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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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• Organization of American States And the U.S. Government Announce Renewed Efforts to Fight Illegal Drugs

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Government of the United States have announced renewed efforts to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in the hemisphere and to provide treatment to persons with drug addictions, two subjects that are expected to dominate next week’s Forty-Sixth Regular Session of the ...
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• Voicing Opposing to UF’s E-cigarette Ban

  
  mrclay.org — Authority: 121
  Recently I wrote about the potential e-cigarettes hold for harm reduction , so when the University of Florida proposed a regulation that would expand its tobacco use ban to explicitly include e-cigarettes, I decided to speak up. Today I sent the following e-mail to Paula Fussell, Vice President for Human Resources. ...
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• It Pays To Be A Mexican Drug Lord

  
  To the People — Authority: 121
  Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman comes in at #41 on Frobes Most Powerful list . Obviously being on this list means shit; but the power that Guzman wields across the border is very real -- and I imagine -- very frightening for the people who live in his territory. Its estimated that his cartel is responsible for hundreds of ...
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• AMA Backs Medicinal Marijuana

  
  Liberal Values — Authority: 141
  The American Medical Association has recommended that the federal government change the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug to allow for its use under medical supervision. Schedule I drugs are those considered to be to hazardous to have any medical value and cannot be prescribed by physicians, even with ...
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• More Cannabis Research Around the Corner?

  
  mrclay.org — Authority: 121
  Today almost no credible evidence suggests that cannabis belongs on Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, alongside drugs like heroin. This position has stifled medical research of the drug and its component chemicals for 39 years, making research extremely expensive and arbitrarily difficult to secure compared ...
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• Drug Madness Has Cost Us Decades of Research

  
  The Australian Heroin Diaries — Authority: 114
  For the last 100 years, politics, moral panic and special interest groups have shaped the world’s drug policies often leaving facts and science behind in the race for a drug free world. Just last week, Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) in the UK was sacked after he ...
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• David Nutt Calls for Change in UK Illegal Substances Handling

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 145
  According to Nutt, the recently fired former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, there are several changes that need to be made to the UK system. He feels that scientists should have a much freer hand in determining just how risky illegal drugs really are for one. Currently such decisions are made ...
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• Drug Prohibition

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 480
  From the esteemed travel writer’s website : Rick Steves sees the current prohibition on marijuana as a misguided policy causing more harm to our society than good — much like the Prohibition against alcohol did in the 1930s. In these recent articles and interviews, Rick explains why he believes that, assuming a ...
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• Professor David Nutts take on cannabis is a creed and not science

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The evidence shows that cannabis is more damaging than Professor David Nutt believes argues Alasdair Palmer
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• Some Marijuana Eradication Statistics

  
  RoguePundit — Authority: 425
  Wed been hearing for awhile now that it had been a banner year for marijuana eradication in much of California.  The following summarizes the results...kind of. Californias pot police have again shattered records for confiscating marijuana. The states Campaign Against Marijuana Planting [CAMP] seized 4.4 million ...
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• E-cigarette: Potentially a huge harm reduction win

  
  mrclay.org — Authority: 121
  I first learned about e-cigarettes from Reason’s coverage of the FDA’s rush to ban them, and of the rightful criticism of that intent from the American Association of Public Health Physicians. Without smoke (e-cigs are miniature vaporizers), nicotine use is likely to be many magnitudes less harmful to the ...
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• Links: Let’s Talk About Texting Whilst Driving

  
  Zeal For Truth — Authority: 116
  Finally, an article against bans on texting whilst driving: Now think of this poll showing a widespread opposition to texting while driving. I submit that you would get similar results from a poll that asked people about the right to drive: Do you support or oppose the right of everyone to own 4,000-pound heaps ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Medical Marijuana Expansion Approved by Wide Margin

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Voters in Maine, overwhelmingly decided that patients should have easier access to medical marijuana. Preliminary poll results showed nearly 60 percent of voters approved a ballot initiative that makes Maine only the fifth state to allow dispensaries. Currently, more than 50 percent of Americans live in a state that ...
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• Minor drug policy reform achieved in other state, needlessly...

  
  philadelphia will do — Authority: 560
  Minor drug policy reform achieved in other state, needlessly blogged about. matt-t adds : “At least Maine got one thing right.” Pot got more votes than gays! Last year in Massachusetts, pot got more votes than banning dog racing .
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• Cannabis prohibition — a question

  
  The Quiet Road — Authority: 121
  While the question is implied in my previous post, I’d like to spell it out directly here in the hope that someone can provide an answer. Why is it a criminal offence to possess cannabis? The recent admission by the British Home Secretary that their policy is not based upon scientific advice is merely an ...
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• Scientific advice and policy confusion

  
  The Quiet Road — Authority: 121
  As I’ve pointed out in the past , the drug policies of most governments are profoundly irrational. They are based upon ideology, spurious reasoning and outright falsehoods. Furthermore there is no evidence whatsoever that they achieve their stated aim. In fact, the circumstantial evidence available seems to suggest ...
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