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Drugstore Cowboys
An excellent article in the American Prospect: “Drugstore Cowboys – How America’s wrongheaded war on drugs brought down Bolivia’s president” by Christopher Hayes …imagine, for a moment, how Paris would have reacted if, during Prohibition, Calvin Coolidge had begun paying … Continue reading
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La Anti Droga
Wednesday release from the Drug Czar’s office: White House Drug Czar, Surgeon General, and Partner Organizations to Address Drug Use Among Hispanic Youth “Marijuana use is a serious problem for all young people, but we are particularly concerned about the … Continue reading
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Winning the War on Drugs
I realized today that I missed something from the government’s most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Of course, they distributed the results they wanted known widely through … Continue reading
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Help reduce the number of those !#^$%#* TV Commercials!
In my in-box today from the Drug Policy Alliance: If you could slash the amount of your tax money being spent on absurd TV ads comparing marijuana smokers to terrorists, would you act right now? Is the pope catholic? Does … Continue reading
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You look nervous…
Again, via TalkLeft (as always on top of everything and incredibly prolific), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that nervousness alone cannot support a vehicle search when police stop the car for a traffic violation. The court invalidated … Continue reading
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Sigh…
Via TalkLeft and NORML: Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 45 Seconds Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 697,082 persons for marijuana violations in 2002, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime … Continue reading
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What are they smoking?
Via Vice Squad, this article by Deroy Murdock at NRO All seriousness aside, as funnyman Steve Allen often said, federal drug warriors keep embarrassing themselves by enforcing pointless, oppressive policies that merely ignite tax dollars as if with a Zippo … Continue reading
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Drug WarRant Merchandise now available!
I decided to open up a store at CafeShops with Drug WarRant T-shirts, mugs, underwear, and more. Here’s a few of the designs available on Drug WarRant products: A tribute to the pharmaceutical industry. My own response to the Drug … Continue reading
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Odds and Ends
Welcome to the folks from Matthew’s Are You Outraged? blog. It’s always great when another blogger opposed to the drug war stops by. You can get a feel for his posts by checking out The evil of Ashcroft and the … Continue reading
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U.S.A. Track and Field runs the wrong direction…
In USATF announces “Zero Tolerance” anti-doping plan, the organization is looking to step up efforts to stop athlete cheating and the use of performance enhancing drugs. But… … they’ve proposed a summit of major U.S. sports leagues be hosted by … Continue reading
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