Cannabis & Hemp

Does Sarah Palin Favor Legalization of Marijuana?

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

No, Sarah Palin doesn’t favor legalization of pot. But in a recent appearance with Rep. Ron Paul on the Fox Business Network, the half-term former governor of Alaska sounded … sensible. She said that while she opposes legalization–we don’t want to encourage kids to try it–she thinks that the police probably have more important things to do than bust adults who quietly toking up in the privacy of their own homes.

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Drug Policy and Violence in Mexico–Two Narratives

from The Cutting Edge, June 7th 2010 Two prevailing narratives have emerged in the American discourse over Mexico’s plague of drug violence. On the one hand, there are those who laud President Calderón’s hard-line anti-drug crusade while blaming Mexico’s plight entirely on Mexicans – on their “record of corrupt, weak […]