via the Kelley Vlahos podcast: “The U. S. government was spraying Paraquat – poison – On marijuana crops abroad and some of that marijuana was imported in the U. S. and poisoned people here. Then the government started spraying the marijuana crops in the national parks and other places. And, it was similar to what […]
In the early 1970s, Louisiana imposed a death penalty for marijuana violation. OK, it wasn’t technically a death sentence from judicial sentencing. Instead, it was open season to go after any purported pothead. Brian Wilson was a top radio host in Baton Rouge in 1971 when Elton John came to Louisiana on a concert tour. […]
My 40 Year War on Reefer Madness by Jim Bovard | June 26, 2023 Libertarian Institute Forty years ago last week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner published my first attack on the federal drug war. The previous year, the Reagan administration unleashed its “Just Say No” program, vilifying anyone who smoked a joint, sniffed the […]
The latest “Something Completely Different” weekly podcast with Brian Wilson – It’s time for the latest episode of The Week So Far — Brian and Jim take a look at how politicians and the media are treating the January 6th “Tucker” tapes (the surveillance video from the Capitol given to Tucker Carlson), how the public […]
Libertarian Institute My Convict Road Gang Summer by Jim Bovard | Feb 17, 2020 I may have been a rube, but I knew enough not to startle the gargantuan glowering prison guard with that double-barreled shotgun propped on his beer belly. As a sixteen-year-old toiling in the hot sun in 1973 alongside convicts on a […]
USA TODAY, December 12, 2014 Government by Cromnibus – blind, deaf and dumb: Column by James Bovard The Know-Nothing Party Rules Us All “You can lead a man to Congress but you can’t make him think,” quipped Milton Berle in 1950. Last night’s House of Representatives’ approval of the 1,603 page, $1 trillion Cromnibus bill […]
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my article on the Supreme Court ruling on medical marijuana. The articles begins – Earlier this year [2005], the Supreme Court, acting again like a gang that smoked too much bad weed, ruled that the federal government has the right to prohibit people from growing marijuana for medicinal purposes. The […]
