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Accept the facts–and end this futile 'war on drugs' - Johann Hari - The Independent »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
The proponents of the "war on drugs" are well-intentioned people who believe they are saving people from the nightmare of drug addiction and making the ...
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Seeing stimulus in the push to legalize pot »
Posted by: greenmac 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
In 1933, in the midst of the last Great Depression, one of the first acts of incoming Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was to set ...
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Can Reason Win the Drug War? »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Political Opinion
In these times of economic strife and fervent debate over health care, our great national culture war has been pushed to the side. But once ...
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With Holder Sworn in, Marijuana Advocates Seek to End DEA Raids »
Posted by: ameliog 11 months ago in News
On the day Eric Holder was sworn in as the new U.S. Attorney General, the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted raids on at least one ...
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The American War on Pot Rolls On »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The Office of National Drug Control Policy says, Americans spend $9 billion a year buying pot from Mexico; $10 billion on pot from Canada, and ...
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It's Obvious - California Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is 'Failed Public Health Policy' »
Posted by: alapoet 1 month, 1 week ago in News
In a laudable nod to the obvious, members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the ...
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Bootleggers’ Delights »
Posted by: populist 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Banning Sunday liquor sales pleases Baptists—and also pleases bootleggers by increasing demand for their services.
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The Drug War's Collateral Damage »
Posted by: populist 11 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Drug prohibition militarizes our police, enriches our enemies, undermines our laws, and condemns our sick to suffering.
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Abortion, public option, price might stop healthcare reform »
Posted by: Temlakos 3 weeks, 4 days ago in News
The Senate took up healthcare reform again today, and faces a triple threat involving questions about abortion, a government-run "public option," and the price that ...
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Drug Prohibition: Law Enforcement Is The Problem »
Posted by: populist 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The problem is not the War on Drugs, that is merely the symptom. The problem is that the government has the means to enforce laws ...
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Drug War Hogwash »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 5 months ago in Business & Finance
The fiasco some people call the "war on drugs" is proof positive that most people learn nothing from history. What happened when the government outlawed ...
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Subverting Democracy »
Posted by: RTHTGakaRoland 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
It is extraordinary to see the Obama Administration -- backed by establishment liberal papers like the Washington Post and New York Times -- urging democratic Honduras to ...
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End Prohibition (LEAP) »
Posted by: rimbaud 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Change will not come from the top on this issue. There's too much money to be stolen through asset forfeiture and too many politicians ...
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Academic Study Shows Marijuana Arrests Have No Impact On Usage Rates »
Posted by: alapoet 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
The most extensive study yet undertaken on U.S. marijuana arrests and penalties, released today, finds no relationship between marijuana arrest and use rates. The ...
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Happy Repeal Day! - Thanks FDR! - CHEERS! »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 1 year ago in Political News
In the 1916 presidential election, both Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson and Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes ignored the Prohibition issue, as was the case with ...
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