Author Archives: Pete

Thought for the day: Prohibition is not a victimless crime.

The House voted on a number of amendments yesterday regarding marijuana and the states. This is another sign of how far we’ve come. Reform in the federal legislature is generally the slowest. Tom Angell from Marijuana Majority sent me some … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Can’t guarantee that this was an actual post, but it was too funny not to share.

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 →

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 →