Limbaugh Won't Be Prosecuted, Attorneys Wager By John Pacenti
Source: Palm Beach Post October 03, 2003
West Palm Beach -- Rush Limbaugh's alleged addiction to painkillers may be documented in e-mails. His reported drug deals may have been taped by his former housekeeper. And the talkative maid and her handyman husband could even be willing to testify against the conservative talk-show host. They sure were willing to spill everything to a supermarket tabloid. But the chance of criminal charges ever being filed against Limbaugh is next to nil, say criminal defense attorneys who have handled numerous drug cases. And some local lawyers say they are hearing from sources within State Attorney Barry Krischer's office that Limbaugh -- who lives in a $24 million mansion on Palm Beach -- will indeed not be charged. Read More...cannabisnews...17469.shtml



Limbaugh Ends One Public Problem and Faces Another
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Living Under Bushes
Monsanto's Cliarence
Texass Tom "Coup" DeLay
O'Really?

Pisstasters
Bill Bendit's Virtues
Drug School
D.E.A.th Sale

Flush Rush Buck Fush Ruck Fush

Ashcroft Nephew Got Probation After Major Pot Bust By Daniel Forbes
Source: Salon Magazine January 12, 2001
Although his arrest for growing 60 plants could have landed him in federal prison, Alex Ashcroft was tried in state court and avoided jail -- despite his uncle's crusade for tougher federal drug laws and mandatory prison sentences. The nephew of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft received probation after a felony conviction in state court for growing 60 marijuana plants with intent to distribute the drug in 1992 -- a lenient sentence, given that the charges against him often trigger much tougher federal penalties and jail time. Ashcroft was the tough-on-drugs Missouri governor at the time. Continued...cannabisnews...8291.shtml

Stop John Ashcroft
Stop Ashcroft Coalition
Steamroller Ashcroft
You Can't Be a Moderate and Pick Ashcroft
Ashcroft - Out of Sight on The Right
Can John Ashcroft Overcome His Ideology?
John Ashcroft Outlines Top Goals

Fair Deal for Noelle Bush
Noelle Bush Needs Help, As All Addicts Do
I knew Noelle Bush had a drug problem before she was arrested. The state editor told me. He knew because most of the reporters in Tallahassee who cover the governor knew about it. We are not the mudslingers we are portrayed to be. This was Jeb's family affair and had no bearing on his job, so it was off-limits. But when Noelle was arrested, the family matter became a criminal matter and therefore a story. Continued...cannabisnews...11892.shtml

Jeb Bush Urged To Reconsider Drug Law View
JEB BUSH CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL DRUG COVER-UP SCANDAL
The Drug Policy Alliance
Perhaps Daughters Arrest Will Trigger New Thinking
Governors Daughter Charged with Prescription Fraud
Noelle Noelle

Bush Crime Family 101 : Former insider Al Martin tells all

Bush's Double Standard
The president demands severe punishment for drug and alcohol offenders -- unless they're members of the Bush clan. Knocking the wind out of a self-righteous windbag is always healthy fun, especially when the windbag happens to be an authority figure like the president of the United States. Sometimes, however, the impulse to deflate also injures innocent bystanders such as Jenna and Barbara Bush -- whose moralizing pappy must be mortified by their recent booze busts. Continued...cannabisnews...9969.shtml

The Devil Inside Jenna and George
A Tokin' Appearance By Bush Twins?
Three Strikes and She's Out?
The First Family's Alcohol Troubles
If Jenna Bush is a Pothead, Is It News?
Bush Confirms 76 DUI Arrest: I'm Not Proud of That

Cunningham's Vote to Support the Death Penalty for Drugs
Cunningham son held on marijuana charge (thread)
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune. 25 January 1997
ESCONDIDO -- The 26-year-old son of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Escondido, was arrested Saturday in Lawrence, Mass., on charges of trafficking marijuana, the congressman's local office said yesterday. Todd R. Cunningham, a resident of Pacific Beach, is the son of Cunningham and his first wife, who divorced in the early 1970s. He lived with his father in Del Mar in the late 1980s and spent 11 months in a residential center for treatment of drug problems, an aide said. Cunningham supports stiff penalties for drug offenders and in 1994 voted to make certain major felonies committed by drug kingpins a capital offense. His son, who is free on bail, is being charged under state law. "As a parent, this is the most anguishing thing that can happen to you," the congressman said in a prepared statement. "We love him. If the charges are true, we are disappointed and must face his responsibilities."

Son of lawmaker sentenced to prison

Judge Lindsay sentenced Randall Cunningham to 2 1/2 years in prison, half the federally mandated minimum. Prosecutors noted Todd's otherwise clean record, and his co-operation with investigators.

Dad's interest may have been noted, too.
In Congress, Duke Cunningham has supported federal funding for drug treatment and prevention programs. "He's not just a tough-on-drugs guy," his aide said. "He gets to the root of the problem." Still, Duke has often implied that this is a simple contest between good and evil. In speeches and votes, he has insisted that the solutions -- mandatory prison terms, tougher judges, the death penalty for major drug dealers -- could not be clearer. But the clearest solutions, he may have found in Boston last week, always involve someone else's kid.



Bill Bendit's Virtues * Poster
Bush Religion Initiative headed by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
(Superpredator Kids on Pot!)
Moral Poverty and How to Win America’s War against Crime and Drugs
By William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters



To Fight Terrorism, First Scuttle the Drug War
Priorities, Priorities, Terrorism, Not Pot
Drug Raids are a Waste of Time
Backyard Terrorism
The Drug War - Back To The Stone Age
Criminal Possession Law is Reefer Madness
We Must End theUnwinnable War on Drugs
Chasing Potheads Called Waste of Time
Time for The U.S. To Honor Prop. 215

PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS



Ashcroft Limits Prosecutor Discretion
The Joseph McNamara Collection
Law Enforcement Shares the Wealth in War on Drugs
Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liar's Club?
Cops on the Dole
America's Plague of Bad Cops
Cop's View of the Drug War
End the War by Anthony Lewis

99.28% ditchweed
Annual Ditchweed Eradication Boondoggle Underway Again
May 7, 1998, Washington, D.C.: Over 99 percent of the marijuana eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's federally funded "Cannabis Suppression Program" is nonpsychoactive hemp, reveals a 1998 Vermont State Auditor's report Continued...stopthedrugwar...194/ditchweed.shtml

Drug Czar Seeks To Ban All Hemp Products
FROM: Rep. Cynthia Thielen, Assistant Republican Floor Leader Hawaii Legislature
There are two possible reasons for this action. The Czar may be responding to pressure from the "drug testing" industry, which fears that widespread use of hempseed oil might result in numerous false positives, and to other industries that feel threaten by hemp. He may also be responding to the ideological requirements of the reefer madness crowd, the hard core constituency of the drug war. They are so deeply into the demonization of cannabis that they insist that hemp is just a plot to legalize all drugs. Continued...?P55221265

Urgent Warning about Industrial Hemp...
The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fiber

"ice epidemic" in Hawaii

PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE BREAKING THE REAL LAW
Did we not learn anything from the experiment with Prohibition? It didn't cut down on the use of alcohol - just raised the price, made everyone a 'criminal' and generated an underworld criminal supply system which switched to other illegal trades when prohibition ended and still haunts us today. Continued...v03/n1509/a10.html?1362



The Tribunal of US Drug War Crimes
Poster

A Doobie Witch Hunt
HEMP IN BODY SHOP PRODUCTS DRAWS DEA INTEREST

DRUG SQUADS 'HIKING UP VALUE OF HAULS'
POLICE drug squads are exaggerating the value of drugs they seize in order to compete for a bigger share of government funding, legal sources claimed yesterday. The so-called "street value" attached to some hauls are often several times the real price at which they are being traded, they allege. Recent individual hauls have been attributed values of UKP 25m for cocaine, UKP 800,000 for cannabis, and UKP 3m for ecstasy.
Continues: ...mapinc.org/drugnews/v03.n1413.a08

Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months
Pittsburgh — Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 on Thursday for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet. Continued...0,1,11326,00.html?eol.tkr

Tommy Chong's Web Site
CannabisNews Paraphernalia Archives
Cheech and Chong.com

Tommy Framed?...Tommy Chong's factory, Chong Glass,
as well as his home in California were raided by the feds today. Continued...cheechandchong.com/newsstories.html

UK Grandmother Gets 18 Months Probation For Drinking Cannabis Tea For Arthritis Pain
A GRANDMOTHER who narrowly escaped jail for drinking cannabis tea to ease her constant pain today insisted: "It should be legalised". Continued... ?G5CB53A16

Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail

US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana

TWO SUSPECTS KILLED IN SHASTA COUNTY MARIJUANA RAID
MANTON -- Two suspects were fatally shot by drug agents raiding a massive marijuana garden early Tuesday, the Shasta County sheriff's department said. Two suspects were killed during a gun battle with the 40 to 50 police conducting the raid, said Lt. Denis Carroll. None of the police officers was injured. Four helicopters helped a beefed-up contingent of about 75 police officers surround the area, search for the suspects, and bale the marijuana, Carroll said. Continued...pressdemocrat17pot.html

Rainbow Farm Massacre
[url=][/url] 'WE WILL NOT FORGET,' VOW RAINBOW FARM SUPPORTERS
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1320/a02.html?200
CASSOPOLIS -- A downpour didn't deter friends of Rainbow Farm from gathering outside the old Cass County courthouse at 5:30 p. m. Monday on the second anniversary of the Labor Day weekend 2001 deaths of Tom Crosslin and Rollie Rohm. Continued...mapinc.org/find?200

The Murder of Peter McWilliams
On 6/15, poet, publisher, Libertarian crusader, bestselling author of over 30 books (How to Heal Depression; Getting Over the Loss of a Loved One; The Personal Computer Book; Life 101; et al...), Peter McWilliams, died in his home, asphyxiated on vomit, for lack of medical marijuana. Continued...?O24E11555



In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those, 46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana. There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000. drugwarfacts.org

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)