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Original Technorati articles tagged “war on drugs”

• 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”

 

• Alliance Of Western Nations Flags Public Safety Benefits Of Drug Decriminalization

  
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  In the wake of calls from several Latin American leaders to end the failed war on drugs, a new report by an international alliance of major Western Hemisphere nations flags the potential benefits of decriminalization and/or legalization . Although the 200-page Organization of American States report shies away ...
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• Kanye West’s “New Slaves” Is Right On Prisons And Consumer Culture, But Weird On Women

  
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  Kanye West’s debuted a new song, “New Slaves,” for a mass audience on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and as an art project last Friday, projecting a video for the song on buildings in London , Chicago, New York, and Sydney. Among those locations was the Prada store Fifth Avenue: It’s a fitting choice ...
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• Obligatory Lazy Link Post

  
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  There is no news today, so heres an obligatory post of interesting things. # Aaron Gilmore might be getting attacked by batsmen swooping and diving around his head like mental magpies. Thank Dagg Pablo and Manhire are awake and staring in horror as the new GCSB and Communications Intercept Bills move at warp ...
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• Using Expensive Legal Claims As Leverage, Top Enron Fraudster Reaches Deal To Slash Sentence

  
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  Jeffrey Skilling Even when Jeffrey Skilling was first sentenced for conspiring in one of the largest corporate fraud schemes in modern history, he received less jail time than some low-level drug offenders sentenced to harsh mandatory minimums. But this week, Skilling reached a deal with the Department of ...
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• Thursday Morning Link Transmission!

  
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  * American says no to MOOCs. So does SFSU. * Meanwhile, Florida Polytechnic University says no to tenure. “We want to be a leading university, and we wanted to attract faculty who think out of the box, and who are ambitious and creative,” said Ghazi Darkazalli, vice president of academic affairs. “We ...
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• California Legalizes Pot, Drug Dealers Move To New York

  
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  There’s a fascinating lesson in the economics of prohibition to be learned from this report of a drug dealer who moved from California, where marijuana is basically legal, to New York where it remains illegal : Meet Chuck, a San Francisco marijuana dealer, who came to New York from California to sell weed ...
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• Immigration Hearts Could be Shattered by Washington Breaking Their Dreams

  
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  COHA Research on Immigration is an analysis of immigration-related measures being intermittently issued by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. On April 10, thousands of immigration reform supporters gathered together in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to rally for the inclusion of a reliable path to ...
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• Sunday Afternoon Links: Marx at 193, The Kids Aren’t All Right, The Sixth Season of the Wire, and More

  
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  * ‘Employers have feasted on despair’: The War Against Youth. In the early 1980s, 3 percent of college grads had had an internship. By 2006, 84 percent had done at least one. Multiple internships are common. According to a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, more than 75 percent of ...
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• Tom Corbett And His Big Bong Theory

  
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  The Tea Party Tide swept a lot of toxic garbage into governors mansions across the country-- Rick Scott in Florida, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Sam Brownback in Kansas, John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Snyder in Michigan, Bob Forced Ultrasound McDonnell in Virginia, Nathan Deal in Georgia, Nikki Haley in South Carolina, ...
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• Aaron Gilmore is unwell

  
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  Aaron Gilmore, raconteur and bon vivant, has burst back into the Court of St. James in style . Looking back as a burnt-out hospo droid, I had to put up with a lot of shit in my time. Oh, the stories I could tell, but my lips are zipped. What goes on in hospo stays in hospo. However, these are not the old days. ...
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• U-2 Spy Planes Used for What?

  
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  Over at the Huffington Post , Radley Balko has been promoting his upcoming book Rise of the Warrior Cop with a “Raid of the Day” featuring highlighting outrageous overreach by police. A few days ago he highlighted raids undertaken in the mid-1980s as part of California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting ...
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• Wisconsin Leads U.S. in Incarceration of Black Men

  
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  Speaking of mass incarceration: Wisconsin leads the U.S. in incarceration of black men. There is no debate about the disproportional amount of black (and brown) men in prison across the United States. Whether this is a direct result of the genetic predisposition to crime — which is bullshit — the fact remains that ...
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• New York Times OpDoc: A True Satire Of The War on Some Drugs

  
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  While there is nothing genuinely funny about a seventy-five year prohibition on cannabis that has arrested over 25 million cannabis consumers, making fun of the failed policy never goes out of style, especially when done right, with aplomb, which the NORML staff occasionally highlights on an otherwise serious-minded ...
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• Judge Orders Police To Return Tacoma Man’s Marijuana

  
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  Talking to a friend yesterday, it was brought up that it’s shocking that black folks haven’t gotten to idea to sell weed in states where marijuana has been legalized. I mean, as much as petty weed possession charges disproportionately impact the lives of black (and brown) folks in the not-so-blind criminal ...
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• Show Notes 04/25/2013

  
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  Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 04/25/2013 Doctors urged to pause before they post, text or e-mail Doctors should not "friend" patients on Facebook, should text them with "extreme caution" and should use e-mail only with patients who understand the risks of lost privacy, says the latest set of guidelines ...
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• Weed Should Be Illegal Because It Is So Easy To Obtain

  
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  An Ohio legislator has decided that it is time to legalize marijuana in the state. Of course some are opposed. In a TV interview, an undercover police officer made the false gateway drug argument and then claimed, without a sense of irony, that it is too easy to obtain marijuana. Yes, a 27 year veteran of the war on ...
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• The Oxycontinental divide

  
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  There’s only one thing that infuriates the Drug Warriors more than illicit pharmaceuticals: licit pharmaceuticals. If J. Random Hophead for some reason can’t make it to the party with cold blue steel and sweet fire , he’ll happily, or perhaps anxiously, kick down your door, or mine, in search of Schedule ...
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• Libertarian Perspective: Drugs in America

  
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  Some cops say legalize drugs? Yes, many do and I will explain some of the reasons why. In America, we have strong moral feelings about drugs that can cloud reason, especially when coupled with a lack of understanding of history. It isn’t that those who clamor for tough laws and prison sentences are without ...
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• You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

  
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  As if we needed any more evidence that the War on Drugs has been a gigantic waste : In my opinion, too many people are still transfixed by terrorism despite the collapse of Al Qaeda over the last decade and the quite manageable—indeed, the quite well-managed—danger that terrorism presents our society today. If ...
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• U.S. Drug Czar: ‘I Was Wrong. Addiction Is Not A Moral Failing’

  
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  Gil Kerlikowske Timed to the release of the White House’s new “21st Century drug policy,” U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske admitted Wednesday that he has misunderstood drug abuse during his 37-plus year law enforcement career. Now, he said according to ABC News, he finally views drug abuse as a public health ...
  4 weeks ago

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