Cannabis & Hemp , Hot Off The 'Net

Down to the Wire

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The Failure of Cannabis Prohibition in BC, November 10, 2011 Stop the Violence BC, a group of experts from British Columbia calling for an end to marijuana prohibition, hosted “Down to the Wire – the Failure of Cannabis Prohibition”, the first in a series of events designed to bring attention […]

Drug Policy , Hot Off The 'Net

Open Letter: The Global War on Drugs has Failed

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In is time for a new approach WE THE UNDERSIGNED call on members of the public and of Parliament to recognise that:- Fifty years after the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was launched, the global war on drugs has failed, and has had many unintended and devastating consequences […]

Cannabis & Hemp , Drug Policy

The Marijuana Vote

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For more about the “marijuana vote,” please check out this press release from Common Sense for Drug Policy issued on November 15, 2011: http://www.csdp.org/pr201111.pdf Also,  this formatted one-page PDF flyer, “The Marijuana, Minority and Marginal Vote,” contains many of the facts within the CSDP press release. http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/files/Marijuana-Minority-&-Marginal-Vote.pdf  

Cannabis & Hemp , Drug Policy , Question of the Week

Marijuana Voters

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Drug Policy Question of the Week – 11-4-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 11-4-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3616 Question of the Week: What is the marijuana vote? An October Editorial from the Christian Science Monitor lauded the federal crackdown on California […]

Drug Policy , Question of the Week

Prohibition

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Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-29-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-29-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3606 Question of the Week: How similar is Ken Burns’ ‘Prohibition’ to the Drug War? Many aficionados have probably seen “PROHIBITION,” the “three-part, five-and-a-half-hour […]