In 2009, the United Nations Member States decided to make further and decisive progress, within a decade, in controlling illicit drug supply and demand. Many illicit drug markets have reached global dimensions and require control strategies on a comparable scale. In that context, there is a need to better understand […]
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Ethan Nadelmann Debates O’Reilly About Failed Drug War
Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance debates Bill O’Reilly about the Failed War on Drugs. The segment also shows a DPA video that features Sting and Montel Williams.
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My First Visit With My Husband, Marc Emery
I went to visit Marc today for the first time at SeaTac FDC. Thankfully, I’m able to visit him even while he’s in SHU (“segregated housing unit”, solitary confinement). When I arrived at 1:30pm, it was very nerve-racking. I stepped up to the massive building’s entrance, got buzzed in, then found myself in a big lobby with a reflective glass booth and a little hole to pass ID and paperwork through.
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Police Shoot, Kill Grandmother’s Dog
A 62-year-old grandmother in Washington, DC tells AP that police came to her home serving a drug warrant for her 28-year-old grandson. The grandma asks to put her dog in the back yard or the bathroom. The cops tell her the bathroom would be fine. Later, the cops open the […]
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Drug Raids: Las Vegas Narc on Marijuana Hunt Kills Father-to-Be in
A 21-year-old father-to-be was killed last Friday night by a Las Vegas Police Department narcotics officer serving a search warrant for marijuana. Trevon Cole was shot once in the bathroom of his apartment after he made what police described as “a furtive movement.
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Joe Califano: Just as stupid as ever; after all these years.
June 19, 2010 Joe Califano: Just as stupid as ever; after all these years. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., is a native New Yorker, Harvard educated lawyer, and career bureaucrat who entered federal service in 1961 after a stint in the Navy and soon became a behind-the-scenes power in the Johnson […]
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Why Californians Should Vote In Favor of Tax & Regulate
Why Californians Should Vote In Favor of Tax & Regulate In Northern California there is a debate raging among commercial marijuana growers over whether they should vote in favor of the Tax & Regulate proposition that is on the November 2nd ballot in California. Some growers fear that legalization will bring in major corporations
that will dominate the industry, reducing Humboldt into an Appalachian-type county once again They say, why should we vote for this? It might be putting us out of business.