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Meet the new Chair of the House Government Reform Committee
With the Democrats taking the House, the biggest thing to happen is a shift in committee chairs. The new head of the House Government Reform Committee (which includes Drug Policy) will most certainly be Henry Waxman (CA). Waxman voted in … Continue reading
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Election Discussion
Talk about the results here. CNN’s results page is a start for getting info.
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Ruminations on Republicans and Democrats and drug policy
A good discussion on yesterday’s voting post, so I thought I’d continue it here (these are my own thoughts — your mileage may vary). And since third party candidates are still mostly excluded by the system, I’m going to focus … Continue reading
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Drugs implicated in death in Florida autopsies
Over at the Drug Czar’s “blog”, they say A new autopsy report from Florida gives us another reason to continue our focus on reducing the non-medical use of prescription drug Say what? Your focus? This, from the office that’s been … Continue reading
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Voting
I hope you’re all excited and ready to vote tomorrow. Even if the options aren’t the greatest, try to find one good reason to vote for or against someone or some issue. You don’t have to vote for all of … Continue reading
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Marinol markets itself as Legal Marijuana
Scott Morgan at StoptheDrugWar.org found this fascinating thing, and it deserves to be circulated: The makers of Marinol are actually marketing their product on Google as “Legal Marijuana.” If you search for Legal Marijuana in Google, you’ll see this: As … Continue reading
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Buy lingerie, help farmers
As an update to the Colombia government’s mock attack on Kate Moss for destroying their country by using cocaine(!), I particularly like Kerry Howley’s take at Reason Which goes something like this: We should buy lingerie to support Kate Moss, … Continue reading
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We’re funding the Taliban again
OK, read this and explain to me why we’re eradicating the poppies… Last week, British diplomats warned that an Afghan government program to eradicate opium poppy growing in Helmand province where 4,200 British troops are based, was likely to trigger … Continue reading
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