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Congress tells Drug Czar to shut up

Well, they didn’t really go that far, but they did put a good provision in the final ONDCP reauthorization bill (via Drug Policy Alliance)

(e) Prohibitions- None of the amounts made available [for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign] may be obligated or expended for…partisan political purposes, or express advocacy in support of or to […]

Canada — Drug Czar’s Puppet

Canada’s Tory government seems anxious to attach the strings and start dancing to John Walters’ tune. Internal documents show U.S. involvement in Canada’s national drug strategy

”The Harper government favours a U.S.-style approach to drug problems, which is to lock more people up and don’t treat it as a health problem, treat it as a […]

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Regarding the Marijuana Policy Project report on laws and teen use

I briefly mentioned the MPP report on Monday (Laws don’t curb teen marijuana use), and I wanted to point out a couple of less-than-stellar reviews that it got from drug policy reform fans.

Jacob Sullum has a thoughtful analysis at Reason The Drug Law Blog takes me to task for being inaccurate with my characterization […]

Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “Regarding the long sought question of whether cannabis use leads to psychosis in adolescents, an international study has exonerted cannabis…” May 5, 12:06
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “Tissue culture micropropagation has been developed for hemp and marijuana production to produce disease-free plants with enhanced vigor: MAY 4,…” May 4, 12:06
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “A new device called a psychLight developed at the University of California, Davis, allows researchers to access the activity of…” May 2, 12:30
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “If the U.S. government really wanted to do something to encourage young people not to use drugs, instead of arresting…” May 2, 11:07
fuktosay on Is Joe Biden an old dog?: “An ex-junky on his way to sainthood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPM_TOFMM-8&ab_channel=TheGuardian” Apr 30, 17:29
strayan on Colombia’s Proxy Drug War with Venezuela: “Vanda Felbab-Brown is back couchmates! https://mexicotoday.com/2021/04/23/opinion-will-cannabis-legalization-reduce-crime-in-mexico-has-it-in-the-u-s/” Apr 28, 16:41
Servetus on Senate Majority Leader: “E.W. Jackson says marijuana legalization in Virginia is demonic and that it is the result of Democrats who want to…” Apr 27, 18:18

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