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• Marijuana and Foreign Policy

  
  The Classic Liberal Blog — Authority: 491
  Heres an excellent article from Foreign Policy Magazine about "the American prohibition on thinking smart in the drug war." "An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected, and sown in hemp and to be kept for a permanent hemp patch .... Hemp should be immediately prepared to set them [the spinners] at ...
  12 hours ago

• Would ending prohibition protect gun rights?

  
  Blue Steel Democrats — Authority: 111
  Please vote (at the right) and comment on our member poll: "Would ending prohibition protect gun rights?" Whats your opinion? Please explain your reasoning.
  15 hours ago

• Register Today! New Hampshire RLC Hosts Gov. Gary Johnson

  
  Republican Liberty Caucus — Authority: 123
  The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire will host an educational forum with Gary Johnson on Saturday evening, January 23 in Concord. Gary Johnson is the former two-term Governor of the swing state of New Mexico. He is the Chairman of Our America Initiative . In 1999, Johnson became the ...
  15 hours ago

• Please define Victory?

  
  The Cyber Hacienda — Authority: 119
  I dont think that US and Mexican officials have ever seen a movie about gangsters or the mafia. But cmon they should at least be familiar with Godfather I-III, dont you think? In the first Godfather the young gun, Virgil Sollozzo , tries to violently unseat the Don. In Godfather III Joey Zasa also makes a bid to ...
  18 hours ago

• The Best Chance Yet for Legalizing Marijuana

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 532
  From Alternet : Tax Cannabis 2010 faces hurdles as it prepares for its test on the California ballot next November. It’s Dec. 14 and news that the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 has qualified for the California ballot next year has just exploded in time for the evening news cycle. I am ...
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• Obama and Afghanistan: America’s Drug-Corrupted War

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 144
  The presidential electoral campaign of Barack Obama in 2008, it was thought, “changed the political debate in a party and a country that desperately needed to take a new direction.”[1] Like most preceding presidential winners dating back at least to John F. Kennedy, what moved voters of all descriptions to back ...
  2 days ago

• Some Needed Perspective on Yemen

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 140
  March Lynch has an excellent post on the Yemen situation that is worth reading as we all try to assess its significance:  Don’t lose perspective on Yemen. addthis_url = http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poliblogger.com%2F%3Fp%3D17495; addthis_title = Some+Needed+Perspective+on+Yemen; addthis_pub = ;
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• Mexico Nabs 3rd Brother in Reputed Drug Family

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 532
  From Yahoo News : The capture of a reputed kingpin following the death of his brother has knocked out most of a brutal drug trafficking dynasty after a Mexican crackdown on corruption stripped the Beltran Leyva cartel of many snitches within security forces. Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested in the Pacific ...
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• End the Drug War.

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 127
  Two former officials in the government of Vicente Fox have come out in favor of ending the drug war, which is causing enormous harm in Mexico. Their book, El Narco: La Guerra Fallida (”Narco: The Failed War”) was reviewed January 1 in the Los Angeles Times , “ Book takes Mexico drug war to task .” I met ...
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• Should We Legalize Marijuana?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 495
  After spending $1 trillion on the war on drugs, insiders say the answer is “yes”: Growing numbers of Mexican and U.S. officials say—at least privately—that the biggest step in hurting the business operations of Mexican cartels would be simply to legalize their main product: marijuana. Long the world’s most ...
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• This is your War on Drugs: People hanged from a bridge and shot

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 471
  The American "War on Drugs" directly fuels the ultra-violence seen almost daily in certain areas of Mexico. The cartels, per Mexican and US government sources (they actually seem to agree) report, to the astonishment of the author, that marijuana profits make up 50-65% of Drug Cartel profits. Legal, regulated cannabis ...
  3 days ago

• Last post of the old year before we ring in the new: Giving thanks, various news, a poem and a Slabbed musical repeat

  
  slabbed — Authority: 439
  We’re supposed to be thankful at Thanksgiving and though I was, I didn’t post Thanksgiving wishes. So before we ring out the old year let me start by saying thanks to Nowdy for sticking around for our second year online into our third. She is truly an angel to the people of the Gulf Coast. I’d also like to ...
  5 days ago

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  YOUR NEW REALITY — Authority: 486
  In Louisiana, a mother and son went to jail for growing this : More at The Boston Daily Enterprise. Thats all. That pathetic little plant. How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a crime? Perhaps they enjoy their work. Perhaps they ...
  5 days ago

• New Years Revolutions

  
  Skin Flicks — Authority: 109
  Happy nearly New Year, yall. Hopefully, you realise tomorrow is just another day, and you dont need to make lifechanging decisions while drunk tonight that will transform into mid-January bouts of guilt as you fail. You could stop smoking, lose weight or try to get a new job starting any particular day. Why do it ...
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• Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 527
  Source: Salem News CINCINNATI, Ohio – News out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India reports massive corruption at the highest levels of government, corruption that could only be financed with drug money. In Afghanistan, the president’s brother is known to be one of the biggest drug runners in the world. In ...
  6 days ago

• How did the “Panty-bomber” get a US Visa?

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 549
  Those who travel by air in the future might soon face full body pat downs to check for bombs in the bosom and crotch, thanks to Umar the Panty bomber.But the real problem is that “no using the rest room for the last two hours of flight”. Apparantly, Umar spent an hour in the restroom [...]
  1 week ago

• Incarcerex®

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 137
  Every now and again I feel the need to advocate for the cause of marijuana de-criminalization (if not outright legalization) if for no other reason than because the arguments bolstering the demonstrably failed , multi-billion dollar “War on Drugs” are so maddeningly hypocritical, irrational, and completely ...
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• Retreat From Reality: Some Obvious Observations

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 655
  I am amazed (but shouldn’t be) at how far the American political system has evaded the acceptance of reality and how quickly the chickens are coming home to roost:1. The War on Drugs. This is clearly a fool’s endeavor  now that Mexico is being destabilized and the US border towns will more and...
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• Remember the Questions of Afghan Opium Kingpin on CIA Payroll?

  
  joerobertson.com — Authority: 120
  Interesting video on what the NYTimes report on Karzai’s Brother and the US “War on Drugs” have in common…(As a side note: if we are really serious about the drug war… why would we not just burn the crops and supply the resources to develop a new product for export… like oil and gas?)On Nov 1, 2009 The ...
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• Retreat From Reality: Some Obvious Observations

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 551
  by Mario Rizzo I am amazed (but shouldn’t be) at how far the American political system has evaded the acceptance of reality and how quickly the chickens are coming home to roost: 1. The War on Drugs . This is clearly a fool’s endeavor  now that Mexico is being destabilized and the US border towns will more and ...
  1 week ago

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