Bennettiodendron

Bennettiodendron is a genus of plants in the family Salicaceae.

 
Category:Salicaceae genera
Category:Taxonomy articles created by PolbotBush drug warrior crashes pot press conference Nick Juliano

Published: Wednesday July 30, 2008





Print This Email This President Bush's drug warriors must really, really want to protect their ability to throw non-violent marijuana users in jail. The White House sent at least three party crashers to a press conference Wednesday with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who has introduced a pot-decriminalization bill. The Office of National Drug Control Policy's "chief scientist" and two aides who were dispatched to provide instant rebuttal to Frank and the bill's cosponsors, all of whom acknowledged that marijuana was likely to remain very much illegal in the foreseeable future. Given the bill's essentially non-existent chances of passage, ONDCP's Dr. David Murray's impassioned arguments that seemed more appropriate in Reefer Madness were greeted with plenty of