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• B’Man’s Patriot Watch: David Simon

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 428
  I am certainly glad that Chycho decided to post this and enlighten folks (Chycho has recently been on an important hiatus ). Part One Part Two I think my buddy Jay Midnyte would be interested in Mr Simon’s thoughts on free market capitalism. Posted in BMans Patriot Watch, Big Prison, ...
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• Come into the bud light

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 594
  This particular graphic has been floating around for a few days now — I caught it at Van der Leun’s — and it deserves some comment. The tax numbers look impressive, but it’s only because they have lots of digits. California could certainly use $105 million right about now — even after taking some ...
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• Re-examining UK drug culture

  
  Student Direct — Authority: 146
  Terence Dudley   The war on drugs has failed society. Time and time again politicians have repeated the ‘zero tolerance’ slogans, and to what end? The result has been steady rises in drug use, crime and health costs (which the Department of Health put at fifteen billion per year). The only winners, it ...
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• American Medical Association Calls For Scientific Review Of Marijuana’s Prohibitive Status

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  11-14-2009 • norml.org via Rense.com Houston, TX: The American Medical Association (AMA) this week called for a scientific review of cannabis’ federal status as a Schedule I prohibited substance. On Tuesday, the AMA’s House of Delegates resolved , “[The] AMA urges that ...
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• 4:20 News

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 475
  # The biggest news that has been in the headlines recently is the rolling storm after the sacking of the governments chief drugs advisor Professor David Nutt . The day prior to this news, David Nutt had appeared in the BBC headlines for accusing ex-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith of "devaluing" the copious evidence on ...
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• Ethan Nadelmann: Fighting the war against the war on drugs

  
  Picture This — Authority: 117
  Ethan Nadelmann: “Right now the wind is at our back” from Hungarian Civil Liberties Union on Vimeo . Opening speech of Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance at the 2009 Drug Reform Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Always enjoy this man’s speeches and as always there ...
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• First U.S. Marijuana Cafe Opens in Portland

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 585
  From Reuters : The United States’ first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration’s move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the first to give certified medical marijuana users a place to get hold of the drug and smoke it ...
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• William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

  
  Kasama — Authority: 431
  Film on William Kunstler — the beloved and notorious legal defender of revolutionaries and radicals — in a look back on his life created by his daughters, Sarah and Emily Kunstler.Screening dates >>Opening November 13 * Cinema Village, New York* Landmark, BostonOpening November 20 *NuArt Theatre, Los ...
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• Video- How The US Funds The Taliban

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  Via Cspan Junkie.
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• Detective Accused of Providing Tips to Informers Is Acquitted

  
  Cop in the Hood — Authority: 428
  Drugs is a dirty world . Too bad we put police into a battle they cant win.
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• Displacement’s Call for Crowdsourcing

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  The increasing severity of global displacement creates the need for a responsive use of the world’s advancing digital technologies. The tangle of humanitarian crisis might be severely truncated if crowdsourcing , like that of Ushahidi , which developers created in the immediate wake of 2008’s Kenyan electoral ...
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• American Medical Assn. Urges Federal Government to Reconsider Classification of Marijuana as a Dangerous Drug

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 585
  John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times : The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The nation’s ...
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• 18 negative effects of the ban on cannabis

  
  Marijuana & Cannabis Blog — Authority: 413
  Here is a list of some of the negative effects of the ban on cannabis: The ban on cannabis means that in addition to the coffeeshops and people who grow for their own use, an illegal market in cannabis also exists. There is no possibility of control over this illegal market which leads to criminality, unsafe ...
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• American Medical Association Backs Drug Law Reform To Permit Medical Marijuana

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 689
  A major boost this week for efforts to reform marijuana laws: The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The ...
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• America, Here’s Your Change Candidate for 2012

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 785
  Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, may lead a libertarian insurgency for the GOP nomination.
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• AMA requests government review of marijuana “Schedule 1″ classification

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 132
  Here’s an update to my October 27th column about the War on Drugs, and the subtle, slow-to-come signs that the government is beginning to consider more seriously the medicinal uses of various “harmful substances”.The American Medical Association (AMA) has officially requested that the government review its ...
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• The AMA Open to Medical Marijuana Research

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 769
  The LA Times reports : The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. . . . In changing its policy, the group ...
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• Veterans In Prison For Non-Violent Drug Offenses

  
  Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer — Authority: 416
  The Drug Policy Alliance released a paper last week, “ Healing a Broken System: Veterans Battling Addiction and Incarceration ”. One of several recommendations: State and federal governments must modify sentencing statutes and improve court ordered drug diversion programs to better treat – rather than ...
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• Three More UK Drugs Advisers Resign

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 141
  From BBC News : Three more government advisers have resigned after the home secretary’s sacking of his chief drugs adviser Prof David Nutt, the BBC has learned. Dr John Marsden, Dr Ian Ragan and Dr Simon Campbell have quit the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs after two others left earlier this month. ...
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• Working with their families, Police help dope dealers find job training and mentors

  
  Schizo America — Authority: 117
  Benjamin Lowy / VII Network for Newsweek Anti-gang advocate David Kennedy in Hempstead, N.Y. According to Prison Blogger Michael Santos , David Kennedy, a professor at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, uses common sense to reduce crime and keep communities safer. In the February 9, 2009 ...
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