John Stossel and Kennedy discuss the ramifications of Colorado’s new law legalizing pot use by residents 21 years and older. The move has left the federal government uneasy and still mounting raids against growers and dispensaries.
President Obama traveled to Mexico and blamed American guns for drug violence. So why won’t he blame drugs and the people who use them? Find out on this ZoNation as AlfonZo Rachel discusses drugs, immigration and the real causes of gun violence. H/T PJTV
Imagine you’re a pot reporter. Pot as in weed, marijuana, bud. What could possibly go wrong when you cover a drug that is legally contentious but widely tolerated? Reporter Michael Montgomery finds out the hard way.
Even with falling crime rates and the emergence of new crime-fighting technology, the FBI reports that more than half of our nation’s violent crimes go unsolved and unpunished. Many thousands of criminals are literally getting away with murder: From 1980 to 2008, nearly 185,000 cases of homicide and non-negligent homicide went unsolved.
And yet distractions abound. From speed traps to seat belt checkpoints, officers’ actions often blur the lines between “peace keeping” and “revenue raising.” Those who helm law enforcement agencies are always looking for the next way to expand their purview. And then there are the long-standing, commonplace distractions, like busting drug users, dealers, and prostitutes. Don’t cops have better things to do?
Reason.TV reports.
Gunfire abruptly ended the nation’s largest 4/20 marijuana celebration on Saturday, as a crowd estimated to be upwards of 80,000 dispersed from a downtown Denver park after the shooting began around 5 pm. Two potheads sustained wounds in the dust-up, which some spectators described as being gang-related. Rapper Lil’ Flip was performing at the time of the incident. Police made no arrests but were on the lookout for one or two suspects.
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie joins John Stossel to talk about the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
Drug runners. Good cops. Bad cops. Hot women. Even hotter, souped-up trucks. Shane Smith, the founder of Vice, travels South of the Border to introduce Mexico’s Narco cinema. To add a layer of realism to his reporting, Smith plays a walk-on role in a drug- and action-packed movie shot in Tijuana.
Our nation’s nannies, scolds and buttinskies started 2013 with a renewed hunger to mind other people’s business.
One Florida city has banned dog tethering (even on your own property!) and a Texas State Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) wants to license strippers to dissuade women from going into that line of work. But Reason awards 2013′s first Nanny of the Month booby prize to the northwest nag whose new bill, if passed, would expand the drug war by categorizing cigarettes as a Schedule III controlled substance (along with LSD). You’d need a doctor’s prescription to get your mitts on tobacco products (including cigars), and if you disobey, you could be looking at a fine of $6,250, up to a year in prison, or both.
So Colorado approves decriminalizing pot and now we’re hearing that its San Luis Valley has become the nation’s hotbed for UFO sightings. Just goes to show you how wrong all those ’50s sci-fi movies could be. The aliens don’t want to attack Washington, D.C., or mess with Wall Street. They’re after the weed. H/T Vice
Snoop Dogg a/k/a Snoop Lion, a/k/a Calvin made news after he expressed an interest in teaching his kids how to smoke weed. Alfonzo Rachel thinks that Snoop Dogg is doing nothing more than promoting dependency. Hear why on this ZoNation. H/T PJTV
