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Armistice Tour 2010 (stage 3) Cape Reinga
Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Dakta Green | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, Events, Information, New Zealand, Press Releases. 4 Comments »
Despite mechanical breakdowns we commenced our tour on time at 11am August 11th 2010 at Cape Reinga. There is no mobile internet or phone access at Cape Reinga so we were unable to broadcast live via the internet but we did record the 11am statement. Here is the raw footage.
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The Daktory Prepares for the next Armistice Tour
Posted on August 8th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Armistice Tour 2010, Featured, Information, New Zealand, News. No Comments »
As of tomorrow, this site will under go some big changes, with updating daily footage and information about our upcoming Armistice Tour. As of Tuesday this coming week, we will be uploading footage from our visitis to MP’s electoral offices around the country. Along with this, we will be broadcasting from our Mobile Daktory each night, so you can be a part of the tour from around the world! Find out when the tour will be in your town here.
The tour will see Mary Jane the Cannabus, along with it’s newly pained support vehicles. painted support vehicles, head from Cape Reinga, to the Bluff, and back up to Auckland, stopping by all of the countries electoral offices to spread the truth about cannabis, and to show support for users around the world.
If you are looking to be a part of the tour, then you can ether help us make some noise at 2pm outside your local MPs office when we visit your town, or stop by at our mobile Daktory, which will be setup each night. If you are looking for more info then check out the Armistice Tour 2010 information page, or email us at armistice.tour@thedaktory.org.nz.
The Daktory, live like it’s legal!
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Opposition To DEA Pot Raids Spreads Across Political Spectrum
Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
by By Steve Elliott on tokeofthetown.com
Two ideologically diverse advocates on Wednesday echoed an earlier call by a coalition of drug-policy reform groups by condemning a series of recent raids by the Drug Enforcement Administration on medical marijuana collectives operating legally under state law.
The Tenth Amendment Center, a group that advocates for states’ rights, and Jane Hamsher, the publisher of Firedoglake.com, called on the DEA to respect duly adopted state medical marijuana laws and immediately end those raids.
“The federal government is only authorized to exercise those powers that ‘We The People’ delegated to it in the Constitution,” said Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. “It is especially egregious when these laws are used to justify raids in states where the use and distribution of cannabis is expressly allowed by law.”
“How many hundreds of thousands of people are going to be arrested before We The People say ‘enough is enough’?” Boldin asked. “The time to end this unconstitutional, immoral, and costly federal war on people is now.”
Under the “leadership” of acting administrator Michele Leonhart, the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in apparent disregard of Attorney General Eric Holder’s directive to respect state medical marijuana laws. Read the rest of this entry »
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New Poll: Majority of American Adults Support Legalizing Marijuana, Oppose Drug War
Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, News. 1 Comment »
By: Jon Walker Wednesday July 21, 2010 10:01 pm
According to a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll (PDF), American adults overwhelmingly believe the “War on Drugs” has been a failure: 65 percent of adults describe it that way, while only eight percent call it a success and 27 percent are not sure. After several decades, billions of dollars spent and hundreds of thousands of arrests as part of the War on Drugs, illegal drugs remain easily available throughout the nation. It’s no surprise Americans say the policy has failed.
With so many Americans viewing the War on Drugs as a policy failure, they’re now open to legalizing the most common and safest of illegal substances, marijuana. Read the rest of this entry »
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Pot Versus Alcohol: Experts Say Booze Is the Bigger Danger
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under Blog, Information, Medical. No Comments »
For more than three decades, America’s marijuana policies have been based upon rhetoric. Perhaps it’s time to begin listening to what the experts have to say.
Speaking privately with Richard Nixon in 1971, the late Art Linkletter offered this view on the use of marijuana versus alcohol. “When people smoke marijuana, they smoke it to get high. In every case, when most people drink, they drink to be sociable.”
“That’s right, that’s right,” Nixon agreed. “A person does not drink to get drunk A person drinks to have fun.”
The following year Linkletter announced that he had reversed his position on pot, concluding instead that the drug’s social harms were not significant enough to warrant its criminal prohibition. Nixon however stayed the course — launching the so-called “war” on drugs, a social policy that now results in the arrest of more than 800,000 Americans each year for violating marijuana laws.
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Washington State Democratic Party Endorses Marijuana Legalization
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Blog, Information, Legalization, Medical. 1 Comment »
At yesterday’s Washington State Democratic Convention, party delegates overwhelmingly voted to endorse I-1068, a potential ballot measure to legalize cannabis in the state. From Publicola.net:
Bucking the recommendation of their executive board, delegates to the Washington State Democratic Convention endorsed I-1068 (the marijuana legalization initiative) with 62 percent “yes” vote (314 to 185). The executive board had given no recommendation on the initiative because “the committee was even more split than the delegates,” according to State Vice Chair Sharon Smith.
The endorsement of the State Democratic Party may be too late to ensure marijuana legalization is on the ballot this November. A petition with signatures from at least 241,153 registered voters must be submitted by July 2nd, just five days from now in order to put I-1068 on the ballot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Oregon Board of Pharmacy vote a marijuana milestone
Posted on June 25th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, Legalization, Medical, News. No Comments »
reposted from www.katu.com
SALEM, Ore. – The State of Oregon has re-classified how it views marijuana.
The State Board of Pharmacy voted Wednesday to recognize pot as a drug that has medical use.
The move came because of a law passed last year that ordered marijuana to be removed from a list of drugs that have “high abuse potential and no acceptable medical use.”
Marijuana will now be what is known as a “Schedule II controlled substance.” That’s a drug that has medical use but still has “high abuse potential.”
Oregon becomes the first state in the nation to make marijuana anything less serious than a Schedule I drug.
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Marc Emery has been locked up in solitary confinement since Thursday!
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Canada, Information, News. 2 Comments »
by Jodie Emery – Tuesday, June 8 2010
On Thursday night, June 3rd, Marc was put into solitary confinement, or “SHU”, (Security Housing Unit) at SeaTac Federal Detention Centre (SeaTac FDC) while he awaits his sentencing in September. The reason? For unknowingly breaking an unwritten rule. I haven’t heard from him since… Here’s what happened.
On Thursday afternoon, Marc had me record a phone call that was meant as his first US Prison Podcast, similar to the ones he did last fall while imprisoned here in BC and posted on iTunes and our website. That evening, as he was writing me an “email” through the Corrlinks prison messaging system, he mentioned that a guard had just given him a citation, said his phone access was suspended for “at least three days” and that there would be a disciplinary hearing in “a few days”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cannabis fines to pay for dope DVD
Posted on June 5th, 2010 by Dakta Green | Filed under Information, New Zealand. 9 Comments »
By FELICITY ROSS – Taranaki Daily News
A New Plymouth man convicted of drug possession has been ordered to help fund a DVD on the dangers of smoking cannabis.
In the New Plymouth District Court yesterday, Reuben William Wade, 25, was ordered to pay $1500 to Waves towards the production of a Youth Horizons Trust video informing youth about the drug.
Wade was convicted and discharged on possession of cannabis plant, cannabis resin and cannabis seeds, and cultivating cannabis.
On April 27 police searched Guru Gardener, where Wade is a retail assistant, and following his arrest for supplying equipment for cultivation of cannabis, he was searched, police persecutor Lewis Sutton said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Marijuana Does Not Impair Driving Ability
Posted on June 4th, 2010 by Dakta Bourbon | Filed under America, Information, News. 2 Comments »
Smoking marijuana barely affects driving performance.
Researchers from Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and the University of Iowa had 85 subjects participate in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial where they were tested on a driving simulator before and 30 minutes after smoking a marijuana cigarette.
The researchers found there were no differences between the performance of marijuana smokers and those who were given a placebo in either the simulator’s baseline driving segment or its collision-avoidance scenarios. In fact, the only difference between the two groups was that the subjects who got the real stuff were more likely to decrease their speed during certain parts of the simulation.
Nevertheless, this study didn’t address the vicious way marijuana smokers have been known to attack their roommates’ bottles of Nuttella. Which is the real reason why the ancient herb must remain illegal.
Source asylum.com