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Lawsuit: sicko Sheriff ordered 900 teens groped in illegal mass-frisking at...
A lawsuit is underway in Worth County, Georgia, where Sheriff Jeff Hobby is defending a mass-frisking of 900 high school students, performed in public without warrant or even the pretense of probable...
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PA supreme court: was illegal to steal elderly woman's home because her son...
It took four years, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has finally ruled in favor of 72 year old grandmother Elizabeth Young, whose house was seized by the Philadelphia District Attorney under asset...
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Proposed Massachusetts law would let cops steal your car if it had a "hidden...
Hey, remember how Bill Clinton doubled down on the War on Drugs, perfecting Reagan's haphazard and shoddily made race-war into a well-oiled incarceration machine that turned America into the world's...
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Peak no-fucks-given Jeff Sessions boosts asset forfeitures
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, having been thrown under the bus by Donald Trump, has clearly run out of fucks to give, and so now he's not only reviving the feel-good anti-drug program that convinced...
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An Illinois gubernatorial hopeful will spring all low-level drug offenders...
If Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar is successful in winning the Democratic Party nomination to stand for governor of Illinois and then wins the election, he will: 1) commute all low-level drug offenders'...
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Fake negative reviews are a cheap way to screw up darknet drug marketplaces
In The Network Structure of Opioid Distribution on a Darknet Cryptomarket, (Sci-Hub mirror), a paper presented today at the American Sociological Association meeting in Montreal, social scientists...
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Legal California weed could lead to public banking
Famously, federally insured banks and credit-unions won't take deposits from the marijuana industry, even in states where marijuana sales have been legalized; this leaves the weed industry dealing all...
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Singaporean cops investigate participants in silent vigil for executed...
Attendees at a silent candlelight vigil in honor of Prabagaran Srivijayan — a Mayasian migrant worker who was executed for drug trafficking on July 14 — have been notified that they are the subjects...
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Philippines legislature sets annual budget for the national Commission on...
The Philippines is ruled by an admitted murderer, President Rodrigo Duterte (previously), whose death squads have operated with impunity since he took office last year (Trump loves him). The...
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Prisoners sent to Christian "rehab" diversion programs find themselves in...
Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery is a "diversion program" where drug addicts convicted of crimes can be sent to get help, but an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting...
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Georgia Sheriff and deputies indicted for repeatedly touching the junk of 900...
Worth County, GA Sheriff Jeff Hobby (+1-229-776-8211) had his deputies repeatedly subject all 900 students at Worth County High School in Sylvester to "highly intrusive" pat-downs that included...
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64% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, support legalizing...
The latest Gallup poll reveals that more Americans than ever support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. This is bad news for the private prison industry, which poured hundreds of...
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The crooked Secret Service agent who stole Silk Road bitcoins did it again...
Shaun Bridges is the disgraced ex-Secret Service Agent who pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin from online drug dealers while he was investigating the Silk Road; he's serving a 71-month sentence and...
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Big Weed: ten farms could supply all of America with marijuana
When Washington State legalized recreational marijuana three years ago, it created a licensing regime that was supposed to protect and encourage small growers, but the data shows that marijuana...
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Elite Baltimore police unit robbed with impunity, sold guns and drugs, loaned...
Detectives Marcus Taylor and Daniel Hersl of Baltimore's elite, seven-member Gun Trace Task Force are on trial for years of robbery, home invasions, drug dealing, gun dealing, and worse — their...
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John Boehner pledged eternal support for imprisoning marijuana users, now...
When John Boehner was Speaker of the House, he described himself as "unalterably opposed" to marijuana legalization, a posture that contributed to the criminalization, imprisonment and ruination of...
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Colorado cop corrects would-be dog-slaughtering Illinois officer about...
When I read Macon County, IL K-9 trainer Chad Larner's claim that marijuana legalization would necessitate euthanizing 275 Illinois drug-sniffer dogs that couldn't be retrained and who would be driven...
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114 candidates in Mexico's upcoming elections have been murdered, so far
Alejandro Chavez Zavala was running for mayor of Tareta in the state of Michoacan when he was gunned down following a campaign event. He is the 114th candidate to be murdered in this election cycle,...
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China uses sewage surveillance to detect drugs in urine and feces
Across China, local governments have implemented mass surveillance of urine and feces in city sewers to detect drug use; in drug hotspots like Zhongshan, longitudinal assays of drug residues in human...
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How the NYPD recriminalized marijuana after the state decriminalized it
Back in 1977, middle class, white New Yorkers got frustrated over being criminalized for smoking weed, so they got the state legislature to decriminalized simple possession of weed — merely having...
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