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Regardless of what you may think about Venezuela and Chavez, you can’t fault him for wanting his country to not be under the thumb of the U.S., nor is his claim far-fetched that the DEA agents that he kicked out … Continue reading →

“bullet” At the Cato Institute today, at 4:00 pm (Eastern) Should No-Knock Police Raids be Rare-or Routine? (POLICY FORUM) Featuring Cheye Calvo, Mayor, Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Radley Balko, Senior Writer, Reason and author of Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police … Continue reading →

The first salvo of responses to the Erowid article — Towards a Culture of Responsible Drug Use — is now up. It is Jonathan Caulkins, Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University‰s Qatar Campus and Heinz … Continue reading →

I don’t know if you’ve followed the comments section on this post regarding Karin Litzcke’s article about Insite. I came down pretty hard on Karin Litzcke, and I still think her article deserved it, but I’ve got to say that … Continue reading →

More on Towards a culture of responsible drug use… Daksya has started a discussion on the topic over at MetaFilter that’s worth checking out. And we’ll be following Cato’s discussion all week.

Now, all I have to do is send that statement to James Kinsella, Managing Editor of Cape Cod Today, and he’ll print it, merely “balancing” it by getting someone else to say “No, marijuana won’t wash your clothes, do your … Continue reading →

I must admit… I never thought I’d see an effective political ad that advocated a 15-year-old’s use of marijuana. [Thanks, Herb]

The lead essay over at Cato Unbound this month is outstanding: Towards a Culture of Responsible Drug Use by Earth and Fire Erowid. There will be reaction essays coming out later this week by Jonathan Caulkins, Jacob Sullum, and Mark … Continue reading →

The Agitator/Reason’s Radley Balko will be appearing live online at The Art of the Possible on Wednesday at 7 pm Eastern, and will be taking real-time questions from readers in the comments.

“bullet” Real Commander Needed for the War on Drugs by Neal Peirce Will America’s ill-starred “war on drugs” and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign? Standard wisdom says “no way.” We may have the world’s highest … Continue reading →