One issue largely missing in action during the presidential campaign has been the Drug War, and all the policy implications for addiction treatment that go with it. Our thanks go out to OnTheIssues blog for compiling the admittedly skimpy record of public statements about drug policy by both candidates. In this post, we examine the [...]
Continue reading...15. June 2008
Rising marijuana potency levels have been a favorite propaganda tool in the War On Drugs for years, in an effort to convince the public to shun the Evil Weed. Like higher potency is a bad thing!? No doubt you’ve read news of the latest annual report by the University of Mississippi Marijuana Potency Project, that [...]
Continue reading...17. February 2008
The ACLU is calling the criminalization of marijuana the equivalent of alcohol prohibition in the 1920s.
Continue reading...1. February 2008
The War On Drugs is even more of a failure than The War On Terrorism. And what’s the common denominator between these two failed wars…? U.S. government policy. Gee, I always thought that if you bang your head against the same brick wall and you never get anywhere, then that means you probably need to [...]
Continue reading...26. November 2007
Pot should be legal for no other reason than that it’s a personal choice that doesn’t affect anyone else. That said, there are actually a lot of other reasons why it should be legalized (and I’m not just talking about medical marijuana either). This guy has written about the best laid out argument for legalizing [...]
Continue reading...24. October 2007
This is a really good video, but you definitely don’t want to watch it while you’re high. The information is fascinating – but in a very dry kind of way (think 8th grade Social Studies class). The narrator’s voice is hypnotic (read: monotonous, lol). I totally zoned out the first time I tried to watch [...]
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10. August 2008
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