Saying 77

Complicit enablers then, complicit apologists now

h/t John Amato.

From Mars, with love

White speck on Martian horizon

h/t

Trees are renewable, but hemp is sustainable

Doing the same thing expecting a different result doesn’t work

Pete Guither is rightly disappointed in Barack Obama, who said in Miami a few days ago:

When I am President, we will continue the Andean Counter-Drug Program, and update it to meet evolving challenges. [...]

Mexican drug cartels are terrorizing cities and towns. President Calderon was right to say that enough is enough. We must support Mexico’s effort to crack down. [...]

And we’ll tie our support to clear benchmarks for drug seizures, corruption prosecutions, crime reduction, and kingpins busted. [...]

We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border. [...]

And we’ll crack down on the demand for drugs in our own communities, and restore funding for drug task forces and the COPS program.

These are the same tired old policies that don’t work, Barack.

It’s time for an end to the War on Drugs mentality. For all the victims it creates, it does not reduce drug abuse, but increases the attendant harms. We should instead seek to reduce harm with our public policy.

Patenting poisoned populations for profit

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h/t Monkeyfister.

Are you Round-Up ready?

Too many people have died.

Unacceptable

Phoenix touchdown

Yay!

An ex-Republican alternative to John McCain for president

The Libertarian party has nominated Bob Barr for president.

He is completely unqualified for the office, and should not be elected. Nevertheless, I hope he will be invited to participate in debates with Barack Obama and John McCain. I am presuming the Democratic nomination, at this point, but I will allow that there exists some minuscule probability that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, in which case sharing a stage with one of the chief impeachment prosecutors of Bill Clinton seems unlikely.

But for the record I’d like to see the Green nominee included in debates as well.

What happens when the Freewayblogger goes to Phoenix?

This.

h/t skippy.

All hail the Freewayblogger.

Safest medicine on the planet

Pete Guither:

Apparently people are having complicated and heated discussions regarding how much marijuana a medical marijuana patient should be allowed to possess.

I find it difficult to get very interested in that debate, although I understand that it’s important for the patients.

Here’s what I do think, however.

1. Law enforcement does not have a dog in this race. The patient can have a valid opinion. So can the doctor. But not the cop.
2. It seems to me that the amount that a patient is allowed to have should be at least the amount that the patient needs. Since that varies for each patient, there should be no set limit.
3. If you really have to set a limit, then I’d decide it based on safety and place it just under the amount that would cause a fatal overdose*. That way, you wouldn’t have to worry about anyone getting hurt.

All reserves borrowed, and borrowed all reserves

h/t Monkeyfister.

Cannabis treats glioma

Read more.

Best wishes for Ted Kennedy and his family.

For what it’s worth

How’s it gonna be?

Barack star visits Portland

75,000 people.

h/t Creature.

The Forked-Tongue Express

Godspeed you

And, lo, it was waste and void;

Huckabee “jokes” about lynching of Barack Obama

h/t Petulant for the screen capture of the wholly inadequate non-apology.

Update: May 18, Huckabee makes a better apology.

Shadows

George Bush Godwins the Knesset

Larisa Alexandrovna writes a letter.

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Related post:

• Godwin’s law suspended for the duration of the present emergency.

Barack Obama does not let Republican liars tarnish him

h/t Creature.

Do you know what year it is, sir?

h/t Oliver Willis.

Stoopid Republican’t

New name for the old party.

Planet Earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do

Fafblog interviews Hillary Clinton

Read it here.

Just let’s all live and live, you know, instead of killing

h/t Charley.

I am that which you are

Ending the war on medical patients

SFChron:

In response to recent questions from The Chronicle about medical marijuana, Obama’s campaign – the only one of the three contenders to reply – endorsed a hands-off federal policy.

“Voters and legislators in the states – from California to Nevada to Maine – have decided to provide their residents suffering from chronic diseases and serious illnesses like AIDS and cancer with medical marijuana to relieve their pain and suffering,” said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.

“Obama supports the rights of states and local governments to make this choice – though he believes medical marijuana should be subject to (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) regulation like other drugs,” LaBolt said. He said the FDA should consider how marijuana is regulated under federal law, while leaving states free to chart their own course

LaBolt also said Obama would end U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids on medical marijuana suppliers in states with their own laws.

Temporary and eternal

Heard through telegraph line

Waiting to inhale

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Sympathetic vibration

Resonance

Natural suction

What does an Anti-Christ sound like?

Hillary Clinton for Secretary of Health and Human Services

Seriously. This is a good offer, if I had any authority to make one. You can really help America straighten out its health care system if you’d want to be on the team, and you can certainly help us build up the Democratic nominee in West Virginia and Kentucky rather than tearing him down.

Update: never mind.

‘Til Tuesday