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Pot science imbalance

Cute cover of Time Magazine with “The Highly Divisive, Curiously Underfunded, Strangely Promising, World of Pot Science” or The Great Pot Experiment by Bruce Barcott and Michael Scherer. Not a bad article about the politicization of pot science, although to … Continue reading

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We don’t make the laws…

How many times have we heard that? “We don’t make the laws; we just enforce them.” Of course, that’s complete crap, as any of us who have attended a legislative session about medical marijuana legalization know – seeing the law … Continue reading

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Unproductive

When I write on Facebook, it’s an entirely different audience — coming mostly from my work — so I write on a variety of subjects and I’m careful not to inundate them with drug war rants all the time. In … Continue reading

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Help Wanted

Brilliant! Via Tom Angell at Marijuana.com One of the U.S.’s foremost drug policy reform organizations is lending a tongue-in-cheek assist to the country’s top anti-drug enforcement agency. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is taking out a mock “Help Wanted” ad … Continue reading

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It’s always the money

Nice little article in Time by Aileen Teague, a Ph.D. history student, about the impact on Mexico of the U.S. war on drugs. How Our War on Drugs Undermines Mexico But here’s the key point: And yet last year’s federal … Continue reading

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Government theft still going strong

This article is nothing new to us, but it’s a story that needs to be continually circulated so the rest of the population starts getting a little bit more pissed off about it. DEA to traveler: Thanks, I’ll take that … Continue reading

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Apparently, the only doctors who know what they’re doing are legislators

I know we’ve got a lot of veterans here, and this one is really going to make your head explode… GOP congressman warns pot is making our veterans psychotic In a debate on the House floor over the Department of … Continue reading

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Open Thread

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. It’s the end of the semester and I’ve been going non-stop with a variety of events and responsibilities. It’s great fun, but I’m completely wiped out. It’ll ease up after Commencement this coming … Continue reading

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David Simon, Baltimore, Drug War

David Simon has an outstanding interview with the Marshall Project. Nothing new to us here, but very well said… David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish I guess there’s an awful lot to understand and I’m not sure I understand all of … Continue reading

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The War on Drugs and the streets of our cities

The world is talking about Baltimore right now — another battleground between police and citizens who have lost respect for each other in large part due to the war on drugs. Freddie Gray a victim of America’s longest war Overall, … Continue reading

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