Daily Archives: May 12, 2004

The place to be on August 30th…

… is 7th Avenue between 28th and 34th Streets (outside Madison Square Garden) from 2pm to 6pm. That’s when Russell Simmons and others are hosting a massive rally and hip-hop summit to protest the Rockefeller drug laws in New York … Continue reading

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Your brain on drug ads

Via Hit and Run: Carson B. Wagner, an advertising professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has studied the effects of anti-drug ads on viewers using a technique known as response latency measurement of strength of association: “Rather than … Continue reading

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Economies dwarfed by drug trade

The San Jose Mercury News had an article by Mark McDonald on Sunday; Heroin Trade Booms in Afghanistan: New Wealth Helps Terrorists Rebuild, Threatens Neighbors This is more of what we’ve already talked about — the heroin trade is really … Continue reading

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