Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder has clarified the new administration's medical marijuana policy (see #145) by stating that the DEA will only go after pot dealers who violate both state and Federal law; i.e., anyone not sanctioned by a state where medical marijuana is legal. So dispensaries in California and patients ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
143. Homer, Louisiana police chief Russell Mills, after one of his officers shot and killed a 73-year-old mute black man:
"If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
127. But now, they call it "community policing": from 1947project's always-fascinating social history blog On Bunker Hill, the Los Angeles "Purity Squad" raids the Saratoga Hotel in 1919, arresting 32 people "on charges of living in a house of prostitution." And some alibis never change:
Many of those arrested said ...
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