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Moving beyond the stoner stereotype
Via 420Intel, the Drug Policy Alliance has developed a set of stock photos that’s available for use for free. Media outlets continue to use stereotypical “stoner” images for otherwise serious news stories about marijuana. The Drug Policy Alliance is offering … Continue reading
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The drug war in popular fictional entertainment
The recent explosion of comic-book-sourced movies and television shows have had the luxury of creating entire classes of bad guys – meta-humans, aliens, super villains, etc., and there’s no need for writers to actually know anything about the science, economics, … Continue reading
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Kofi Annan- ‘We must decriminalize personal drug use’
Powerful essay in Spiegel by Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations: Lift the Ban! Kofi Annan on Why It’s Time To Legalize Drugs Prohibition has had little impact on the supply of or demand for drugs. When … Continue reading
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More on Drug War Economics
Over the years here, we’ve talked a lot about economics and the drug war, and how obvious it is that the drug war cheerleaders are clueless (sometimes intentionally) about the basics of economics. NPR did a piece about Tom Wainwright, … Continue reading
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The implications of the Apple letter
For those who haven’t noticed, there has been a bit of a blow-up regarding a dispute between the FBI and Apple Computers. The FBI is trying to break into the iPhone of a suspected terrorist, but they can’t brute force … Continue reading
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Open Thread
I was just informed that my hosting service moved the virtual server for Drug WarRant.com to a new location. There was a temporary outage, but it seems to be back. Please let me know if you experience any new problems … Continue reading
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Treatment Reform
Maia Szalavitz takes on an important area that needs significant reform: the treatment industry. The Rehab Industry Needs to Clean Up Its Act. Here’s How. There are so many areas of this industry that are broken or just plain corrupt. … Continue reading
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A Justice opens the door a bit on Supreme Court acceptance of the Constitutional right of jury nullification
Of course, the concept of Jury Nullification (choosing to find a defendant not-guilty because of your disagreement with the law) is a time-honored Constitutional power of the jury. After all, the jury of peers is the highest judge of the … Continue reading
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President’s drug control budget is a first, but still a whole lot of wasted money
For years, those of us in drug policy reform have pointed out that, while the government talks about prevention and treatment, the federal government budget has always been weighted toward enforcement and interdiction. It’s been really telling that, while they … Continue reading
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Another SuperBad Advertisement
Via Making Noise in the South, A Super Serving of Shame and Stigma for Super Bowl 50 The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (NCADA) is hitting us again at the Super Bowl. This time with “All American Girl” … Continue reading
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