California has earned a reputation for high taxes. Yet, this week there is a sign of hope for tax resistance in the state legislature. On Monday, the California Assembly voted unanimously to delay by five years a tax increase that had been set to go into effect on...
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The Big Fall in the US Government’s Marijuana Arrests since States Started Legalizing
by Adam Dick | Mar 28, 2025 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Marijuana is still illegal under United States law, as it was before the waves through states to first legalize marijuana for medical use and then adopt, starting in 2012, “recreational marijuana” legalization. Faced with this expanding of respect for free choice, the...
Why Conservative Christians Oppose Marijuana Ballot Initiatives
by Laurence M. Vance | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist churches in Florida are rejoicing and thanking God that Amendment 3 on the Florida ballot to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was rejected by Florida voters. Although a majority of people in Florida did vote in...
Two Years into His Drug War that Continues Today, Nixon Privately Stated that Marijuana is ‘Not Particularly Dangerous’
by Adam Dick | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
A newly reported on March of 1973 recording of a private conversation of then President Richard Nixon with some of his executive branch aides includes Nixon commenting that marijuana is “not particularly dangerous.” He also stated that penalties related to marijuana...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Misnamed Florida Freedom Fund
by Adam Dick | Jun 11, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Politico reported Monday that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has started the Florida Freedom Fund. That news by itself sounds promising considering DeSantis has taken significant action in the state to advance freedom, including resisting the imposing of coronavirus...
President Joe Biden’s Underwhelming Marijuana Reform Accomplishments
by Adam Dick | May 22, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In October of 2022, I wrote about the underwhelming nature of President Joe Biden’s pardons for some people convicted of marijuana offenses. What Biden proclaimed was a big rollback in the war on marijuana was really much less. The same goes for the new effort by the...
Expunging Millions of Marijuana Records in America
by Adam Dick | Jan 27, 2024 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Earlier this month, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) related that its tabulating of state court actions across America has produced the estimate that, since 2018, state courts have expunged, or sealed, marijuana-related records from...
40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
When I read an article yesterday by a man named Edwin Rubis, I sat there, shook my head, and asked myself how any government could do such a thing to anyone. The reason that Rubis’s article caught my attention is captured in the title of his article: “I’m Serving 40...
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