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Several others have already commented on Mark Souder going off the deep end in a letter to HHS (reported in the Washington Times). He was pissed off because Health and Human Services was listed as a sponsor for a conference … Continue reading →

A Peter Bagge cartoon at Reason.

Via The Agitator comes this story… Sheriff George H. Payne, Jr. destroyed 500 marijuana plants in a field… except that they weren’t marijuana plants — they were kenaf plants being grown for deer food. Now kenaf plants can have a … Continue reading →

In a Christian Science Monitor article about the drug cartel violence in Mexico (remember, we trained many of them), John Walters says: “In a way the violence is terrible but also a sign that the cartels are being squeezed by … Continue reading →

A big thanks to Kevin, who sent me the August editorial in Nature Neuroscience titled “Brewing a pot of hysteria.” Although the benefits of smoking marijuana remain controversial, the government has already decided that THC itself has medical benefits. Marinol … Continue reading →

Michael Mayo has an excellent column in today’s Sun-Sentinel: An ounce of pot, 10 bullets and one failed drug war “What in the hell were they doing with a SWAT team?” asked Eleanor Shockett, a retired Miami-Dade circuit judge who … Continue reading →

Via Cannabis News, check out this article by Laura McPhee in Nuvo (Indiana) Cannabis Cure: Miracle or Myth? However, an examination of the facts about marijuana demonstrates that the most common and dangerous myths about America‰s most widely used illegal … Continue reading →

Link CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – The United States has revoked the U.S. visas of six Venezuelan military officers, including a top anti-drugs chief, just days after President Hugo Chavez ended cooperation with Washington’s anti-narcotics agency. Of course, the interesting thing … Continue reading →

It’s official. Computer games have caused more overdose deaths than marijuana.

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