By Mason Tvert, Executive director and co-founder, SAFER According to an e-mail just unearthed by Complete Colorado, a Bush holdover in the U.S. Drug Czar’s office is fishing for information that links crime to the growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado. The e-mail is addressed to Colorado’s chief […]
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Marc Emery: U.S. Federal Prison Blog #5
Free from 21 days of isolation By Marc Emery (Marc Emery’s U.S. federal prison blog #5 originally ran here on the Cannabis Culture Web site.) At 6:00pm on Thursday, June 24th, I was finally released from solitary confinement after three weeks of isolation. The Disciplinary Hearing Officer was very gracious […]
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Experts call for new course on illegal drugs in fight against HIV
VIENNA (June 28, 2010): A team of experts and health organisations on Monday called for a scientific approach to illicit drugs, arguing that their criminalisation has been costly and ineffective and has fuelled a high HIV infection rate among intravenous drug users. The experts made the appeal in the lead-up […]
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Drug and Health
June 26 marks International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. According to World Drug Report 2010 by the UN, drug use is shifting towards new drugs and new markets. To better understand the current situation on drug use around the world, we have …. Guests: Jack Cole, Executive director […]
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UN, Western Nations Complicit in Drug Of…
UN, Western Nations Complicit in Drug Offender Executions, Report Says from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #638, 6/25/10 With the United Nations’ International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking set for tomorrow, the timing couldn’t be better for a new report from the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) decrying the […]
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Launch of world’s first prescription cannabis medicine
Porton Down, UK, 21 June 2010: GW Pharmaceuticals plc (GWP:AIM) today announces the UK launch of Sativex®, its Oromucosal Spray for the treatment of spasticity due to Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Sativex® is the world’s first prescription cannabis medicine and the UK is the first country in the world to grant […]
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In Which Another Drug Warrior Extracts Facts From His Behind
In Which Another Drug Warrior Extracts Facts From His Behind Another drug warrior invents facts. Check the video below from Stossel’s show last week, in which former ONDCP official and narcotics officer Paul Chabot debates former narcotics cop and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaker Neil Franklin. At one point, Chabot […]