Our gargantuan supply of oil lies beneath an area called the Green River Formation – a barren stretch of land covering portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
World-renowned geologist Walter Youngquist calls the oil beneath the Green River Formation, “a national treasure.”
Congress calls this area simply, “the next Saudi Arabia.”
According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion.
A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. According to economic studies, regulation and taxation of marijuana could produce six billion dollars in additional tax revenue. “Marijuana legalization is inevitable,” Schaffer says.
The Reverend Craig X Rubin, leader of the 420 Temple, argued in a court hearing that marijuana is a religious sacrament and its usage in his church is protected under federal law.
All 18 democrat and republican candidates’ positions on issues arranged in an easy to read table.
The House of Representatives voted 223-201 Thursday to require most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by April 1, 2008.
Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.
“We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants,” the letter said.
This is a war the Bush administration does not want Americans to see. From the beginning, the U.S. government has attempted to censor information about the Iraq war, prohibiting photographs of the coffins of U.S. troops returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the number of Iraqis who have been killed….
Two farmers granted the first licenses in the nation to grow industrial hemp filed a federal lawsuit to get final permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration. “What they say is hemp, we say is marijuana,” said Garrison Courtney, a spokesman for the DEA in Washington.