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• in Politics
  Congress to Consider Decriminalizing Marijuana
  Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank introduce a bill that would decriminalize marijuana.
  by elizabethross / on Jun 24, 2011
• in Politics
  War on Drugs an Epic Fail, Says New Report by World Leaders
  World leaders say we lost the war on drugs. Now what?
  by jimmyzuma / on Jun 2, 2011
• in Politics
  The Institutionalization of the War on Drugs
  As the death toll rises in Mexico, failed U.S. drug policy continues uninterrupted.
  by theflylooper / on May 2, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “war on drugs”

 

• The War on Drugs: “The worst case of scientific censorship since the Church banned Copernicus and Galileo”

  
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  According to this article , laws against marijuana and other psychedelic substances have completely derailed scientific research into such fields as the study of consciousness.  This opinion was published in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience. David Nutt, a professor of neuro-psychopharmacology at Imperial ...
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• Unearthing the Truth: Drugs, Addiction, Race and Poverty Forum and Book Signing with Dr. Carl Hart

  
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  Unearthing the Truth: Drugs, Addiction, Race and Poverty Forum and Book Signing with Dr. Carl Hart June 20th, 2013 6:00pm – 9:00pm http://www.highpricethebook.com From the streets of Miami to becoming Columbia University’s first tenured African-American professor in the sciences, Dr. Carl Hart writes about his ...
  6 days ago

• Reefer madness? If ‘super skunk’ is causing mental health problems, the perverse drug laws are to blame

  
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  Imagine that you’re a smuggler. You’re running a high-risk operation bringing contraband jewellery out of a country which outlaws the export of any precious or semi-precious stones. If you get caught, you face years in jail. Do you smuggle a) quartz or b) diamond? No, it’s not a hard question, is it. If your ...
  6 days ago

• Drug Prohibition Stifles Medical, Scientific Advances, Researchers Find

  
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  Prohibition of psychoactive drugs is preventing crucial scientific research, three scientists argue in a new neuroscience journal paper . The scientists — two former UK drug officials and an American professor with expertise in psychiatry, chemistry, and pharmacology – call for both national and international ...
  6 days ago

• Colorado Law No Longer Treats Marijuana Magazines Like Porn

  
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  It didn’t take long for a new law treating marijuana magazines like pornography to be invalidated. Even before the law was passed requiring marijuana magazines to be placed behind the counter in stores with customers younger than 21, publishers vowed to file a legal challenge against the law. While the provision ...
  6 days ago

• WELLNESS | Dr. Gabor Maté: Can Psychedelics Help Treat Cancer?

  
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  Addiction specialist and author of the bestselling book,  In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts   Gabor Mate, M.D.delivered an usual message for an MD at the Psychedelic Sciences conference in Oakland, California earlier this year. According to Dr. Maté, the “unconscious mind” can cause medical afflictions like ...
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• The War on Marijuana Users

  
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  The numbers tell the tale: The so-called “War on Drugs” is really a war on otherwise innocent Marijuana Users. The tide is turning, and America is coming out of the pot closet. For more #MJNews: http://MJHeadlineNews.com
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• Two great things...

  
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  LEAP and Vice . Together at last .
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• Black Man With 0.00 Blood Alcohol Level Arrested for DUI

  
  THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 118
  Since Edward Snowden revealed himself as the NSA data-mining whistleblower , let’s talk about our civil liberties shall we? I mean, now that civil liberties are on everyone’s mind, it would seem that today is probably the best day to talk about government over-reach. However, instead of me discussing Snowden who ...
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• And The Screws Tighten Further

  
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  As the Conservatives continue on their hardline "tough on crime" nonsense agenda, the next step unrolled in an announcement from Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq revealed new rules for managing medical marijuana : Under the new regime, the government will no longer produce or distribute medical pot and ...
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• The Top Ten Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now

  
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  As "...the number of jailed and imprisoned people rises at an unprecedented rate...the Washington Post calls the graph below, “ The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy ,” and the same Washington Post debunks the rebuttals to the legalization of marijuana ( ...
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• Marijuana, Pharmakeia, and The War on God – Show Notes

  
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  For those of you that didn’t catch the first morning show, here are the show notes that provide a very brief outline of what I touched on. To get the full dialogue, you’ll have to listen to the full show in the archive or by using the player below. Show Notes Intro Websites: Iron vs. [...]
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• Liberty and License

  
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  George Will : Libertarians believe government should have a compelling reason before it restricts an individual’s liberty.  Today’s liberals believe almost any reason will do, because liberty is less important than equality, fraternity, fighting obesity, and many other aspirations. Better make that ...
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• Vermont decriminalizes pot… sort of

  
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  Smokin This is definitely the sort of story which will bring many people to their feet with a rousing cry of, “wait… you mean it wasn’t already legal to smoke pot in Vermont?” Apparently it wasn’t. And even after a new law signed by the governor on Thursday, it’s still not legal legal. But it has [...] ...
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• Matt Rothschild: End The Failed And Racist War On Pot

  
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  Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive , cites the ACLU’s new report, “ The War on Marijuana in Black and White ,” which found that between 2001-2010, “blacks were almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession, even though blacks and whites use marijuana at comparable ...
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• NSA Data-Mining, PRISM, & Why My Black Ass Isn’t Afraid

  
  THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY — Authority: 118
  Pissed off that the govt is spying on you? Welcome to being black in America. My man, Dr. Cornel West called it the “ Niggerization of America. ” And it’s been happening since 9/11. To that point, watching privileged folk lose their freedom-loving minds this morning, has been nothing but pure comedy for me. Oh, ...
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• Give Peace a Chance

  
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  "The years between 2000 and 2010 do not simply constitute a war on marijuana, but a war on black people who use marijuana." Well said , Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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• 165 Rescued: Kidnapper Caught Near U.S. Border

  
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  Mexican authorities this week rescued 165 kidnapped people near the U.S.-Mexican border. According to a Reuters report , the kidnapped people were mostly Central American migrants, and included women and children. Groups of them were reportedly attempting to cross the border into the U.S. when they were kidnapped ...
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• Vermont Becomes 17th State To Decriminalize Marijuana

  
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  Vermont became the 17th state to decriminalize marijuana possession on Thursday. A bill signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) removes criminal penalties for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana or less than five grams of hashish by adults age 21 or older, and imposes civil penalties akin to a traffic ...
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• Texas may throw out thousands of drug cases

  
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  Thousands of Texas drug convictions may be overturned after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that a drug examiner’s methods were unreliable. According to Houston’s KTRK : “What the court said was we can’t trust those results anymore,” Harris County Public Defender Alex Bunin said. It all started last year. ...
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