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Nevada paper comes out for legalization

The rural Lahontan Valley News came out in favor of Nevada’s marijuana legalization initiative

It’s time to pass this multi-pronged approach to marijuana regulation and end years of speculation and fruitless debates. What the initiative offers is a chance for voters to change a decades-long war on marijuana that has failed to curb its prevalence […]

Michigan High Court rules in favor of drugged driving arrests for no valid reason

Nicholas Sarwark at Hammer of Truth has it right.

Soares, a reform fighter who won’t back down when criticized

Interesting article by Nathan Riley in the Gay City News about upstate New York District Attorney David Soares, who has made quite a bit of news lately. The important point in this article is noting that here is a drug policy reform politician who stuck to his guns, despite the usual sound-bite attacks, and seems […]

Bias’ unintended legacy

I was beginning to despair as to whether any of the non-blog media would cover the real story about the aftermath of Len Bias’ death, but a couple have come through. Kevin Litten of the University of Maryland’s Diamondback had contacted me about Len Bias, and I was able to steer him toward some alternate […]

Shock and Awe

Radley Balko’s got a good piece at Reason: Buffalo’s Stampede Against Privacy — City of Light’s finest bomb houses, arrest scores, kill dogs, and achieve nothing

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