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I mail myself a copy of the Constitution every morning just on the hope that [the government] will open it and see what it says. –Bill Maher

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I’m sorry, I probably shouldn’t let my feelings get away like that. And I should have been smart enough to not listen to this radio program featuring ONDCP’s “Dr.” David Murray and gambler/sado-moralist/former drug czar William Bennett. So Bill Bennett … Continue reading →

Take the quiz. It’s a tricky one.

Two years ago I reported about a particularly heinous police action in Flint, Michigan. Innocent partygoers at Club What’s Next were strip searched and arrested for “frequenting a drug establishment” simply because someone else at the club possessed illegal drugs. … Continue reading →

Link The film’s visibility just raised a couple more notches. Think he’ll play Coleman?

“bullet” First the good: Via TalkLeft — Link: A federal judge threw out criminal charges today against an Oakland man accused of growing medical marijuana, ruling that authorities had vindictively prosecuted him because of remarks he made after he successfully … Continue reading →

HBO opens up a big new project tomorrow night: Addiction, a 14-part documentary produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism … Continue reading →

“bullet” RSA Drugs Report – so near and yet so far. The Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog has updated and expanded its outstanding analysis of the new RSA report. “bullet” Another Walter Reed Scandal by Fred Gardner explores the other … Continue reading →

Good news. Some members of Congress have finally stopped being scared wimps long enough to actually acknowledge that the sentencing disparities between the two forms of cocaine are unfair and unjust. In the Senate, Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama is … Continue reading →