Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Politics and Science of Medical Marijuana Today (Tuesday, March 17) at noon Eastern Featuring Donald Abrams, M.D., Director of Clinical Programs, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California; Robert DuPont, M.D., President, Institute for Behavior and Health; Rob … Continue reading →

Who ever thought that SSDP would be using a Barry McCaffrey quote as a recruitment slogan?

Linda Valdez has an fascinating OpEd in today’s Arizona Republic: Stem the violence, make marijuana legal Imagine you had a really smart bomb – a genius bomb – that could blow up the leaders of every drug cartel in Mexico. … Continue reading →

Who else would actually believe this crap? On the key issue of illegal drugs–the widely recognized source of criminal power in Mexico–the Obama administration is lurching dangerously in reverse. In his first statement on drug policy, Attorney General Eric Holder … Continue reading →

Radley Balko’s been covering the case of Derek Copp, a Grand Rapids student who was shot in the chest by a cop during a drug raid. The police still won’t release whether any drugs were found or, as Radley puts … Continue reading →

It’s something we hear quite often, but of course it just isn’t true. For more than five years, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Lt. Barbara Ferguson has been helping the men and women of the department protect the public. But instead … Continue reading →

I saw Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights last night at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Stunning. Now I’m off to take my train trip home and will be out of touch until Sunday night. “bullet” Rob Kampia will be appearing … Continue reading →

Glenn has been a strong supporter of drug policy reform for some time, and I even helped write a guest post on reform at his site several years ago. But he’s had a lot of other things on his plate … Continue reading →

This was a last minute deal no advance notice to speak of… Here’s a transcript of Friday night’s debate between Ron Paul and Stephen Baldwin on legalization.

So I was looking out the window at one point last night and saw a guy walk by, and I exclaimed “Hey, there’s a guy walking by with a cat on his head!” and the person I was talking to, … Continue reading →