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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The easiest candidate questioning by SSDP this week
Students for Sensible Drug Policy has been doing a great job getting out to the candidate events in New Hampshire and trying to force the GOP candidates to say something about drug policy (with sometimes bizarre results). This was clearly … Continue reading
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Things I didn’t expect to see
Progress? 1. Police advisor says we need to reconsider use of forced entry warrants.
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Science once again knows more than prohibitionists
Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage by Maia Szalavitz in TIME. Marijuana does not impair lung function—at least not in the doses inhaled by the majority of users, according to the largest and longest study ever to consider … Continue reading
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Spliff Pinball
There are all kinds of anti-drug governmental programs around the world and the UK has its own propaganda mascot called Frank. Frank is there to help you, and has even opened his head to help you play Spliff Pinball. Spliff … Continue reading
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Shifting political identification
A new gallup poll shows 31% of the public identifies themselves as Democrats and 27% as Republicans. If, when you take a quick look at those numbers, it seems that a whole lot of people aren’t included, your math skills … Continue reading
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Marijuana leads to… beards!
There are still pockets of reefer madness that pop up every now and then. This one from Dr. Ruairi Henley writing in the Irish Times is particularly amusing: I was aware during my college years of the existence of a … Continue reading
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Keith Humphreys’ and Jonathan Caulkins’ dance cards are full of straw men
Check out this whopper of an opening sentence in the Guardian: The loudest voices in US drug policy debates call either for enforcing prohibition with ever-increasing ferocity or for giving up altogether by letting corporations legally sell the currently illicit … Continue reading
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Can Ron Paul wake up stagnant progressives?
…Just some two-bit political analysis on my part. I’ve been fascinated the past couple of weeks by the vehemence of some of the political pundit discussions regarding Ron Paul’s candidacy. (Note: Keep in mind that when I talk about progressives/liberals/conservatives … Continue reading
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Meet my special hamster.
I have a new helper in the fight against the smuggling of endangered species. It’s a hamster named Sergeant Cheeks. He is able to detect the presence of endangered species or protected elements of endangered species (feathers, tusks, etc.) in … Continue reading
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If a dog alerts to the 4th Amendment, does it exist?
The Supreme Court announced that it will hear the Florida case regarding using a dog sniff as cause to search a house. This is, of course, the ultimate extension of the atrocious decision authored by Justice Stevens in Caballes v. … Continue reading
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