It's an AIG-stravoganza!
Mep Headquarters is all abuzz with activity. By hook and by crook, fellow Mepper Storey and I have plumbed the depths of the internet and restored no less than five buried AIG commercials that can be...
View ArticleAP Tantrum Marks the Beginning of the End of Old Media
Earlier this week in front of his weekly board meeting in the San Diego office, AP chairman, Dean Singleton, cried foul. In complaining about the unlicensed use of AP stories all over the blogosphere,...
View ArticleContradictory Drug Warriors: Muddling Obama’s Message
For those oft-ignored Americans who favor a rational approach to drug policy, Obama’s rise to power signaled that political tide was finally going to turn against the 30 year old inquisition known as...
View ArticleNPR's Drug War Analysis = FAIL
According to the MPP Blog, NPR should stick to disseminating tiramisu recipes and finding exciting new ways to preserve dead orchids. It seems that its policy analysis, especially in regards to the...
View ArticleBefuddled State Senators Debate Medical Weed
The Medical Marijuana referendum brigade is on the warpath.Today it’s setting its sights on Illinois, where State Senator William Haine (D) has sponsored the Compassionate Use of Cannabis Pilot Program...
View ArticleDepleted Border Patrol Looks to Children
Like a hungry stoner scavenging through the kitchen cupboards for a stray graham cracker, the US Border Patrol has found its resources sadly lacking recently. Amidst administration demands for more...
View ArticleDe Facto Legalization in Los Angeles
It seems that Los Angeles will be the first US test-case city for legalization. This isn’t because of any recently passed referendum, or new decriminalization ordinance; it’s simply due to the city’s...
View ArticleMeathead Republican Commissioner Busted
They sure don’t make civil servants like they used to. As evidenced by his 'skills' as a panelist, Georgia’s Fayette County Comissioner, Robert Horgan, isn’t the brightest bulb in the bunch. Horgan...
View ArticleDoing Away WIth "Gateway" Semantics
Anti-weed advocates are slowly being painted into a corner. Realizing that the good old modes of propaganda and fear mongering aren’t fooling teenagers anymore, crusaders are turning to circular logic...
View ArticleObama Budget Whiffs on Needle Exchange
To the chagrin of progressives everywhere, the Obama budget was released last month without any alteration to the 20-year old ban on funding needle-exchange programs.According to White House Spin...
View ArticleFrank Sponsors Bill to Protect Medical Marijuana
Civil-libertarian and long-time legislator, Barney Frank, is about to take the medical marijuana debate to the floor of the US Congress. Funny thing is, he may have himself a fighting chance this time...
View ArticleIllinois Rep has 'Kush' Madness
Try as they might, our country’s legislative bodies cannot seem to get on the same page. The very same week that legislator Barney Frank introduces a bill to protect medical marijuana dispensaries from...
View ArticleBogus Government Study Conflates Crime with Drugs
Ever heard the old saying, ‘You can make statistics say anything you want?’ A new federal drug study is vainly hoping to do just that. In interviewing and urine testing ‘random’ arrestees from 10 major...
View ArticleFox News Claims, "Weed Causes DNA Damage"
Fox News is about the last organization on the planet to willingly affiliate itself with genuine scientific inquiry. Except when it serves Fox’s agenda, that is. That’s why, this week, Fox News...
View ArticleDrone Aircraft to Patrol Canadian Border
Look out, Canadians... Skynet is now online.The US Border Patrol is preparing to deploy a ‘Predator B’ unmanned drone aircraft along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, presumably to detect drug...
View ArticleManiacal British Bobbies Waterboard Pot Smugglers
In the "Countries That Shouldn’t Emulate America" category, comes the tale of six of London’s finest metro police. After apprehending a couple suspects who were carrying a large weed shipment, the...
View ArticleMexican Street Dealers Dying in Droves
The Modesto Bee told a heart-wrenching story last weekend of a young Tijuana meth dealer named Hector Rodriguez Estrada, who was killed in cold blood along with his pregnant girlfriend, by a rival gang...
View ArticleDrug Court Sympathetic to Affluent Frat Boy
Christopher Duncan of Copiague, NY is thanking his lucky stars that he was born a white, rich, child. This week, his lucky accident of birth earned him a free pass in a federal drug court that fell all...
View ArticleTeddy Bears Resort to Life of Crime
DEA agents and New York City’s finest were shocked last weekend to find yet another segment of society corrupted by the War on Drugs — Teddy Bears. In a raid on a Bronx safehouse, police and federal...
View ArticleLSD Inventor Corresponds with Steve Jobs
Last week, the Huff Post published a heretofore little known letter sent from 101-year old LSD developer Albert Hofmann (who passed last year at 102) to Captain of Industry, Steve Jobs. The letter...
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