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Wonderful holiday wishes to all Drug WarRant readers, and especially to the regular couch-mates who make this place special.
I just finished my last day of work yesterday, and look forward to discovering what retirement will bring. But first, I’m hitting the road for the holidays to visit family and friends.
For those sticking around, […]
We’ve often talked here about the fact that suspicionless drug testing in most situations is wrong, and doesn’t actually work, whether it’s in high schools, for welfare recipients, or on the job. And, of course, it’s a big business.
It’s bad enough at the high school level, but college?
Here are two pieces from StopTheDrugWar.org’s […]
Via Huffington Post Weird News comes this remarkably absurd anti-marijuana campaign out of Australia.
Supposedly, it’s the work of Australia’s New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet.
And there’s a website.
Thanks to Tom Angell for the info:
This is regarding the lawsuit against Colorado by those states, because they feel harmed by the cost of having to arrest people in their own states for possessing marijuana.
Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae
The motion for leave to file a bill of complaint should […]
Hard to think about the year being over soon, but we are starting to see year-in-review pieces.
Phillip Smith has one at Alternet: The People Are Rising Up Against the Destructive Drug War: 8 Key Developments
The items he notes are:
1. The sky hasn’t fallen on legal marijuana states. 2. The marijuana majority solidifies. […]
“I want there to be a thousand Kevins,” he exclaims. “There can’t be just one Kevin. Kevin is not going to be able to do this alone. Kevin can’t just do this year after year, he is going to have a heart attack.”
Sure, I understand the argument for just not talking about him, but […]
You may have heard that the USPS recently issued a memo to newspapers in Oregon stating that it’s illegal to mail pieces with advertisements for marijuana because it’s Schedule 1.
Now members of Congress are demanding answers.
Lawmakers Question Postal Service About Marijuana Ad Threats to Newspapers by Tom Angell
A group of members of […]
Yes, it’s Andrea Barthwell again, a lady who changes drug war scams more often than some people change clothes. A huckster, a shyster, a drug warrior (former deputy drug czar) with no interest in the truth. This site has shut down a couple of her enterprises (Illinois Marijuana Lectures, and End Needless Death on the […]
In my other life on Facebook, I’m always on the watch for fake news – it’s become endemic to today’s online world. And I’m not talking about the good satire from The Onion that has the intention of giving you a good laugh while making commentary — there are a lot of sites that purposely […]
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