Cannabis Freedom

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I’ve been working feverishly getting the new and improved Cannabis Freedom blog up and running. Ta Da, here it is! I’ve converted most of my posts and services from my Blogger account. If you’re already subscribed via email, RSS or ATOM, you don’t need to make any changes, Feedburner handles my feeds. If you normally go to Blogspot to read my posts, go to Cannabis Freedom instead.

I wanted to make these drastic changes in order to control my own destiny. I found myself to be at the mercy of Blogger’s limitations. Now that I own my own domain the potential is limitless. I also wanted this blog to be about cannabis and our re-legalization movement, and not so much about me, Ganja Blue. I’m still looking for activists, writers, musicians and photographers that would like to contribute original work to our effort here.

I’ve chosen Wordpress for my blogging engine and I’m really happy with it so far. Webhosting is provided by NearlyFreeSpeech which gives me the privacy I need at a cost I can live with. If you visit Cannabis Freedom from you mobile device you’ll find that the template is much more readable already.

Great New Features:

1. Mobile friendlier - Visit on your iPhone, PDA, or Cell phone to try
2. New Tag Cloud
3. Faster page loading
4. Enhanced privacy
5. More post options
6. Improved spam control

I’ll be working on the site template next. I you have suggestions for any features you’d like to see implemented, please email me. As always I’m looking for other Marijuana Activists to collaborate, trade links, and guest posts.

I wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow, September 13, is the big Southern Heritage Classic game at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. The tailgate parties have already started, and from what I hear, it's the biggest party in Memphis.

The annual Cooper-Young Festival is also tomorrow . Over 300 artisans are displaying their works and over 80,000 people are expected to pass through.

Update: Citizens To Preserve Overton Park will be at the C-Y Festival at booth D31 in the First Congregational Church parking lot. CPOP will have organic cotton Save the Old Forest t-shirts for a $10 donation.

If going out isn't your thing and you have Comcast cable, you can always stay in and watch the University of Memphis Tigers play the the Thundering Herd of Marshal on CSS tomorrow at 6 pm. The Tigers are looking for their first win this season, and if we can't do it against Marshal then God help us.

• Matt Welch at Reason asks, "Where are the Democrats on civil liberties?" Good question.
• Hicktown lawyer points out that McCain has never had to work a day in his life.
• MPD Enforcer says Memphis Police Department's disciplinary system is broken. It's certainly not effective.
• Cuban refugees take note, Junk raft made of plastic bottles sails the Pacific.
• An ABC News reporter in Denver has been arrested for videotaping Senators with lobbyist. So much for the First Amendment. I'd say a fundamental flaw of the Constitution is that it doesn't require Congress to punish those who violate it.
• Jacksonville SuperBitch Laura Capitano, calls Memphis "Nashville's dirty, drunken cousin" and slanders the Beale Street Flippers.
  

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Paul Armentano, of NORML at Lew Rockwell has an excellent commentary this morning on ending the costly "War on Drugs." The Agitator, Radley Balko, has a poll up on Jury Nullification. Before you answer you might want to read this opinion article from Time, by the writers of HBO's The Wire.

Update: The Agitator has linked to this outstanding 2002 opinion piece on jury nullification.