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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Open Thread
I’ll be in New York from June 1-8, hosting a group of 98 people for a week of theatre and walking tours. That’ll probably keep me a little busy. I’ll be seeing “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night … Continue reading
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They just don’t make bongs like they used to
Experts Unearth 2,400-Year-Old Solid Gold Bongs In Southern Russia Among the items were a pair of gold vessels in the shape of a bucket, and they were placed upside down in the chamber. In addition to the vessels, there were … Continue reading
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When science isn’t forced to serve the God of Prohibition, it tells us something else entirely
Johann Hari, author of the outstanding “Chasing the Scream,” which you absolutely should read, continues to get the word out about the failures of our drug war through a large number of interviews and articles. His latest: Tragedy of Whitney … Continue reading
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Fixing neighborhoods
Very nice column by Neil Franklin, executive director of LEAP. This is Your Neighborhood on the Drug War Few people discussing the recent riots and protests in Baltimore have bothered to question why young people would feel angry enough to … Continue reading
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A rose by any other name…
In weird news… Man Asks City To Ban Fart Smells — For A Good Reason Last week, the City of Pendleton updated its nuisance ordinances to cover the smell of marijuana, NBC reported at the time. That means that even … Continue reading
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We don’t want our children getting hooked on marjoram
Can’t guarantee that this was an actual post, but it was too funny not to share.
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The fully demonstrated and absolutely unsurprising consequences of criminalization
Nice piece at The Age today by Michael Coulter: The long-running war on drugs has failed: we need to legalise now It would be nice to say that the war on drugs had achieved nothing. The truth is far worse. … Continue reading
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Pot science imbalance
Cute cover of Time Magazine with “The Highly Divisive, Curiously Underfunded, Strangely Promising, World of Pot Science” or The Great Pot Experiment by Bruce Barcott and Michael Scherer. Not a bad article about the politicization of pot science, although to … Continue reading
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We don’t make the laws…
How many times have we heard that? “We don’t make the laws; we just enforce them.” Of course, that’s complete crap, as any of us who have attended a legislative session about medical marijuana legalization know – seeing the law … Continue reading
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Unproductive
When I write on Facebook, it’s an entirely different audience — coming mostly from my work — so I write on a variety of subjects and I’m careful not to inundate them with drug war rants all the time. In … Continue reading
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