There are many instances of drug dealers altering flavor and packaging of cocaine or methamphetamines to appeal to children. – Dianne Feinstein
As regular readers know, I never used cannabis before moving to Seattle, and I dislike smoking the stuff. But I’ve become very fond of edibles, and here’s an interesting video on the differences between smoking & eating (courtesy of Emma Evans). The links above it were provided by Mirriam Seddiq (“does”), Tim Cushing (“nope”, “reason” & “dinosaurs”), Amy Alkon (“Neighborhood”), Police Misconduct (“dog”), and Grace (“together”).
- As one does.
- Not a police state, nope.
- Not. For. Any. Reason. Whatsoever.
- It’s a beautiful job in the Neighborhood.
- When just shooting a dog isn’t cruel & inhuman enough.
- The world will be a much better place once these dinosaurs die.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- When women learn they can profit more by whoring, more become whores.
- “Sex trafficking” fanaics’ ignorance is exceeded only by their megalomania.
- Scottish cops won’t stop endangering sex workers with “end demand” crap.
- Two teens tried as adults for murdering a friend to appease Slender Man.
- Cops, Steven Banks, paperbacks, sex toys, coloring books & much more.
- Molly Smith debunks claims the Swedish model “decriminalizes” whores.
- A manipulative sadist tries to disguise his actions as consensual BDSM.
- Even most who really were coerced into sex work hate criminalization.
- All the most enlightened countries use US-type anti-sex work rhetoric.
- In other words, female students are much, much more inclined to lie.
- France re-criminalizes “looking like a whore”; one Italian city follows.
- Sex worker kills drunk, violent client who tried to fuck her bareback.
- King County isn’t done destroying people’s lives for consensual sex.
- Danish prohibitionists claim sex work is “spreading” like a disease.
- “Sex addiction” is the defense of choice for upskirt photographers.
- Headlines, loss, cops, laws, spontaneous activity and much more.
- This is painfully stupid even for a “sex trafficking” publicity stunt.
- Colorado politicians make it easier to destroy teens for “sexting”.
- An attempt to defeat sex worker rights by underhanded means.
- It wouldn’t do to stop murdering and caging people all at once.
- My friend Savannah Sly is among the pictures featured here.
- Tara Burns with a guide on reporting about “sex trafficking”.
- Don’t feel bad if you got caught by my April Fools’ Day post.
- Regulating sex under the guise of “fighting discrimination”.
- A retrospective of my columns from March 2012 and 2013.
- How much money did Seattle waste on this boondoggle?
- The Seattle Times continues its revolting badge-licking.
- There’s this problem I invented! Now buy my software!
- So “signs of trafficking” idiocy isn’t confined to the US.
- Another “stripping causes sex trafficking” wankfest.
- Politicians fling toilet bills like monkeys fling poop.
- Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
- Do prohibitionists think I’m an actual she-devil?
- Global warming turns women into WHORES!!!
- The Swedish model is defeated in France.
- Still think you don’t live in a police state?
- Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
- More truth about the Swedish model.
- Oooooh, it’s a SPOOOOOOKY hub!
- The harlotography that wasn’t.
- Bree Olson: Her Untold Story.
- How convenient for the State.
- It never stops with us, ladies.
- It was only a matter of time…
- Assault with a lucite pump.
- Chester Brown’s new book.
- Well, this was unexpected.
- Cambodian trauma porn.
- An April Fools gag.
- My first selfie.
Interesting news today that New York City is exploring downgrading prostitution to a civil fine as opposed to criminal. This is part of the new supposed plan to close our Riker’s Island prison, not happening any time soon in my view.
This movement is occurring in many areas across the country but is as toxic if not more so than the existing enforcement model. The authorities are now charged with collecting civil fines while lowering their costs massively. In this and other cases, the costs of imprisonment, prosecutor resources, court, arraignment, post arrest holding, law enforcement resources, etc. are virtually eliminated. This will lead to more injustice as I guarantee how this will work. Administrative pushes to issue fines. Less resistance by practitioners and customers since there is reduced fear of arrest and public humiliation (more on this later). Fines issued to providers based upon advertising online (perhaps a long shot) but there could be licensing and taxation issues used as leverage. Administrative law judges hearing appeals for fines much like DMV and parking tickets where you are presumed guilty and have a snowball’s chance in hell of prevailing. Related to this last point, the offer to pay the fine and avoid a public record, perhaps with a minor reduction in fine amount. On site extortion at the issuance of the fine where the officer making the accusation gives the option to accept the fine in a legally binding manner and avoid a greater hassle such as public record, arrest or some other rigged court hearing.
While the change to civil might initially make providers and customers think of this as a cost of doing business, they will soon realize that fines are part of a personal record in some way and in some ways public. This will affect many in the future. Enough to miss the lost chance to have a day in court to challenge the charges with proper representation and actually decriminalize and change the law itself.
vaporizers. much better than smoking.
Eating, much better than any kind of lung ingestion.