H.R. 5843, The Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults

Zoinks! The Pot Vending Machine Has Been Stolen by the Feds! Click here to read about it

1 in 100 Now Behind Bars in U.S." Click here to read the article

Police Brutality Becoming An Epidemic Articles and Videos Depicting Police Brutality and Taser Misuse

Student Says She was Assaulted by School Cop

A Baffling Texas Supreme Court Ruling Could Make Juries Irrelevant Click here to read about it (PDF)

Religious Leaders Endorse Nevada Marijuana Initiative! Click here to read the article

Government thugs handcuff children, kill dog during $60 marijuana raid. Read more

Serial Confessor The man who couldn’t stop coming clean By Carley Petesch

April 3, 2006 1:07 AM Feazell To Return To Pulpit WACO—Former McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell will preach at Peaceful Rest Baptist Church in Moody, on Sunday April 2, as the guest of Reverend Wilbert Austin, pastor. The service starts at 11 a.m. Feazell’s topic will be “Wake up and Smell the Coffee” from the book of Ephesians, chapter 5, verse 14. Feazell was McLennan County District Attorney from 1983 to 1988. He was re-elected to the position in 1986 while under federal indictment. Found not guilty of all charges in 1987, he then sued Belo Broadcasting Channel 8 in Dallas charging that they had initiated the indictment by libeling him. The suit resulted in the largest libel verdict for an individual in U.S. history, $58 million. In 1985, Feazell also presided over the McLennan County Grand Jury investigating the confessions of alleged serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. It was the longest running grand jury in McLennan County history. Feazell currently works as an attorney in private practice and keeps an office in Austin and in Waco. Feazell, once a frequent guest preacher throughout Central Texas, said he has not delivered a sermon in nearly 15 years. His friend, Reverend Austin, persuaded Feazell that it was time to begin preaching again. “Wilbert asked me a few months ago. I’ve been praying about it and now I feel the time is right,” Feazell said. A graduate of Mary-Harden Baylor College in Belton and Baylor University Law School in Waco, Feazell was ordained into the ministry in 1969 following in the footsteps of his father, Fred Feazell, a life-long minister. Before entering the practice of law, Feazell served as the pastor Dyess Grove Baptist Church in Temple and Elm Grove Baptist Church in Belton.

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Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can do About It. Judge Jim Gray of the Superior Court of Orange County speaks about problems caused by current U.S. drug policies, including an ever-growing prison population and the inadvertent funding of terrorism. Judge Gray knows what he is talking about and makes a lot of sense. Click here to read the article

LINDA McDOUGAL'S STORY January 2005—See the ad that features Linda McDougal, a woman who lost both of her breasts needlessly when doctors switched her tests and wrongly diagnosed cancer. Linda's story is just one of hundreds of thousands more like hers. USAction encourages President Bush to take time to meet with some of these survivors when he visits Southern Illinois. Or at the very least, perhaps he can take 30 seconds to hear Linda's story

IAN'S STORY - NEW TELEVISION AD FROM USACTION Dylan Malone's son, Ian, was born with severe brain damage due to medical errors. The insurance company didn't want to pay for his care, and Ian died before his fifth birthday. One hundred thousand people are killed every year by medical errors, but President Bush and the insurance, HMO and drug companies think the solution is to limit the victims' rights to sue when they've been hurt. View Dylan Malone's television ad here: Windows Media Quicktime

55 years in prison for selling marijuana? Click here to read about it

False Alarm How the media helps the insurance industry and the GOP promote the myth of America's "lawsuit crisis." By Stephanie Mencimer Click here to read the article

Don’t Do Steroids. They Make You Crazy, Drive Off Your Friends and Shorten Your Life!

Insurance Industry Posts 900% Profit Increase While Ignoring Texas Legislators and Regulators Click here to read the press release

Karl Rove King Of Dirt Click to find out more about the President’s dirty right hand man.

Click Here For The Truth About the McDonald’s Coffee Case !!

Click Here For Court Overturns DEA's Ban on Hemp Foods !

That's Not Funny, Man Quentin Hardy, 11.10.03 The marijuana business was generally good to Thomas Chong, one-half of the Cheech & Chong comedy duo, until Feb. 24. On that day the comedian, best known for portraying stoned losers in movies like Nice Dreams and Up in Smoke, was nabbed in a nationwide sweep of merchants of pot pipes, bongs and other drug paraphernalia. Those products, along with small scales, tiny spoons and powder used in diluting cocaine, are prohibited by a little-enforced 1986 federal law. Chong, a naturalized Canadian, was one of 55 people charged as part of Pipe Dreams, a nine-month undercover investigation of paraphernalia vendors. On Sept. 11 Chong landed nine months in jail, one of only two Pipe Dreams jail terms handed out so far. "They mistook my character for me," says Chong. During his sentencing hearing, the prosecutors, seeking a hefty sentence, noted that he was in the process of making another Cheech & Chong movie. "I just reflect society, the same way Dean Martin reflected drinkers." Not so, says Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, who instigated Pipe Dreams. "We prosecute people for the deterrent effect," she says. "Thomas Chong was operating an illegal business, and he demonstrated a lack of respect for the law." Buchanan, who says there is "a multibillion-dollar" trade in drug paraphernalia on the Internet, offered her 92 peers around the country involvement in Pipe Dreams, but only five others took action. Chong plans to use his jail time to work on new material. "This is career-enhancing," he says. "Still, I wish my character was going to jail, instead of me."

What’s wrong with the world, Mama? My thoughts on the Tommy Chong Arrest by Vic Feazell The 25 glass blowers that Tommy Chong kept on payroll made artistic, hand blown, $500 bongs; the kind one would probably not even smoke, but put in a display case. Now Tommy Chong is in prison and all of his employees are out of work. In addition to the one million jobs lost last year and the million the year before that, 25 more families will be depending on an unemployed breadwinner. Why did our government have to put these people out of work? It’s an absolutely terrible thing they did to Tommy Chong too. His life will never be the same. Once you’ve been led away in chains, it’s something you never forget. I know. Tommy Chong’s company made art. I’ve seen a couple of his bongs for sale. They were too pricey for me. There are plenty of real criminals the government could be going after. Tommy Chong is not being punished for what his artisans manufactured, but rather for who he is and for what he stood for. Tommy Chong made us laugh and frequently it was at the expense of this ridiculous, pointless and tragic war that the United States government continues to wage against marijuana users. That war has 25 more casualties now, plus Tommy Chong. Tommy Chong is in prison. What’s the deal with that?

Pat Barber wins First Amendment (freedom of Speech) case against State of Texas. Score one for the good guys. Click here to read the full article. UPDATE: Just Say No To Searches The Texas Supreme Court recently reversed Pat’s First Amendment victory (go figure). He now hopes to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. See a good editorial on the story by Linda Campbell of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. click here

Researchers Say: Pot Does Not Cause Dane Bramage

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Surgeon shocks SC legislators with remarks..............04/08/2003 SC surgeon shocked state lawmakers by saying that Linda McDougal, who lost both breasts after a misdiagnosis of breast cancer, will have better breasts after reconstructive surgery than she had before. The remarks were part of his pro-tort reform testimony. The State, Paul Wachter Do Not Let Them Take Away Any More of Your Rights Vote NO on September 13th

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I'm confused. Is this still America? U.S. raids firms selling items used by pot smokers Ashcroft blames Internet for paraphernalia

WHAT HAS THE SUPREME COURT BEEN SMOKING? An article by Arianna Huffington	Execution™ by AmeriCo Should We Eliminate Criminals That We Are Pretty Sure Are Guilty of Murder! Check out this little cartoon. It may make you think. A cartoon by Mark Fiore
The Unseen Gulf War By Peter Turnley

DNA: Making Our Criminal Justice System Better An Article by Vic Feazell March 11, 2002

Read the following sites if the idea of a “One Pill CURE” for almost any addiction interests you. Why is this drug illegal? Why are doctors and psychiatrists not allowed to administer it under their supervision? Why is it being kept a secret? http://www.ibogaine.desk.nl/junkie.html http://www.ibogaine.desk.nl/opinion.html

Zero Tolerance Give us enough rules so we don’t have to think. AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) _ A sixth-grader has been suspended for 10 days because the 10-inch chain on her Tweety bird wallet violates the school district's zero-tolerance weapons policy. Ashley Smith, an 11-year-old student at Garrett Middle School in suburban Atlanta, received the maximum punishment Tuesday. The chain connects her wallet to her key rings. ``It's only a little chain, and I don't think it can really hurt anyone,'' said Ashley, who maintains her own Tweety Web site. Because her suspension is ``short-term,'' Ashley cannot appeal, assistant superintendent Tony Arasi said. Ashley said the suspension ``lacks common sense.''