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Feds Try to Send California Business Owner to Jail for Filling Doctors' Prescriptions

When it comes to medical marijuana, Reason.tv's Drew Carey asks if the government is treating adults like children

June 11, 2008

Reason.tv  host Drew Carey asks, "Are we really helping minors by keeping them from medical marijuana at all costs? Or are we treating their parents like children?"

Drew Carey Defends Medical Marijuana

New Reason.tv video examines the war on drugs and dubious DEA raids on legal medical marijuana dispensaries

November 1, 2007

"I think it's clear by now that the federal government needs to reclassify marijuana. People who need it should be able to get it – safely and easily," says The Price Is Right host Drew Carey in a Reason.tv video examining medical marijuana and the war on drugs.

Protecting Your Daughter in Your Own Home Gets You Life In Prison

Reason.tv's Drew Carey tells the story of "two of the countless casualties of the war on drugs"

May 8, 2008

Drew Carey tells the tragic story of Cory Maye and Ron Jones. Maye was in his home late at night with his one-year-old daughter. A stranger kicked down his door and barged into his daughter's dark bedroom. Maye shot and killed the intruder - just as millions of other Americans would.

But it turned out the intruder was actually Police Officer Ron Jones, raiding the home for drugs. Maye had no criminal record or past. The police did not find any drugs in his home at the time, but a few days later claimed to have found small amounts of marijuana. Police found marijuana, crack cocaine residue and scales at Maye's next-door neighbor's home, but never charged that person with a crime.

Instead of the cops admitting they had the wrong part of the duplex, received bad information from an unreliable confidential informant, and that Maye was protecting his family and acting in self-defense, they charged him with capital murder. Maye was convicted and sentenced to death. Thanks in part to the reporting of Reason magazine's Radley Balko, Maye's sentence was later reduced to life in prison.

"Despite 100 years of heavy social and financial costs, and no indication that victory is attainable, the U.S. government continues to wage its war on drugs," says Drew Carey in the Reason.tv video. Carey calls Maye and Jones "two of the countless casualties of the war on drugs."

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