Monthly Archives: April 2013

When Kevin Sabet tweeted a virtual thumbs up to an article, I thought I should go check it out: Not so fast! A case against legalizing marijuana by Daniel K. Duncan, director of community services for the National Council on … Continue reading →

Idaho Court of Appeals overturns marijuana DUI conviction BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a Boise man for driving under the influence of marijuana, a rare reversal for a kind of case … Continue reading →

A lot of people have been talking about the new Pew Research Poll showing that a majority now supports legalizing marijuana (for the first time in this major poll). I’m not at all surprised, and, to some extent, I was … Continue reading →

A very good article by Isabel Macdonald in The Nation: The GOP’s Drug-Testing Dragnet. The article goes into depth how drug testing industry came about in part as a back-door method to go after marijuana users… But the Reagan administration … Continue reading →

Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic: A Heartbreaking Drug Sentence of Staggering Idiocy John Horner, a 46-year-old fast-food restaurant worker, lost his eye in a 2000 accident and was prescribed painkillers. Years later, he met and befriended a guy who seemed … Continue reading →

In the previous post, I asked the commenters to discuss Mark Kleiman’s statement: Just 20 percent of users consume 80 percent of all the weed in the U.S., Kleiman said. (Forty-six percent of all alcohol consumed in the U.S. is … Continue reading →

I’ve got some things to discuss, but some big deadlines at work are keeping me busy. Here’s one of the things I wanted to talk about, so why don’t you take a stab at it? Are the economics sound? Are … Continue reading →