War On Drugs Doesn't Go Well, CIA Bugs DEA Agent's Coffee TableSource: The Huffington Post
The settlement of a 15-year-old lawsuit has resulted in the U.S. agreeing to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a "bugged coffee table."
Allison Kilkenny

Early this morning Barack Obama "personally" attended the transfer of dead American soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. Barack Obama is just going through the motions with his pathetic and disrespectful display, pretending to be engaged in a meaningful maner.
Obama issues new medical marijuana rules: No arrestsSource: Raw Story
The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.
The murky world of confidential informantsSource: The Baltimore Sun
Gordon Mehler, a former federal public corruption prosecutor in New York and now a defense attorney who has written a well-received book on criminal law, said informants are "universally despised" but "seen as necessary evil because they provide access to criminal organizations t …

My first mission in life right now is being a parent for my two kids. As a parent I am observant regarding potential threats in my local community.
Ex DEA agent who hunted Noriega charged in $7 billion fraudSource: mcclatchydc.com
The former chief of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office who led the agency's cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for ordering the shredding of records once b …
Colorado's Marijuana Economy: An Explosion of GanjapreneurshipSource: theatlantic.com
What can only be rightly described as an explosion of ganjapreneurship is currently underway in Colorado, sparked by the Obama Administration's new policy announcement in February, which directed federal agencies to defer to state law enforcement on the issue of medical marijuana …

At this moment there are people dying in a war that is off the radar of the average American. A war that is only hours away from Houston, Austin, Dallas and many other US cities that border Mexico, a war that gets closer to our border every single day.
Why we say yes to drugsSource: Salon.com
Resistance to mind-altering substances is futile, according to a new "Secret History of Getting High in America"
U.S. officials raid Jackson doctor's officeSource: The Washington Post
At least a dozen DEA agents and officers from the Los Angeles Police Department entered the Armstrong Medical Clinic in northeast Houston, according to the local ABC News affiliate.

Part 1 of a Multi-Part Series
London, Ontario, Canada came together tonight to pay its respects to a favourite son, and to say farewell.
Or at least, a certain segment of its society did.
Immigration, drug agencies team up on border effortSource: The Austin American-Statesman
It is good to see the federal law enforcement agencies stop having the governmental house divided by turf wars that may have offered both terrorists and criminal elements law enforcement chasms through which to maneuver.
Medical Marijuana is THE new growth industrySource: Canna Zine News
With organizations like Rob Kampia's Marijuana Policy Project rampaging from state to state on behalf of medical marijuana, the green veil is being slowly but surely lifted across America, as administrations begin to realize sending people to jail for marijuana offences is an ine …