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The deadly crash happened on March 18, 2021, when Shaver and another passenger, Laney Zambri, were driving on Pacific Coast Highway. Shaver was under the influence of marijuana at the time, said the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. The passenger, Zambri, was standing through the car’s sunroof while filming a Snapchat video, authorities said. As Shaver was driving, she lost control of the car and crashed, causing the vehicle to flip over. When the vehicle flipped over, Zambri was ejected and suffered critical injuries. She was transported to a local hospital where she died days later... As part of Shaver’s...

Dustin Schoenhofer, metalcore band Walls of Jericho's drummer, has been arrested in Oregon...632.5 pounds of marijuana and 36.8 pounds of suspected butane honey oil extract...Schoenhofer was arrested and booked...on six charges, including exporting marijuana, exporting extract...destined for Ohio...

Mexico City has voted to legalise abortion - defying the Pope, but delighting feminists in the world's second largest Catholic country. Riot police kept 'pro-choice' and 'anti-abortion' demonstrators - carrying tiny white coffins and playing tapes of babies crying - apart. Mexico City lawmakers voted 46 to 19 to pass a left-wing sponsored bill allowing women to abort in the first three months of pregnancy. The abortion vote has split Mexico's 107 million people and prompted a letter last week from Pope Benedict urging Mexican bishops to oppose it.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A woman police officer moonlighting as a prostitute has got off with a caution, New Zealand police said Thursday. The unidentified officer, stationed in the country's biggest city Auckland, was discovered last year to have been a prostitute for a short time. "The officer concerned has been counseled. Under police procedures this amounts to a censure," Deputy Police Commissioner Lyn Provost said in a statement. The police officer, who was understood to be having financial difficulties, had not sought permission to have a second job. Such applications are considered on a case-by-case basis. "This type of secondary...

Could Same-Sex Marriage Lead to Legalized Polygamy? By Debra Saunders When social conservatives argue that legalizing same-sex marriage could lead to legalized polygamy, same-sex marriage advocates either laugh or sneer. It's a scare tactic, they say. It'll never happen. Last year, however, as Canada legalized same-sex marriage, Prime Minister Paul Martin commissioned a $150,000 study to debunk the polygamy argument. Big mistake: The study confirmed the scare tactic by recommending that Canada repeal its anti-polygamy law. It also suggested that a legal challenge to Canada's anti-polygamy laws would succeed. "Why criminalize behavior?" asked Martha Bailey, one of the study's three...

SACRAMENTO – A group of California lawmakers is trying to block the impact of last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded the government's power to seize private property, a decision that was swiftly criticized by groups across the political spectrum. In the 5-4 decision, the nation's highest court ruled that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses without their consent for private development. State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Northridge, said the court ruling in Kelo v. New London allows governments to "take the house of a person that it doesn't like, and give it to a person that it...

Apparently, if we’re to believe his friend’s tape recordings, George W. Bush smoked pot at some time in his life. In some quarters, this president is taking some heat for having actually inhaled. Well, I’m confessing that I, too, smoked a little weed in my younger days. Unlike some people, such as Bill Maher, I’m not bragging about it. It’s simply something I did, like riding a bike and practicing my hook shot three hours a day, and now I don’t. Therefore, unlike many of my fellow conservatives, when I discuss marijuana, I’ve had first hand experience with it. To...

MADISON, Wis. - Although Wisconsin residents have voiced their support for a plan to legalize wild cat hunting, some legislators and cat lovers say they will continue their fight. The proposal would allow licensed hunters to kill free-roaming cats, including any domestic cat that isn't under the owner's direct control or any cat without a collar, just like skunks or gophers - something the Humane Society of the United States has described as cruel and archaic. Outdoor enthusiasts approved the proposal 6,830 to 5,201 at Monday's spring hearings of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, a citizens' advisory group. The results, released...

Since 1983, many people with disabilities have opposed the assisted suicide and euthanasia movement. Though often described as compassionate, legalized medical killing is really about a deadly double standard for people with severe disabilities, including both conditions that are labeled terminal and those that are not.

Today, June 26, is the first anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s tragic decision granting constitutional protection to sodomy and striking down laws in 13 states that criminalized this anti-natural behavior. The American TFP’s full page analysis of the high court’s decision published in The Washington Times on July 9, 2003 (click here) called it America’s “moral 9/11.” The homosexual movement exulted with its victory and readily grasped its profound implications for society as a whole. In the words of Susan Sommer, Lambda Legal’s leading attorney in Lawrence: “The decision itself is a powerful legal tool… But even...

Since Marijuana is the main drug that is able to be tested for when on probation people often tend to switch to other drugs while on paper, this is what causes people to get attached to other drugs not marijuana itself. If Marijuana were legalized this i feel that this wouldn't be as much of a problem.

Cannabis poses a greater threat to health than tobacco, lung experts have warned. The warning comes on the day that Home Secretary David Blunkett is due to make a Commons statement about the future of government drug policy. Many young people are simply not aware that smoking cannabis may put them at increased risk of respiratory cancers and infections . Dame Helena Shovelton: The Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended that cannabis is downgraded from a class B drug to class C. This would mean that possession would lead to a caution, rather than arrest. The British Lung Foundation is...