By Scott Morgan, Associate Editor, StoptheDrugWar.org In an apparent effort to prevent marijuana legalization from again dominating the discussion, Obama’s next online townhall event will not allow participants to vote on their favorite questions for the president. But what does that say about the politics of social media? And will […]
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Vancouver Injection Site Becomes Election Issue
Vancouver’s controversial safe injection site became an election issue Monday after yet another published study showed it has saved lives, prompting the study’s author to say Conservative policy on the site has no basis in fact. Critics demanded Prime Minister Stephen Harper drop his government’s opposition to the clinic and […]
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Drug Policy Research
Download over 650 peer-reviewed journal articles and significant reports on Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform! This comprehensive (and amazing) collection of references includes the following categories of papers: Alcohol harm reduction Cannabis Drug Education / prevention Drug policy documents – the need for change Drug policy history Economic issues […]
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By Huge Margins, Voters Want Drug Penalties Reduced
A whopping 72% of California voters support reducing the penalty for possession of a small amount of illegal drugs for personal use from a felony to a misdemeanor A brand new poll this week finds that a whopping 72% of California voters support reducing the penalty for possession of a […]
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Pot Laws Ruled Unconstitutional
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the federal medical marijuana program is unconstitutional, giving the government three months to fix the problem before pot is effectively legalized. In an April 11 ruling, Justice Donald Taliano found that doctors across the country have “massively boycotted” the medical marijuana program […]
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What is domestic surveillance?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 4-4-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 4-4-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3331 Question of the Week What is domestic surveillance? In a 2003 report, the American Civil Liberties Union warned, “In recent years – in […]
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What is naloxone?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-26-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-26-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3320 Question of the Week: What is naloxone? A Drug Profile for Naloxone HCl from the Arizona Department of Health Services describes the drug […]
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Drug Courts Are Not the Answer
Drug Courts are Not the Answer finds that drug courts are an ineffective and inappropriate response to drug law violations. Many, all the way up to the Obama administration, consider the continued proliferation of drug courts to be a viable solution to the problem of mass arrests and incarceration of […]
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Can people with a drug conviction vote?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-22-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-22-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3304 Question of the Week: Can people with a drug conviction vote? Just before the election last fall, the Sentencing Project reported, “… more […]