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The politics of Presidential pot statements
Note: This post is about the dirty underbelly of political maneuvering regarding federal cannabis politics. If you want to believe that people don’t make statements for political purposes, skip this post. As everyone knows, President Obama made a statement of … Continue reading
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Sullivan on Pot
Andrew Sullivan has a great piece today discussing David Frum’s article/follow-up regarding cannabis legalization. Frum on Pot Andrew gets to the right stuff very quickly, rightly criticizing the emphasis on nit-picking details, when the big picture is ignored completely. What … Continue reading
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A quick fisk
Our subject for this one: Mandy Saligari: Why Legalisation of Drugs Won’t Work in Huffington Post UK. According to her bio “Mandy Saligari is the Clinical Director and founder of Charter Day Care, Residential and Counselling treatment facility in Harley … Continue reading
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Oakland’s got guts
Oakland Insists It Can Defend Medical Pot Club SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The city of Oakland renewed demands to stay forfeiture proceedings against a local medical marijuana dispensary whose business it defends as a matter of state’s rights. Though the … Continue reading
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Legalization is not a stark alternative
David Frum drinks Kevin Sabet’s kool-aid: David Frum on the Perils of Legalizing Pot It’s a bizarre article that really demonstrates that Frum (to be most charitable) has done no research on the subject. For instance, he imagines a legalization … Continue reading
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Minor site issues
I upgraded WordPress to 3.5 today, and it appears that the Ajax Edit Comments plugin is not working. It’s sending you a lot of garbage when you comment and then not letting you in to edit (although the comments are … Continue reading
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
There’s a brand new and very worthy organization called the Freedom of the Press Foundation The Freedom of the Press Foundation is dedicated to helping promote and fund aggressive, public-interest journalism focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government. … Continue reading
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Hitchens entertains as usual
We’ve discussed Peter Hitchens fairly often, and he’s a bit of a one-note wonder when it comes to drug policy, but his writing is so damned entertaining, it’s hard to pass up. So you want to legalise cannabis? You must … Continue reading
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Drug free
I always get a perverse kick out of the cluelessness of these things… Goa’s Sunburn festival to be drug free Panaji, Dec 16 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said Sunday he will ensure that the Sunburn 2012 music festival … Continue reading
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Marijuana Users Not High Priority
So says President Obama to Barbara Walters. Marijuana Users Not High Priority for President Obama President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a “top priority” of federal law enforcement officials … Continue reading
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