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...anything but conservative Christians, says Jim Wallace, a retired SAS commander who heads the Australian Christian Lobby. "Until the '60s the influence of the Judeo-Christian ethic was quite strong, and that was very constraining for people with counter-Christian agendas, like the homosexual lobby, the sex industry, the marijuana lobby. They couldn't really get anywhere until they neutralized that influence." As a result, Christians have been "blasted and denigrated to the point where they are reluctant to stick their head above the parapet." A counterattack, says the keen strategist, is overdue: "As a soldier, I know that...
...Officers found three people possibly smoking marijuana at 0 Garden St. CPD officers were notified and responded. Officers checked the people for wants and warrants with positive results. Officers confiscated a leafy green substance believed to be marijuana and sent the individuals on their...
...penalty for smoking pot in Alabama is up to 99 years in prison. But that hasn't stopped the Cotton State--along with Mississippi and Georgia--from siding with California in its battle to keep medical marijuana legal. All three filed briefs supporting Left Coast medipot users before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Nov. 29 on whether patients can cultivate and possess physician-prescribed cannabis. "We happen to believe California's medical-marijuana policy is misguided," says Alabama solicitor general Kevin Newsom. "But this isn't about the drug war. It's about states' rights...
Besides California, 10 states have legalized medical marijuana since 1996. Nonetheless, federal drug busters have waged an eight-year battle against medipot, closing down cannabis clubs and prosecuting users. The case now before the Justices, Ashcroft v. Raich, involves two California women with chronic ailments. State lawyers contend the feds have no say over the women's pot use, since no money changed hands and the drug didn't cross state lines. For a court that has expanded states' rights, often to the dismay of liberals, the case is tricky. "Federalism isn't just for conservatives," says Boston University...
...policies run the gamut from the bad to the unforgivable, brought a degree of partisanship to his post, extreme even by the standards of the Bush administration. From his efforts to fight an Oregon law allowing doctors to participate in assisted suicide to his battle against the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in California; from his work to prevent Ohio voters from being able to file provisional ballots should they not go to the right polling place to his help in denying federal payment to non-biological family members of bisexual, gay, and lesbian victims of Sept. 11, John...