Cannabis hemp was legal tender (money) in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more.
Clove cigarettes are illegal?!
Apparently, along with flavored cigarettes, clove cigarettes are illegal as of today. No. Seriously, that’s some crazy shit.
Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession
Effective today, Mexico decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, LSD and other drugs.
The maximum amount of marijuana considered to be for “personal use” under the new law is 5 grams — the equivalent of about four marijuana cigarettes. Other limits are half a gram of cocaine, 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams for methamphetamine and 0.015 milligrams of LSD.
Alan Turing, one of the men responsible for computers as we know them today, was persecuted by the British government for being a homosexual.
My theory is that cops should be drafted, not recruited. After all, the kind of person who would want to become a police officer is precisely the kind of person who should not be allowed to work as one.
Nevertheless, the Gates incident has illuminated some basic, strange assumptions about our society. Cops think they have a constitutional right to be treated deferentially. And black people think cops are nice to white people. Yeah, well, take it from a white guy: we don’t like cops either.
Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers, the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed.
HLS 09RS-1271 Reengrossed
In Louisiana, they’ve just proposed a change to the Constitution allowing people to ignore laws by claiming it is against their religion.
Proposing to amend Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to freedom of religion; to prohibit government infringement of the right of every person to freely express his religious belief; to provide that the right shall not be burdened without the showing of a compelling governmental interest…
Bring that law to Minnesota!
Danger Mouse’s new album: a blank CD-R
Due to a dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse will release his next album (a collaboration with Sparklehorse) as a blank CD-R, on which the buyer can then burn the album downloaded from the file-sharing network of their choice.
Please note: Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to include music on the CD without fear of legal entanglement. Therefore, he has included a blank CD-R as an artifact to use however you see fit. (via Jason Kottke)
