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Monthly Archives: May 2014
The drug war takes another hit
Lots of media coverage about the new report out from the London School of Economics. Check out Time to rethink the war on drugs by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch at CNN, for example. How bad is it? The London School of Economics … Continue reading
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They just enforce the laws…
Very interesting video from a local news program interviewing Dennis Flaherty of the Minnesota Peace and Police Officers Association. This is a group that opposes and testifies against any medical marijuana bill in the state and which the Minnesota Governor … Continue reading
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Cannabis in Japan
Fascinating article in The Japan Times by Jon Mitchell: Cannabis: the fabric of Japan It’s about Junichi Takayasu – a man who has spent his life working to preserve knowledge of cannabis culture in Japan – a history which dates … Continue reading
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Policing a plethora of potheads
This is nothing but a silly letter to the editor, but the headline caught my attention: Marijuana legalization is truly indefensible Wow! Indefensible? Strong stuff. The letter was nonsense, but I loved this sentence. Law enforcement has a hard enough … Continue reading
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OpenVAPE throws allies under the bus; drug tests employees
For years, suspicionless drug testing has been used to demonize people, not make workplaces safer. And now, we’ve got some idiots in the cannabis business who are jumping on the drug testing bandwagon. This is really pathetic. O.penVAPE, the Nation’s … Continue reading
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Media nonsense
Maia Szalavitz has another excellent article, this time in Salon: How NBC and our reactionary media perpetuate the war on drugs Journalists are no less likely to take drugs than anyone else—indeed, in my admittedly anecdotal experience, they’re morelikely to … Continue reading
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