Monthly Archives: January 2005

CU Citizens for Peace and Justice and Salem Baptist Church are hosting Forgiveness Weekend: Double Jeopardy or a New Beginning, February 18-20, in Champaign, Illinois, dealing with race, faith, and drug policy reform (full schedule and contact information at the … Continue reading →

“bullet” What Are They Smoking? by Gersh Kuntzman in Newsweek… It’s like what I’ve always been saying: The main problem with the federal government is that its marijuana stinks. (an article on the efforts to develop an alternative legal research … Continue reading →

I believe a brilliant satirist is developing at UC SantaBarbara. Check out Nathaniel Page’s column this week in the Daily Nexus Online. Have you ever seen the specter of a marijuana addict? It is one of a sickly skin-and-bones fiend, … Continue reading →

(Via Ethan Russo, M.D. in comment 21): GW Pharmaceuticals announces positive preliminary results in a Phase III clinical trial with Sativex¬ (a cannabis medicine containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)) in 177 patients with severe cancer pain. Dr Stephen Wright, … Continue reading →

“bullet” David Borden at Prohibition and the Media has a couple of interesting posts. He talks about a massive cocaine bust in Mississippi that took 60 people from 10 agencies, and involved a full 7 years to build a case … Continue reading →

“If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today he would see the drug war and the resulting over-incarceration of people of color as a major civil rights and human rights issue that must be addressed if we are to … Continue reading →

I missed this OpEd in the Washington Post earlier (it came out on Thursday). When conservatives break with their principles, they seem to become casual about breaking the law, too.æ Last year the then-General Accounting Office accused the Department of … Continue reading →

State Representative Ruth Jones McClendon (D-San Antonio) has introduced a measure that would allow the City of San Antonio to exclude people arrested for drug offenses from entering certain parts of the city except to go directly to their homes … Continue reading →

So it appears that President Bush is prepared to eliminate entire budget lines to reduce the deficit: He plans to fulfill his pledge to halve the record $413 billion federal budget deficit by submitting a 2006 budget next month that … Continue reading →

TalkLeft notes that the first post-Booker decision is out already, and it doesn’t sound good. Judge Paul Cassell took the Supreme Court’s decision that sentencing guidelines are no longer mandatory to mean that they should be followed in every case … Continue reading →