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Holder promises marijuana verdict coming ‘soon’
I have no idea what that means.
“We’re still in the process of reviewing both of the initiatives that were passed,” said Holder, speaking at the National Association of Attorney General annual conference in Washington, D.C.
“You will hear soon. We’re in the last stages of that review and […]
Lessons from some free Americans, taught on American soil.
For many decades, part of the prohibition tactic was to make illegal drugs so taboo that even discussing them was considered improper. People even whispered when they said the word “marijuana” as if some Orwellian hidden government microphones might catch that they were talking about drugs.
Of course, if people couldn’t talk about them, it […]
Lee Rosenberg makes sure we continue the important discussion of the nuances of cannabis and impaired driving in a post that discusses both what’s happening in Washington, and his own experiences driving.
It’s well-written and worth reading. I know we’ve had quite a few similar discussions here, and it will be a tricky battle that […]
Teenage sports star hanged himself over 50p worth of cannabis
Edward Thornber, 17, played lacrosse for England and planned to teach it in the US, an inquest heard.
But he feared a court appearance would ruin his American dream after he was caught smoking cannabis on holiday in Newquay, Cornwall. He originally accepted a warning, […]
The Economist has always been better than most on drug policy, and this piece – Illegal Drugs: The Great Experiment – is really outstanding.
The Economist has long argued that prohibition is illiberal in principle and harmful in practice, and that the least-bad way of dealing with drugs is to legalise and regulate their production […]
In yet another boneheaded ruling – this time unanimously – the Supreme Court has ruled that mistakes made by dogs in the field don’t count and that police have no interest in going on fishing expeditions in your car.
Wow.
We cannot depend on the Supreme Court for protecting citizens at all when it comes […]
That’s the intriguing question posed by John Ford in Marijuana Legalization: Why the Pot Business Needs Unions to Survive
Though the image of straight-laced hard-working blue-collar labor collaborating with hippy stoners doesn’t quite seem to match up, it is actually a match made in heaven. Labor union memberships have been flagging for some time, and […]
Those who don’t learn from history…
Marijuana legalization bill may threaten fabulous Prohibition II profits by Paul Carpenter
The next time they designed such a system, the gangsters and their allies were more clever. With Prohibition II, they skillfully made Americans believe the war on drugs was in the public’s interest.
The consequences of […]
This account of Mayor Bloomberg’s opposition to legalizing marijuana sure seems to indicate that he’s trying for the record.
Bloomberg: I Oppose Legalizing Marijuana
Bloomberg says he opposes legalizing marijuana because it’s stronger than it used to be. He added that if marijuana were legal, those dealers would just start selling something else, like cocaine.
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