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Hello everyone! This is my first DPA conference, and I am very happy that I came. There is a sense of great hope here for the future of the drug policy reform movement. I find most people here extremely knowledgeable, … Continue reading →

Hello Drug War Rant community! I am proud to be guest blogging here while attending the Drug Policy Alliance conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will do my best to cover the conference. Plus, I will try to throw in … Continue reading →

Feel free to talk about the conference and any of the sessions (or just where to get the best food) here.

Transform (UK) has, this morning, released their much-anticipated report: After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation. The entire 200+ page book is available for free download at their site as a pdf file (there’s also an executive summary available). … Continue reading →

So you sit there all proper and respectable, and ask me why I am a legalizer. A question of intellectual curiosity borne out of a desire to learn? No, it is a question of pre-determined judgement and disgust, As if … Continue reading →

Bradley C. Schreiber, a guy who has made his living from the drug war, has an OpEd in The Baltimore Sun: Drug war lacks a plan: To succeed against narcotics traffickers, Obama should let the drug czar be a drug … Continue reading →

The International Drug Policy Reform Conference begins tomorrow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, I won’t be there. I really hate missing out on the chance to see so many folks that I know mostly online. But hopefully you won’t miss … Continue reading →

This is huge news. According to Americans for Safe Access: HOUSTON — The American Medical Association (AMA) voted today to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value. The AMA adopted … Continue reading →

As everyone know, needle exchange programs work. They dramatically reduce disease and don’t increase drug abuse. That hasn’t stopped the neanderthal sado-moralists in Congress from reflexively opposing such programs. Progress was made last year, when Congress allowed the district to … Continue reading →

A stimulating and explosive point-counterpoint at CBS between retired Superior Court Justice (and LEAP member) James P. Gray, and Drug Free America Foundation’s David Evans (who looks like, if he could loosen up a little, the father on That 70’s … Continue reading →