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• Revenue From Marijuana If It Were Legal

  
  Prose Before Hos — Authority: 126
  See Also: Is Marijuana Prohibition America’s ‘Berlin Wall’? , Colo. Commission Recommends Lowering Drug Penalties , Portland’s ‘Cannabis Café’ opens to cheers, controversy , Doctor’s re-assess marijuana , Can’t Wait For You Idiots to Screw it Up , Virtually legal , Winning The Drug War By ...
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• Europes Cannabis Usage and Drug Decriminalization

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 134
  The Economist gives us a perspective on the state of Cannabis usage in Europe. According to the Economist , ``OVER a fifth of Europeans have taken cannabis at some point in their lives, according to new report on illegal drug use from the EMCDDA, the EUs drug-monitoring arm. Over 30% of Danes, French and ...
  4 days ago

• The Future of Support for Gay Marriage

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  One of the more hopeful things I’ve read on the internet today (esp. considering what happened in Maine last week ) comes courtesy of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish .  This morning they posted an interesting chart that looked at different age groups and explicit support for gay marriage in different ...
  4 days ago

• Latin American countries no longer fear US in setting drug policy

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  ( World Politics Review ) For roughly four decades, a clear foreign policy rule set has existed between the United States and Latin America, centering largely on the question of counternarcotics. Starting with Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs,” an explicit quid pro quo came into existence: U.S. foreign aid (both ...
  5 days ago

• A Low Country Thats Not So High

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 433
  According to some, the Netherlands, a country famous for four-AM food runs and the particular smell of its coffeehouses, should be running rampant with stoners. Those same "some" would probably be surprised to hear that, in fact, if they want...
  1 week ago

• No surprise, again: Use of marijuana in The Netherlands among lowest in Europe

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  AMSTERDAM, Nov 5 ( Reuters ) – The Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands’ well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional study published on Thursday. Among adults in the Netherlands, 5.4 percent used cannabis, compared with the European average of ...
  1 week ago

• Recently sacked UK drugs advisor: “We ignore scientific evidence at our peril.”

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  ( New Scientist ) IF THERE is one thing that politicians can and should do to limit the damage caused by illegal drugs, it is to take careful note of the evidence and develop a rational drug policy. Some politicians find it easier to ignore the evidence, and pander to public prejudice instead. I can trace the ...
  1 week ago

• CBS News Reports on Prospects for Drug Policy Reform

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  CBS News has a good report out on recent developments in drug policy, including extensive coverage of the Cato report, Drug Decriminalization in Portugal . Here’s an excerpt: Portugal’s case is important, Greenwald says, because it provides hard evidence that removes the debate from the realm of ...
  1 week ago

• Gay Marriage Takes a Loss in Maine

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Amidst all the election news yesterday perhaps the most depressing news came from Maine, where voters decided that they did not want gay marriage in their state. From the New York Times : “Maine became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum, a result that will force supporters to ...
  1 week ago

• Breckenridge, Colorado, overwhelmingly approves marijuana decriminalization

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  ( Summit Daily ) BRECKENRIDGE — Breckenridge residents voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and paraphernalia Tuesday under town law. In early returns, some 72 percent of voters approved the measure. The vote means that, effective Jan. 1, people 21 and up in ...
  1 week ago

• Breckenridge, Colorado, voting tomorrow on decriminalization of marijuana

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  Voters in Breckenridge, Colorado are deciding whether to decriminalize personal possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by adults. The editorial board of the local Summit Daily News has already come out in favor of this Measure 2F: ( Summit Daily News ) …Breckenridge residents this Election Day will decide ...
  1 week ago

• Bipartisan desire for grown-up talk about drugs not likely to be fulfilled

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  In an oddly rational television conversation on politics, the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara hosted state Sen. John Morse and Attorney General John Suthers in an exploration of sentencing reform this weekend on the Institute talk show Independent Thinking. The last segment touched on drugs. Here suddenly you ...
  1 week ago

• Rhode Island Legislature OK’s Indoor Prostitution Ban

  
  Insider Escort Secrets — Authority: 127
  Read more at The Boston Globe…RI lawmakers adopt indoor prostitution banBy Ray HenryRhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers.The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it ...
  1 week ago

• George Will and Drug Decriminalization

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  George Will’s latest column takes a look a drug policy and the views of the new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowski.  Notably, Will mentions Portugal’s experience with decriminalization of all drugs since 2001 and says Kerlikowski is aware of the Portuguese policy as well.  Cato published a report on Portugal’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strange Bedfellows

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 419
  It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last, but it’s always interesting to see intolerant Christian hardliners team up with intolerant Muslim hardliners. From the Truth Wins Out blog : The Liberty Counsel — the lawsuit-friendly organization that helps Exodus International and other Christian ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ron Paul Supporter and Former NM Governor Gary Johnson Preparing For 2012?

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 549
  Immediately after Barack Obama won the election last November I published an article revealing my own rather cursory investigation of former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. I wanted to know more about him because I thought he had the potential to be a viable liberty-loving Presidential candidate in 2012. While I did ...
  2 weeks ago

• Drug Decriminalization: Regulation Versus Prohibition

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 134
  Here is an interesting article on drug decriminalization from Peter Moskos at the Washington Post . Some notes: 1. Regulation versus Prohibition ``The Dutch classify marijuana as a "soft drug," which means that, like alcohol and tobacco, it is best regulated through controlled distribution. "Hard drugs," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gallup poll: Should marijuana be legalized?

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 534
  October 23, 2009Gallup video changing views on legalization of marijuana. He actually uses the word “hippies”.DOJ isn’t about to legalize marijuana but they are going to leave the medical marijuana folks alone.Should marijuana be legal?1969 YES 12%2009 YES 44%Legal/not legalRep 28-70Ind 49-50Dem 54-4519-29 ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Brief History of Medical Marijuana

  
  uncomfortably numb — Authority: 116
  By Patrick Stack, with Claire Suddath Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 On Oct. 19, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not pursue medical-marijuana users and distributors who comply with state laws, formalizing a policy at which the Obama Administration hinted earlier this year. Currently, 13 ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Reefer Sanity’

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post : Arguments for and against decriminalization of some or all drugs are familiar by now. Distilled to the basics, the drug war has empowered criminals while criminalizing otherwise law-abiding citizens and wasted billions that could have been better spent on education and ...
  3 weeks ago

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