What a long, strange trip it has been helping cannabis law reform activists in Springfield, Missouri. About a year ago, Springfield activists requested financial help gathering enough signatures to place a local marijuana decriminalization measure on the November 2012 ballot. Under the proposed measure, citizens possessing under 35 grams of marijuana would be subjected...
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What recent reforms say about the history and future of American social change Marriage equality has a new catchphrase. As the issue is gathering record momentum in the United States, support for the policy is repeatedly referred to as standing on “the right side of history.” Though the idiom wasn’t coined yesterday, it has...
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The tragic suicide of internet activist Aaron Swartz has brought to the forefront the immense power prosecutors hold over people’s lives. Aaron Swartz decided to take his own life, partly because he was facing over 30 years in prison for “downloading too many free articles from the online database of scholarly work JSTOR.” This...
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The American Victory Coalition has decided to support Tennessee Senator Beverly Marrero for her ardent support for civil liberties. Ms. Marrero sponsors medical cannabis legislation and is one of the few members of the Tennessee Legislature to vote against a same-sex marriage ban. Despite the long odds of legalizing medical cannabis and protecting marriage...
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(The Russ Belville Show News) We’ve covered the Democratic primary for Oregon Attorney General and the Democratic Primary for a US Congress seat in El Paso’s district, both elections where the candidate who was “tough on drugs” lost the race. Now there is a Republican primary where the “tough on drugs” candidate, Mike Anderson,...
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