The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) is uploading video from the 2011 Drug Policy Alliance Conference in Los Angeles. Here is a sample. Check out the HCLU Youtube channel link below for more.
Cannabis & Hemp , Hot Off The 'Net
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Hemp Activists and “Truthers” Unite
Posted by Camron Wiltshire on November 5, 2011 HempVia the Bob Tuskin Radio Show: After 11 years, the Florida Hemp Fest is back with a new twist. Dennis “Murli” Watkins, who served four months of jail time for orchestrating a “doobie toss” at the event in 1994, is bringing back […]
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The Drug Czar Just Says No to Marijuana Legalization
By Jacob Sullum As Mike Riggs noted this morning, the Obama administration last Friday night finally got around to addressing the “We the People” online petitions urging repeal of marijuana prohibition. First it had to deal with the clamor for excising “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance (a cause […]
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Coalition Calls for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation to Reduce Gang Violence
Coalition of BC Law Enforcement, Health and Academic Experts Call for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation to Reduce Gang Violence New Polls Shows 87% of British Columbians Link Gang Violence to Organized Crime’s Control of Marijuana Trade October 27, 2011 [Vancouver, Canada] – In the wake of high-profile gang violence related […]
Drug Policy
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Allegations Against UBC Researchers’ Study On Insite “Without Merit”
An independent reviewer has dismissed concerns over a study that shows a 35-per-cent decrease in overdose deaths after the opening of Insite, North America’s only supervised injection facility. Published in the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet on April 18, 2011, the study, titled Reduction in overdose mortality after the […]
Cannabis & Hemp , Drug Policy , Question of the Week
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Marijuana Arrests
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-10-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-10-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3581 Question of the Week: How many people were arrested for marijuana last year? Every September, the FBI releases its annual “Crime in the […]
Drug Policy , Law Enforcement & Prisons , Question of the Week
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Federal Agencies
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-6-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-6-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3576 Question of the Week: What federal agencies enforce drug laws? A new table based on a 2009 report from the RAND Corporation can […]
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Opiate Use
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 10-1-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 10-1-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3570 Question of the Week: Is opiate use increasing? Each year around this time, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration releases its […]
Letter of the Week
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And of Marijuana (IV)
Re: Pot Dangers ( III ), letter, Oct. 4; Marijuana Has No Place In Society, letter, Sept. 30; A Misguided Sense Of Justice, letter, Sept. 28. Some of the U.S. hysteria about marijuana seems to be rubbing off on Canadians. I don’t doubt Dr. Henry T. Chuang’s sincerity in opposing […]