Author Archives: Pete

Every year, elementary students are encouraged to do the most bizarre activities in furtherance of the DEA-glorifying Red Ribbon week. Here’s another one: Creating a drug-free message, which includes things like “crazy sock day with a reminder to ‘Sock Out … Continue reading →

Link The irony for the U.S. government is that Mexico, and the rest of the world, now has a U.S. precedent to cite when creating blueprints for a post-Drug War world. “Now we are not like madmen in the desert,” … Continue reading →

Jim Corbett of USA Today Sports put out the most clueless piece today regarding the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, with assistance from Lindsay Jones and Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today Sports: Amendments don’t change leagues’ stances on … Continue reading →

Cannabis legalisation in Washington and Colorado: A game changer at Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog Thirdly, there is the clash with international law. The new Colorado and Washington legislation puts the states in clear breach of the general obligation of … Continue reading →

Some of the network media have been trying to cover the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington and clearly are in catch-up mode, not really knowing how to talk about it. And they’re completely thrown by the fact that … Continue reading →

Norm Stamper has a good little piece in the Huffington Post: Washington State to the ‘Other’ Washington: Look But Don’t Touch We now respectfully invite the federal government to look at, indeed to study our decision and its implementation. But … Continue reading →

Just for fun, we’ll throw in a little video of Halle Berry bugging Jay Leno about smoking pot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScKWTssKZY&sns=em And for election geeks out there, this is a fascinating interactive chart showing the various paths to electoral victory for Obama … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of studies that you’re not likely to see discussed by some of the drug policy “academics.” Would liberalization lead to epidemic cocaine consumption? – an economic study by Norman V. Loayza and Naotaka Sugawara. The answer … Continue reading →

Third-party debate (Johnson, Stein, Goode, Anderson) tonight (Sunday) at 7:30 pm Eastern Busboys and Poets. The debate will be moderated by Ralph Nader, and will focus on subjects and issues that have largely been ignored or avoided, as they are … Continue reading →