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Tomorrow, the state senate Health and Human Services Committee is scheduled to hold hearings on a medical marijuana bill — S.B. 2568. If you live in Illinois, call or write your State Senator today. Here’s an easy way to send … Continue reading →

Sometime this past week, Allan pointed out to me this bit of nonsense by Cliff Kincaid: Soros Infiltrates the Conservative Movement. Cliff, who is an ignorant drug war cheerleader and always writes bizarre anti-reformer screeds (example), decided to complain about … Continue reading →

Julian Sanchez is blogging at CPAC Professional virgin Ben Shapiro just strolled by talking about his highly nuanced position on the war on drugs: “People who use marijuana piss me off, so I support their prosecution.” Which seems more or … Continue reading →

Flex Your Rights blog has the info on 87 women who were illegally searched for drugs at O’Hare airport. They’ll be receiving a $1.9 million settlement. At airports, only “reasonable suspicion” is necessary to justify brief detentions and searches, but … Continue reading →

Link (thanks to Matt) OK, here’s the smart, reasonable public official who knows how to set priorities: Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek, who oversees the University of Iowa in Iowa City, told a legislative committee he would treat possession of … Continue reading →

Link More Americans (some 575,000) died of cancer last year than perished in all our last centuries’ wars combined, but why no anger? We should be angry. We went to war against cancer 35 years ago and haven’t won. President … Continue reading →

So the Drug Czar went to Denver to announce the new National Drug Control Strategy. Gee, I wonder why he went there? Marijuana Policy Project was all over that move… White House Drug Strategy: Use Tax Dollars to Campaign Against … Continue reading →

Drug WarRant is expanding. Today, I added Drug WarRant.net — intended to be a community site as a companion to Drug WarRant.com. Right now there is a messageboard, and soon there will be a Wiki for developing a set of … Continue reading →

There’s a great new film about the drug war making its debut this month. John Holowach has created a serious documentary that’s lots of fun to watch. And while the title, High: the True Tale of American Marijuana gives you … Continue reading →

Jim’s post of the same name at Vice Squad is a fascinating read… Let me suggest four reasons. The first is simply the tyranny of the status quo. …and it’s a status quo with a hell of a lot of … Continue reading →