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Three More UK Drugs Advisers Resign
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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. ...1 day ago -
Working with their families, Police help dope dealers find job training and mentors
Schizo America —
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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 ...1 day ago -
Mexico : Drug Decrim and the 10,000-Ton Monkey
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Pot smoker in Mexico City. Mexicans consume an estimated 342 tons of marijuana a year. Photo by Castillo / AP.Legalization is the only answer...Mexicos massive drug problemAs poet Juan Pablo Garcia posited long ago in his 1985 Pacheco (marijuana user) Manifesto: drugs don’t make us criminals but laws against drugs ...2 days ago -
800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot
CJO's Avenger212 —
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By Sherwood Ross Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons—but the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined ...2 days ago -
The Courage to Quit: U.S. out of Afghanistan
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In my last post, I cited the example of a guy playing high school football in Texas who broke his arm early in the game, but continued playing until his arm was so swollen that his forearm pads had to be cut away at half time. For me, this was an unequivocal example of someone whose common sense was clearly ...2 days ago -
Snitch: The Drug War “crisis in black America”
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"[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." H.R. Haldemans diary according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Dan Baum in his book " Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the ...2 days ago -
FBI director gets schooled on marijuana legalization
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Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen takes FBI Director Robert Mueller to task on marijuana legalization and the “gateway theory.” Related Posts: No Related Posts2 days ago -
Congressman Frank was present during 2007 marijuana bust
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Report: Congressman Frank was present during 2007 marijuana bust By Stephen C. Webster Tipped off by two unnamed individuals, MyFox Boston claims to have unearthed a police report placing Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) at the home of his longtime partner when police arrested the man and charged him ...2 days ago -
Who bugs the buggers?
goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust —
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Ive just been flicking through my newly arrived copy of NORML News. Then this story jumps out at me: SIS denies NORMLs file New Zealands Chief Spook has refused to release any files it may hold on NORML, the ALCP, or the NORML News Editor... NORML News editor Chris Fowlie then wrote to the SIS requesting ...2 days ago -
Being There :: Kurt Vile @ Black Cat, DC
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We will most assuredly be singing the praises of Kurt Vile ’s latest album Childish Prodigy come list-making time before year’s end, and his final performance of his tour this week at the Black Cat did nothing to dissuade such accolades. Shrouded in a curtain of hair, Kurt Vile’s sound and approach to songs ...2 days ago -
Drug Warriors: blind or just innumerate?
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As promised, a note on the UK’s latest data on HIV among drug injectors. Some of the US’s battalions of Drug Warriors have been crowing that the new figures show a rise in infection rates among junkies in the UK: clear evidence that the nation’s policy of making sterile needles and injecting equipment ...3 days ago -
Drug Prohibition
Red Tory v.3.0 —
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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 ...3 days ago -
The men who stare at Americans
goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust —
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Wired has a few stories on The Men Who Stare at Goats , the movie about an Army squad training in the psychotropic and paranormal arts. Wireds movie review s fair to say that the square peg of Alternative Special Ops is forced through the round hole of Hollywood narrative structure a bit too forcedly. The source ...3 days ago -
This is your government on drugs. Any questions?
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I have been meaning to get around to write summat about the government sacking the head of its drug advisory body. In the unlikely event that youre not aware, he was sacked for the heinous crime of daring to criticise our Lords n Masters for placing politics above evidence by saying that cannabis isnt as bad as the ...4 days ago -
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer —
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From the San Francisco Chronicle article “ Report: Pot use, arrests rising in California ”: Marijuana arrests in California are increasing faster than the nationwide rate, and African Americans are being booked for pot-related crimes much more often than whites, a new report says. But despite the rise in ...4 days ago -
The war on drugs
Badtux the Snarky Penguin —
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see more Epic FailsSo... if you already died from using recreational drugs, yet youre answering this poll, does this mean that you are... uhm.... Jesus Christ?!Chalk up one more fail for U.S. drug warriors, who have to be the dullest tools in the workshop...-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin4 days ago -
Paul Holmes backs evidence based drug policy
goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust —
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MPs have tabled a motion in parliament calling for the government to adopt an evidence based approach to drugs policy. One of the co-signers is a Mr Paul Holmes. The bad news is, it is not NZs own stunt dwarf Paul Holmes, but Paul Holmes MP and others in the UK legislature: MPs from the Cross-Party Group on Drugs ...5 days ago -
Snitch and the Wire
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Reason ’s Damon Root writes about John McWhorter’s list of books on race that should receive more attention . He highlights a quote about Ethan Brown’s Snitch : If there were no War on Drugs, I sincerely believe that within a single generation, there would be no perceptible “crisis in black America,” and ...5 days ago -
Breckenridge Votes to Legalize Pot
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From CBS : Breckenridge made pot legal, Denver rejected a get-tough proposal on unlicensed drivers, and tax hikes were turned back around the state Tuesday in municipal elections that appeared to show a public in an anti-government mood. In Breckenridge, 72 percent of voters in early returns voted to make up to ...5 days ago -
A Low Country Thats Not So High
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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...5 days ago