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Marinol markets itself as Legal Marijuana

Scott Morgan at StoptheDrugWar.org found this fascinating thing, and it deserves to be circulated: The makers of Marinol are actually marketing their product on Google as “Legal Marijuana.” If you search for Legal Marijuana in Google, you’ll see this:

As Scott says:

Drug warriors such as Andrea Barthwell and David Murray have argued strenuously that […]

Buy lingerie, help farmers

As an update to the Colombia government’s mock attack on Kate Moss for destroying their country by using cocaine(!), I particularly like Kerry Howley’s take at Reason Which goes something like this: We should buy lingerie to support Kate Moss, so she can afford to buy more cocaine, thus providing income to the poor farmers […]

We’re funding the Taliban again

OK, read this and explain to me why we’re eradicating the poppies…

Last week, British diplomats warned that an Afghan government program to eradicate opium poppy growing in Helmand province where 4,200 British troops are based, was likely to trigger heavy fighting. The Afghan government will begin the campaign against the drug lords as early […]

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Servetus on John Oliver on police drug raids: “Kamala Harris joined the Biden prohibition league and will not be supporting marijuana legalization at the federal level. What else…” Mar 2, 13:16
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