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• Political Correctness Left Livingstrong Blog

  
  THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR CASTRO — Authority: 424
  Would the CIA or the FBI kill me if I oppose the atrocities that the government of the United States has committed through out the years around the world fighting stupid wars and meddling in other countries problems? Maybe not. Im just a small blogger, my blog doesnt have tons of Internet traffic, I have never written ...
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• Feds: Former US Prosecutor Helped Rub Out Witnesses For Gangster Clients, Ran Drugs And Call-Girls

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  Source: TPM Muckraker From federal prosecutor to accused violent gangster, pimp, and drug-dealer…That’s the unusual career trajectory taken, say the Feds, by Paul Bergrin, who was indicted earlier this month in a 39-count racketeering indictment. In a drama that could have been made for HBO, Bergrin — a ...
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• Links!

  
  JonahKeri.com — Authority: 420
  Some rapid-fire links to keep you entertained and informed on a Tuesday. Doug Glanville offers up his usual keen insight as he gives readers an inside look at what the MLB free agency process looks like from a player’s eyes. The latest on the War On Drugs? The younger generation is much more open to legalization ...
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• Shifts in Attitudes Towards Marijuana

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 141
  Via WaPo :  Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S. : A Gallup poll in October found 44 percent of Americans favor full legalization of marijuana — a rise of 13 points since 2000. Gallup said that if public support continues growing at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per year, "the majority of ...
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• Ed Meese Suddenly Worried About The Prison Population [Assholes]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  " In an interview at the Heritage Foundation , a conservative research group where he is a fellow, Mr. Meese said the liberal ideas of extending the power of the state were to blame for an out-of-control criminal justice system." Ahem. You know, Ed Meese III, it is nice that you have come around, in some fashion, ...
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• The War on Drugs: FAIL: An Interview With Clifford Thornton Jr.

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 587
  Pinky interviews drug policy expert Clifford Thornton: “The War on Drugs has absolutely nothing to do with drugs – it’s about power, it’s about control, it’s about coercion, it’s about money.”
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• Why are we in Colombia?

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  There has been a pretty steady drumbeat of news coming out of Latin America recently surrounding the possibility of war between Venezuela and Colombia. In most of this media coverage, the blame here has been placed pretty squarely on Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, who is portrayed as a possible warmonger ...
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• BUY AMERICAN POT: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE AMGA

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 579
  BUY AMERICAN POT: A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE AMGA 11-21-2009 • Reason.tv We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don’t have to pay taxes, ...
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• A Special Message From the American Marijuana Growers Association

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 574
  nv/T
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• Mexican border city asks for UN help

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 678
  In Ciudad Juarez a group of Mexican business leaders have proposed requesting UN peace keepers to quell the growing violence. The sister city to El Paso, TX is experiencing levels of violence that the Mexican army can barely control. About 2000 people have been murdered so far this year.
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• Cory Maye to Have a Second Chance at Justice

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 534
  With my busy work schedule as it is, I managed to miss the very encouraging news that Cory Maye will get a new trial! I think it will be very interesting how his second trial unfolds now that he will have a better legal team with better expert witnesses to debunk the dubious testimony of the prosecution. The ...
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• Ex-U.S. attorney: Time to change pot laws

  
  Marijuana & Cannabis Blog — Authority: 414
  Three years ago, former U.S. Attorney John McKay was somewhere near the front lines of the nation’s drug war. Directing federal prosecutions in Western Washington before he was fired in 2006 by the administration that appointed him, McKay’s office sent marijuana smugglers and farmers to prison on decade-long ...
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• As seen on TV

  
  goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust — Authority: 428
  Operation Cobra launches a round of drug raids in the Wellington region. Stuffs Emily Watt goes advertorial-aggressive as the valiant embedded journalist for the drug warriors. It could be any office meeting. Morning sunshine streams through the window, staff are sitting around the table flicking through reports ...
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• Del. Morhaim: The war on drugs has failed

  
  Jay Hancock's blog — Authority: 506
  Excellent post on the Audacious Ideas blog by Dan Morhaim, emergency medicine physician and state delegate from Baltimore County, on the failed war on drugs. Go read it. Jammed prisons, AIDS, destroyed families, crime victims, terrorist funding: the toll is immense. Addiction treatment is a critical step but just ...
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• 10 Reasons I Am A Libertarian Christian

  
  ...the bound dragon... — Authority: 112
  1. The Biblical maxim to “love your neighbor” and the Libertarian principle of non-aggression[1] are essentially synonymous. 2. With the exception of defensive wars in the case of attack, war is an evil that plagues humanity; Christians are to be peacemakers[2] and together with Libertarians should oppose ...
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• Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Dithering on Afghanistan

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold.  The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling out their hair. During his campaign for the White House President Obama said, “We have ...
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• Cory Maye to receive new trail

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 574
  Great news broke yesterday. Cory Maye , who was convicted for the murder of Prentiss Police Officer Ron Jones during a botched drug raid, will receive a new trail . For a detailed background on this case, you check out the work Radley Balko has done on Maye’s case over at Reason or watch Mississippi Drug War ...
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• Can Mind-Altering Drugs have Mental Health Benefits?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  From the Telegraph : New studies are testing whether psychedelic drugs such as LSD and MDMA can treat OCD, post traumatic stress and cancer related anxiety. On September 19 this year, 12 people gathered in the suburban Hermsdorf district of Berlin for a group psychotherapy session that allegedly involved ...
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• The Relentless War on Drug Users Is Escalating Violence in the US: It’s Time for Harm Reduction

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 587
  Don Hazen, veteran progressive and currently the main man at AlterNet, (plus a good guy and friend of Disinformation), has penned a compelling editorial on the drug war: Ethan Nadelmann is one of a handful of marvelously charismatic and motivating speakers within the liberal and progressive universe. He talks ...
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• Legalize It: It’s About Time

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  Time.  The one commodity we can never replace and precisely the commodity that too many Americans are losing, thanks to current marijuana laws.  Time is money, right?  So who’s losing?  Image via Wikipedia Farmers and Merchants – Marijuana is extremely useful as a material.  Hemp can be used to ...
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