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Chicago Sun Times Editorial: In Illinois, people who suffer from cancer and smoke marijuana to stem their nausea, reduce their pain or improve their appetite — well, those folks are criminals. This must end, and fortunately a proposal before state … Continue reading →

AP story: Government Winning Mexico Drug War, Despite Violence Now, after daytime shootouts and beheadings Ö 443 murders in the last three months of 2008 alone Ö Tijuana is quieter. Skeptics say the lull could be only a short-term truce … Continue reading →

Time Magazine gives very nice play to the drug decriminalization in Portugal, thanks to this excellent article by the always outstanding Maia Szalavitz. Glenn Greenwald points out the value of the article in Time at his Salon blog, and then … Continue reading →

Naturally, the recent flurry of legalization articles and stories in the media was bound to bring out the big guns of prohibition supporters, and they don’t disappoint. Here are three of biggest ones. “bullet” John Walters: Drugs: To Legalize or … Continue reading →

“bullet” Why wait for the feds? Iowa judge wants to know if marijuana has safe medical uses. A Polk County judge has ruled that the Iowa Board of Pharmacy must examine whether marijuana has an accepted medical use – a … Continue reading →

A must read by Steven B. Duke in the Wall Street Journal Also hopeless is the notion — now believed by almost no one — that we can keep the drugs from coming into this country and thereby cut off … Continue reading →

Mary Ann Akers in the Washington Post has a nice little feature on Howard Wooldridge’s work as a LEAP lobbyist, which includes this video:

For their 4/20 episode (don’t know how long this will stay up on youtube): Now that’s how you promote pot legalization! (Just in case you’re going crazy trying to place the tune, it’s “Me Ol’ Bamboo” from Chitty Chitty Bang … Continue reading →

A small good step by the Supreme Court yesterday in Arizona v. Gant regarding Fourth Amendment rights in cars, but the case of Savannah Redding isn’t looking too good. Reading the transcript of the oral arguments of Safford Unified School … Continue reading →

Drug War Torture Mexican soldiers fighting a war against drug cartels have arbitrarily detained suspects, beating and torturing them with electric shocks, a senior human rights official said on Wednesday. […] Soldiers charged with patrolling drug hotspots have detained suspects … Continue reading →