Amanda Froelich | True Activist Everybody deserves a second chance. Unfortunately, ex-offenders have a more difficult time than most starting anew due to their record. Thankfully, certain initiatives exist to help those who, at one point or another, may have made a few poor decisions. One such program is run by Brandon Chrostowski, the owner … Read more
Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project Oakland County, MI — The battle over medical cannabis is heating up in Michigan, and some law enforcement figures are getting desperate to block progress. It seems that one county sheriff has even gone so far as to threaten a lawmaker with violence. According to Eileen Kowall, a … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Reynoldsburg, OH — Officer Tye Downard was arrested while on duty last week by federal agents investigating him for theft and sale of drugs. On Monday, police reported that he died in their custody.+ Downard, a 20-year veteran of the Reynoldsburg Police department, was also a member of … Read more
2016/02/19 Created by Colorlines.com Created by Online-Paralegal-Degree.org Created by CommunityCoalition.com Created by Avaaz.org Created by SafeQualitySchools.org Created by ACLU.org Watch the documentary below to learn the truth about how the “war on drugs” is a political tool the government invented to keep Americans enslaved.
Amanda Froelich | TrueActivist.com A combination of cannabis oil and chemotherapy healed this man’s “incurable inoperable” lung cancer. Now, he’s paying it forward by helping others heal their lives, too. Not too long ago, a 50-year-old man from Illinois was diagnosed with “incurable inoperable” lung and pericardial heart sac cancer. The doctors told him he … Read more
Adam Klasfeld | Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) – Even though the New York City Police Department has sharply curbed its stop-and-frisk program, a lawyer tapped to monitor reforms said Tuesday that more than one-quarter of the street stops he studied appear unjustified. The NYPD began limiting its reliance on the Stop, Question and Frisk … Read more
John Vibes | The Free Thought Project 2016/02/15 Waco, TX – Running from the police seems to a very controversial subject in the media today, with a prevailing attitude that it is somehow wrong or “stupid” to run from the police. However, running from a hostile force that is likely to use violence against you … Read more
For the first time in history, more Americans are dying from drug overdoses than from car accidents. Let that sink in. Overdoses killed ONE HUNDRED THIRTY- FIVE TIMES more Americans than “mass shootings,” defined by the FBI as any shooting where 4 or more people were either injured or killed. While the media was hyping … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project West Virginia just joined a number of other states in proposing to drug test welfare recipients, despite studies proving such testing does nothing but waste taxpayer money. So, a legislator in that state devised the ideal counter-measure: mandatory drug testing for lawmakers. House Delegate Shawn Fluharty has … Read more
William Grigg | The Free Thought Project Disabled Navy veteran Raymond Schwab moved to Colorado last year to free himself from addictions that grew out of the pharmaceuticals prescribed by the VA to treat his service-related physical and psychological injuries. As Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access points out, medical cannabis is an effective treatment for … Read more
John Vibes | True Activist Surprisingly, there are actually a number of police officers in the US who are working to end prohibition because they have recognized that it does not work and that it causes numerous other problems in society, namely crime and gang violence. One of the leading groups of law enforcers working … Read more
2016/01/05 John Vibes | The Free Thought Project York County, PA — A California police officer was recently busted after driving 247 pounds of marijuana all the way across the country. Yuba County Deputy Christopher M. Heath was caught in York, Pennsylvania with a shipment of marijuana that was worth over $2 million. Heath was … Read more