Couple Had Their 2-year-old Daughter Stolen from Them for “Smoking Pot.”

A little girl was confiscated from her loving parents because they smoked marijuana. Hill’s two-year-old daughter Alex,  short for Alexandria, was removed from her parent’s home last November for “neglectful supervision” following her parents’ admission that they smoked pot after she was put to bed, reported KVUE.

“We never hurt our daughter. She was never sick, she was never in the hospital, and she never had any issues until she went into state care,” Hill told KVUE. This is a truly heartbreaking example of the state’s atrocious ‘war on drugs.’ The war on drugs is nothing more than a license to destroy innocent lives. To all those who enforce such immoral and unjust laws against humanity, how can you sleep at night?

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Mother convicted over cannabis in breast milk

A woman has been convicted of giving cannabis to her 3-month old baby through her breast milk, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in New Zealand.

The 29-year-old Wanganui woman was charged with administering a class C controlled drug, namely cannabis, to a person under the age of 18. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced in Wanganui District Court last week to six months' supervision.

The charges were laid after a police search of a house for drugs. The woman's partner also faced charges over the drug raid. Acting Senior Sergeant Andrew McDonald said the woman's actions amounted to child abuse. "People often believe drug-related activities are victimless, but it affects the people around them." Adults making bad choices affected the most vulnerable in the community, and it was not okay to affect children by those choices, Mr McDonald said. "We need to take the children's needs into consideration."

University of Auckland law Professor Warren Brookbanks said the case was almost certainly the only one of its kind in New Zealand. It was unlikely to have been successful if the woman had not pleaded guilty because it would be very difficult to prove that the woman had deliberately administered cannabis to her baby through her breast milk.

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Former Mexican president on California marijuana legalization: ‘May God let it pass’

In California's battle to legalize marijuana, former Mexican President Vicente Fox has picked a side, announcing in a recent radio interview that he favors Prop. 19.

"How great it would be for California to set this example," he said, speaking to the W radio network on Wednesday. "May God let it pass. The other U.S. states will have to follow step." The quote was first snagged stateside by McClatchy Newspapers.

The former president also criticized his successor's violent campaign against the drug cartels, suggesting that the country's path has been ultimately destructive.

"Violence never resolves violence," he said.

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American Drug War - The Last White Hope

The film "American Drug War - The Last White Hope" has won three consecutive awards for “Best Feature Length Documentary." In late spring of 2007, Kevin signed with Page Ostrow of Ostrow & Company who secured “American Drug War” a deal with the Showtime cable network (CBS). In November of 2007, "American Drug War" was honored at the 2007 [Artivist] Awards Ceremony as the Best Feature Film in the International Human Rights category. American Drug War is Kevin's debut as a narrator and the first of a series of films that will build on his ability to untangle the myths and present serious subjects with a dry wit and eye for the absurd.

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