Monthly Archives: August 2010

Says Calvina Fay: Legalization would also create an influx in drugged-driving fatalities, more deteriorated neighborhoods, more divorce, more domestic violence, more child abuse, and more addiction! And yes, she is referring to cannabis. While she’s quite the tool now, once … Continue reading →

Cutbacks force police to curtail calls for some crimes Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime. Notice the glaring omission in that … Continue reading →

Mark Kleiman has a good post about some of the problems that are occurring in the unfortunate federal legal limbo of medical marijuana (like patients losing their jobs over drug tests): Cannabis, medicine, employment, and science He notes that it … Continue reading →

Tony Newman and Stephen Gutwillig have a really nice OpEd in today’s Santa Cruz Sentinel: California’s marijuana legalization initiative is already a winner Basically, the point of the OpEd is that, regardless of the outcome, Prop 19 is already a … Continue reading →

Editorial: The Rising Trend Against The War On Drugs (Globe and Mail, Canada) Toronto this week became the first city in the world to formally endorse the Vienna Declaration that states that war-on-drugs-style prohibitions are a costly failure, denounces the … Continue reading →

Baltimore Sun “I ended the war on drugs, if you didn’t know this war was over. That was last May,” Kerlikowske said. He characterized the decades-old war on drugs as an empty “bumper sticker,” saying the country was ready for … Continue reading →

Pretty funny, actually. Just Say Now tried to advertise on Reddit — you know, the discussion site with more discussions about marijuana and other drugs than just about anywhere else. Turns out Conde Nast, which owns Reddit, vetoed the ads … Continue reading →

Nobody seems to like her. I wrote a rather scathing article about her when she was nominated by President George W. Bush as Deputy Administrator of the DEA. She’s been strongly disliked by the medical marijuana community (she was standing … Continue reading →

Great advice from the ONDCP’s David Mineta at the drug czar’s “blog” Finally, talk to your kids! As a parent, I can vouch for the importance of teaching our children about the proper use versus abuse of drugs. See, excellent … Continue reading →

I’ve made fun of the idiotic notion of a drug free… well… anything, numerous times before. The idea of a drug-free goal is so laughable that few even bring it up anymore (not just the idea of eliminating all illicit … Continue reading →