by Ethan Nadelmann Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. For those of us who fought long and hard to reform the notorious 100-to-one crack/powder cocaine disparity in federal law, the Fair Sentencing Act, signed by President Obama on August 3, is at once […]
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CMA Journal Article Backs Drug Injection Site
Federal government accused of ignoring addicts by opposing Vancouver site An article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal slams the federal government for its efforts to shut down Insite in downtown Vancouver, Canada’s only safe injection site for drug addicts. Injection booths at Insite in Vancouver. Insite is the first […]
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What makes drugs illegal?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 8-31-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 8-23-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3042 Question of the Week: What makes drugs illegal? It all has to do with a federal law passed in 1970. According to a […]
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Google to Run Just Say Now Ads Censored by Facebook
UPDATE! From FireDogLake http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/08/25/google-to-run-just-say-now-ads-censored-by-facebook/ By: Michael Whitney Wednesday August 25, 2010 12:21 pm Good news from Google: the search giant has accepted our marijuana legalization ads. The ads were removed by Facebook, which said the ads featuring a marijuana leaf were in violation of its policy – a decision the […]
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Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign
From the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/facebook-blocks-ads-for-p_n_692295.html. Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign by Ryan Grim For a typical college student, if it didn’t happen on Facebook, it didn’t happen. That gives the social networking behemoth an out-sized influence on the confines of political debate, if that debate falls outside […]
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Question of the Week: Does student drug testing achieve drug free students?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 8-23-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 8-23-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3031 Question of the Week: Does student drug testing achieve drug free students? As described in the July 2010 report from the U.S. Department […]
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Letter Writer Of The Month – July – Wayne Phillips
Newshawk: Published Letters Awards www.mapinc.org/lteaward.htm DrugSense recognizes Wayne Phillips of Hamilton, Ontario for his three letters published during July. This brings his total published letters, that we know of, to 81. Wayne writes as the Communication Director for Educators For Sensible Drug Policy http://efsdp.org/ You may read his published letters […]
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Lessons Not Learned Since Tragic Drug Raid in Atlanta
By Bill Piper Money spent prosecuting and jailing low-level offenders is money not being spent on drug treatment or education. It’s been almost four years since Atlanta narcotics officers shot and killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston and planted evidence in a failed attempt to frame her – and her family is […]
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Question of the Week: Is marijuana a gateway to hard drug use?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 8-17-10 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 8-17-10. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3022 Question of the Week: Is marijuana a gateway to hard drug use? The hypothesis that marijuana is a “pipeline” to heroin and other […]