Monthly Archives: September 2008

I must admit… I never thought I’d see an effective political ad that advocated a 15-year-old’s use of marijuana. [Thanks, Herb]

The lead essay over at Cato Unbound this month is outstanding: Towards a Culture of Responsible Drug Use by Earth and Fire Erowid. There will be reaction essays coming out later this week by Jonathan Caulkins, Jacob Sullum, and Mark … Continue reading →

The Agitator/Reason’s Radley Balko will be appearing live online at The Art of the Possible on Wednesday at 7 pm Eastern, and will be taking real-time questions from readers in the comments.

“bullet” Real Commander Needed for the War on Drugs by Neal Peirce Will America’s ill-starred “war on drugs” and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign? Standard wisdom says “no way.” We may have the world’s highest … Continue reading →

David Simon, writer/creator of “The Wire,” joins other writers at Mother Jones to discuss How to Fix a Post Bush Nation – a guide to the next first 100 days: How to Fix It: Lose the Drug War“We are the … Continue reading →

“bullet” None of us is safe from police raids by Vera Leone That’s what makes the Berwyn Heights case so potentially important: It is opening a window into the realities lived every day by innocent victims and survivors of the … Continue reading →

If you haven’t seen it before, here’s the commercial that it’s spoofing. [Thanks, Paul!]

In my ideal world, Insite (North America’s first legal supervised drug injection site) would be even more effective in a legalized drug regime, supplying clean controlled drugs and eliminating the black market, rather than being simply a place to safely … Continue reading →

Here’s the headline: Cannabis users warned as high- strength skunk floods marketby Daily Mail Reporter Yeah, I wouldn’t want to put my name on this story either. Cannabis users are increasingly opting for high-strength skunk because weaker varieties of the … Continue reading →

It’s baaack… I thought that maybe, maybe, after we woke people up to the lies and nastiness of the exhibit when it was in Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry, and when it then was moved to a … Continue reading →