Monthly Archives: November 2009

Transform (UK) has, this morning, released their much-anticipated report: After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation. The entire 200+ page book is available for free download at their site as a pdf file (there’s also an executive summary available). … Continue reading →

So you sit there all proper and respectable, and ask me why I am a legalizer. A question of intellectual curiosity borne out of a desire to learn? No, it is a question of pre-determined judgement and disgust, As if … Continue reading →

Bradley C. Schreiber, a guy who has made his living from the drug war, has an OpEd in The Baltimore Sun: Drug war lacks a plan: To succeed against narcotics traffickers, Obama should let the drug czar be a drug … Continue reading →

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference begins tomorrow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, I won’t be there. I really hate missing out on the chance to see so many folks that I know mostly online. But hopefully you won’t miss … Continue reading →

This is huge news. According to Americans for Safe Access: HOUSTON — The American Medical Association (AMA) voted today to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value. The AMA adopted … Continue reading →

As everyone know, needle exchange programs work. They dramatically reduce disease and don’t increase drug abuse. That hasn’t stopped the neanderthal sado-moralists in Congress from reflexively opposing such programs. Progress was made last year, when Congress allowed the district to … Continue reading →

A stimulating and explosive point-counterpoint at CBS between retired Superior Court Justice (and LEAP member) James P. Gray, and Drug Free America Foundation’s David Evans (who looks like, if he could loosen up a little, the father on That 70’s … Continue reading →

It has always amazed me the extent to which legislators (and the drug war industry) go way beyond criminalizing drug possession and sale, to the point of creatively finding ways to criminalize all sorts of other activities. Part of this … Continue reading →

The AP has a story — Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? by David Crary — about treatment, its relative value compared to enforcement, and how states are hesitant to, as Scott Burns says, “put their money … Continue reading →

I’m up in Chicago for the day with the Illinois State University Improv Mafia — an awesome group competing in the College Improv Regional Tournament. So I’m a bit out of touch. What’s going on? DrugSense Weekly – a weekly … Continue reading →