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Fixing the Criminal Justice system, and avoiding pitfalls

As noted in comments, Opposing Views has the info on the Senate Judiciary Committee plans this week:

This Thursday, December 3, members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will debate Senate Bill 714, The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009. The time and location of the hearing are available here […]

It’s been many […]

The bizarre limbo of medical marijuana

I’m one of those who believes that it’s best to have recreational marijuana use legal, but that it’s better to have only medical marijuana legal than no marijuana legal, and that medical marijuana legalization can help the rest of the population get behind further legalization.

That said, there’s no doubt that the sheer stupidity of […]

When political sites discover the drug war

Here at Drug WarRant, we don’t get a fraction of the kind of traffic that the major political blogs do, so I’m always pleased when they “discover” that drug policy is an actual, you know, issue.

Part of the problem has been that the drug war has been an equal-opportunity offender, with both the Democrats […]

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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