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Medical Marijuana Comedy Club: The Oregonian Prints Reefer Madness!

What good is a live brain with a dead body?

(PORTLAND, OR) - I don't know whether to be astonished any more about The Oregonian's pathetically inane remarks about the hazards of medical marijuana.

They were doing reasonably well printing about the seven-year old girl with leukemia whose life was being preserved by the use of medical marijuana.

Supreme Court Ruling Affirms the Right to Videotape the Police

Illinois' eavesdropping law is one of the harshest in the country...

(CHICAGO Chicago Tribune) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a controversial Illinois law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job.

Even audio recording of an officer on duty or in public, is a felony punishable by 15 years in prison.

Sri Lanka: Arbitrary Arrest of Human Rights Defender Mr Sanjeewa Samarasinghe

As long as governments place restrictions on journalism, then their problems will never even begin to change.

(SALEM) - If there is one thing that troubles reporters, it is threat against and harming of, other media professionals.

Sri Lanka has a history of harassing, harming, threatening and murdering journalists, to put it mildly.

Demand AP Clarify Warmongering Report

The AP is read by millions around the world. This single news report will have a serious impact on the debate on Iran and questions about war and peace.

(NEW YORK) - This week, the Associated Press (AP) ran an “exclusive” story claiming to uncover bombshell evidence in support of war with Iran. The evidence? A crude, hand drawn graph.

The AP should have higher journalistic standards than The Onion.

AATA Revises Unconstitutional Advertising Policy But Says Anti-Israel Ads Still Won`t be Allowed

The ACLU has argued that a governmental entity cannot censor speech just because it is controversial, unpopular or stirs people's emotions.

(ANN ARBOR Michigan ) - The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority's board of directors held a special meeting Thursday to revise the agency's advertising policy after a federal judge declared parts of it unconstitutional.

But the agency maintains an anti-Israel advertisement calling for a boycott of Israel — what originally prompted a legal debate over the agency's policy — still won't be allowed on its buses.

Marijuana: Safe for Children
Toxicologist Critiques the Critique

Dr. Leveque is a Professor of Pharmacology and a Forensic Toxicologist.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Oregonian newspaper has printed an extensive number of articles about marijuana as medicine.

However it continues to add false, negative comments which have no credibility in view of the fact that thousands of patients in Oregon and millions throughout the US use marijuana safely and effectively for dozens of diseases.

Brazilian Elevator Ghost Scares People Half to Death!

One elevator ride that won't soon be forgotten...

(RIO DE JANEIRO) - Here is something you would never see on American television, and possibly for good reason. It is a Brazilian 'ghost prank' TV show and I have to say, I feel sorry for the unwitting contestants!

Talk about having the you-know-what scared out of you, particularly in a country that is largely Catholic and superstitious...

CAIR Repudiates Egypt `Blasphemy` Death Sentences

CAIR had previously called on Muslims in the Middle East to ignore the distribution of the "trashy" anti-Islam film...

(WASHINGTON DC) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations, today repudiated death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court for charges linked to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" that attacked the Prophet Muhammad.

An Egyptian court reportedly found the defendants, most of whom live in the US, guilty of harming national unity...

Don`t Undermine a Cornerstone of our Democracy

The press should not be subject to statutory regulation, 86 MPs support protecting the press’s freedom.

(LONDON Refugee News Network) - Dozens of MPs and peers, including nine former Cabinet ministers, today urge David Cameron to resist laws which would shackle Britain’s 300-year-old free Press.

SIR, With the publication of the Leveson Report on Thursday it is clear that the central issue will be whether the press should, for the first time, be subjected to statutory regulation...

2nd Death Anniversary of Journalist Subramaniam Sivanayagam

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” -- Isaac Asimov

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - Two years ago Mr Subramaniam Sivanayagam known as ‘Iyah’, editor of “Hot Spring”, “Tamil Nation” and “Saturday Review”, passed away.