Author Archives: Pete

If we want to save more lives,we need to stop drug-testing peopleand start drug testing… drugs. We’ve been doing it all wrong. What got me thinking about drug testing this morning was this headline in a piece at Release: The … Continue reading →

Big Government-Supported Study Finds No Evidence That Medical Marijuana Laws Encourage Teenagers to Smoke Pot A study reported [earlier this week] in The Lancet Psychiatry, based on 24 years of survey responses from more than 1 million students, finds no … Continue reading →

This is completely off topic for drug policy, but as many of you know, I have a number of different active parts of my life. One of them is a performance company called The Living Canvas, which has specialized in … Continue reading →

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a company can fire a worker for their use of marijuana off the job, even if there’s no evidence that they were impaired on the job. Now, without even getting into the nuances of … Continue reading →

This is just unreal… Safe pot? Tell that to the 62 kids who died by Sheila Polk, Yavapai County Attorney and vice chair of Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy. Marijuana is an addictive and hazardous drug. But lately, some have … Continue reading →

William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn dropped a load in the L.A. times with What happned to the marijuana stigma? Twenty years ago, drug dealers were seen for what they were — criminal and dangerous elements in our society. They … Continue reading →

As cops raided pot shop, they allegedly ate edibles, threatened disabled staff It’s an edited video, so it may have been set to focus on elements that made the cops look bad, but still, this needs to be fully investigated. … Continue reading →

I couldn’t resist… just too funny (I’m assuming it’s a parody site, unless it’s proven otherwise, simply because it’s too easy to get fooled by them). Still… This “Cannibis” sounds pretty dangerous.

As I wrote yesterday morning, NIDA has had an agenda that “focuses on prohibition and abstinence, rather than harm reduction and respect of human agency.” So I was surprised to see this blog post yesterday in NIDA for Teens: Concerts … Continue reading →

I noticed this call for papers from NIDA: Harnessing Insights from other Disciplines to Advance Drug Abuse and Addiction Research The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is seeking submission of ideas from the general public on how to leverage … Continue reading →