. The effort is tinged with the same hypocrisy, dishonesty and propaganda that characterized President Richard Nixon's launch of it during the early Seventies.
Earlier this year the National Archives released tapes Nixon made in the Oval Office during 1971 and 1972. Transcripts highlight the prejudice, ignorance and self-deception that precipitated a national tragedy. While the president appointed a commission that called for decriminalizing the possession and small-scale sale of marijuana, Nixon pushed for an "all-out war, on all fronts," against pot smokers. Within a year marijuana arrests had jumped threefold, to 420,700 from 100,000. And since then, more than 15 million people have been arrested in the U.S. for marijuana.
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Five Years Ago Discussing Reform Of Drug Policy Was Taboo |
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
NOW ENDING THE DRUG WAR IS POPULAR!
Over the past two years voters in seven states and the District of Columbia passed initiatives favoring medical marijuana or decriminalization of marijuana generally and treating drug offenses as a health issue rather than a law enforcement issue. Recently, a wide array of groups, including the NAACP, Volunteers of America, YWCA, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the United Methodist Church and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have called for a new approach to drug control.
There are at least three good reasons for revaluation of our current approaches:
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LA/SF Daily Journals: In the Dark: Medi-Pot Juries Kept Uninformed |
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
Marney Craig is a middle-class white woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of right and wrong. It was not surprising that she wound up on a jury in February judging Ed Rosenthal, a marijuana producer on trial in San Francisco federal court for growing over one thousand plants. She and her fellow jurors noticed from the outset that something was strange about this trial. Almost all of the defense witnesses were barred from testifying. The judge himself took over cross-examination of one of the two defense witnesses. And certain words seemed taboo - AIDS, medicine, physician.
Judge Charles Breyer's final words clearly defined Craig's obligation to the court: "You cannot substitute your sense of justice for your duty to follow the law." Despite her uneasiness, after a brief deliberation, she and her colleagues found Rosenthal guilty of growing hundreds of marijuana plants. The evidence was beyond any reasonable doubt. The defendant clearly was manufacturing marijuana on an industrial scale.
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Why I Am Willing to Go to Jail For Medical Marijuana |
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
On June 6, reform activists organized demonstrations in 60 cities at DEA offices across the United States to protest their continued prosecution of community-based marijuana dispensaries, growers and patients.
The DEA continues its prosecution even though research proves medical marijuana is the most effective treatment available for many people with chronic pain and other serious illness. They ignore seven statewide referenda where the public voted overwhelmingly for medical marijuana. They ignore court decisions that demonstrate that marijuana should be available as a medicine. They've ignored efforts to negotiate to resolve the matter and ensure safe access for the seriously ill. Despite all the evidence and overwhelming public support, our democratic will is still being pushed aside by the Federal Government. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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