Drug Policy
The ‘threat’ that supposedly justified killing 2 boat attack survivors was speculative
On Thursday, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the newly controversial September 2 operation that inaugurated President Donald Trump's deadly military campaign against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the…
Boat strike commander says he had to kill 2 survivors because they were smuggling cocaine
If we call a cocaine smuggler an "unlawful combatant" in an "armed struggle" against the United States, the Trump administration says, it is OK to kill him, even if he is unarmed and poses no immediate…
Rand Paul bashes Pete Hegseth over boat bombings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfQFDFvsFI Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed outrage at being misled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea. Hegseth initially…
Hegseth’s ‘fog of war’ is no excuse for summarily executing suspected drug smugglers
"I did not personally see survivors," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "The thing was on fire. It exploded, there's fire, there's smoke….This is called the fog of…
The law of war was not designed for Trump’s bogus ‘armed conflict’ with drug smugglers
The Trump administration disputes The Washington Post's report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth instructed U.S. forces to "kill everybody" on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean last September, which…
Hegseth’s alleged ‘kill everybody’ order complicates Trump’s anti-drug campaign
Eight days after the September 2 operation that inaugurated President Donald Trump's lethal military campaign against suspected drug boats, The Intercept reported that people who survived the initial missile strike were…
Psychoactive hemp products will be banned unless Congress intervenes
Thanks to a bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown, intoxicating hemp products will be federally prohibited as of November 13, 2026, a year after President Donald Trump signed the legislation.…
Trump wants to jail Democrats who noted soldiers may disobey illegal orders
In a video message posted this week, six Democratic legislators with military or intelligence backgrounds remind members of the armed forces that they are not obligated to follow unlawful orders. That point is legally…
Gun rights groups claim National Firearms Act registration no longer constitutional
Testifying in favor of the National Firearms Act (NFA) in 1934, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings noted that the federal government "of course" had "no inherent police powers to go into certain localities and…
A Senate-approved bill would ban the hemp-derived THC products that Congress legalized in 2018
Forty states now allow medical use of marijuana, while 24, accounting for most of the U.S. population, also allow recreational use. Yet the federal ban on marijuana, first enacted in 1937, remains in place, which means…
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