The politics of pot

Raich v. Ashcroft is on the docket for Monday at SCOTUS. Be sure to check out Pete's excellent and comprehensive guide to the case at Drug WarRant. Who knows how he finds the time to put these guides together but we're glad he does. He probably should have been a lawyer.

Meanwhile, Loretta Nall reports that Marc Emery's websites endured a denial of service attack this week. Fortunately, I checked Emery's site this morning and found it up and running again.

Interesting timing though, in that Bush is due to visit Canada on Tuesday and Marc has been organizing one of the protests related to US drug policy. Word has it that other groups opposed to the war and US human rights atrocities are also planning to protest. It would appear the rumors are true since Bush cancelled an appearance in front of the Parliament because he was afraid of being booed.