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Ethan Nadelmann & Major Neill Franklin on Drug Policy Reform

Colombian Senators Approve Marijuana Legalization Bill, Setting Stage For Final Vote - Marijuana Moment

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A bill to legalize marijuana in Colombia was approved in its second-to-last vote in the Senate on Tuesday, bringing the country one step closer to ending prohibition. However, advocates are increasing...

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> A man was high on LSD and having sex with a sex worker on one side of the San Francisco apartment. Only a few feet away, a squat man with a face like “an extremely menacing bowling ball” observed the couple with a scientific curiosity as he sat on a toilet seat and drank a martini.> It was no scene out of a movie: For eight years, between 1955 and 1963, federal agents ran a hidden brothel in one of San Francisco’s poshest neighborhoods and tested LSD on unsuspecting Bay Area residents. The apartment building is still there, although it has been converted from a CIA brothel into a four-story mansion worth over $10 million. ... See MoreSee Less

An SF brothel had a secret: CIA agents watching from behind a mirror

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There's a house on Telegraph Hill where the CIA secretly gave men LSD and then watched,...

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What MDMA Taught Me About Human Connection

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A month or so into COVID lockdown, I had an idea. Why not take a little staycation? Why not take some MDMA?

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> On the heels of an election when Republicans pounded Democrats for being soft on crime, the DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature passed a raft of legislation this year that could result in scores of people being released from prison sooner; shorter terms of probation or community supervision; erasure of some aiding and abetting felony convictions and reduction in sentences of others; and easier expungement of certain non-violent crimes.> They also legalized marijuana, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia even if it has drug residue. They made it easier to get clemency. They put historic investment into community violence prevention grants, while also giving $300 million to cities and counties to spend on public safety as they see fit. ... See MoreSee Less

Minnesota Democrats take a new approach to crime and prisons - Minnesota Reformer

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On the heels of an election when Republicans pounded Democrats for being soft on crime, the DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature passed a raft of legislation this year that could result in scores of p...

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Proposed Clean Slate law would inhibit the free flow of information in NY | Our view

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As drafted, the measure would keep important information from the public and inhibit investigative news reporting by sealing court records.

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