A whopping 72% of California voters support reducing the penalty for possession of a small amount of illegal drugs for personal use from a felony to a misdemeanor A brand new poll this week finds that a whopping 72% of California voters support reducing the penalty for possession of a […]
Cannabis & Hemp , Drug Policy , Hot Off The 'Net
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Pot Laws Ruled Unconstitutional
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the federal medical marijuana program is unconstitutional, giving the government three months to fix the problem before pot is effectively legalized. In an April 11 ruling, Justice Donald Taliano found that doctors across the country have “massively boycotted” the medical marijuana program […]
Letter Writer of the Month
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Letter Writer of the Month – March – Stan White
DrugSense recognizes Stan White of Dillon, Colorado for his eight letters published during March, bringing his career total that we know of to 856. You may read Stan’s published letters by clicking this link: http://www.mapinc.org/writers/Stan+White
Letter of the Week
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Letter Of The Week
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND BE DONE WITH IT So the new legislation “that would allow those caught with small amounts of marijuana to avoid punishment altogether if they can convince a judge that they used the drug out of medical necessity” is supposed to be a “middle ground on marijuana?” Get […]
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What is domestic surveillance?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 4-4-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 4-4-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3331 Question of the Week What is domestic surveillance? In a 2003 report, the American Civil Liberties Union warned, “In recent years – in […]
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What is naloxone?
Drug Policy Question of the Week – 3-26-11 As answered by Mary Jane Borden, Editor of Drug War Facts for the Drug Truth Network on 3-26-11. http://www.drugtruth.net/cms/node/3320 Question of the Week: What is naloxone? A Drug Profile for Naloxone HCl from the Arizona Department of Health Services describes the drug […]
Focus Alerts
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ALERT: #467 Michigan Marihuana Act Under Attack
MICHIGAN MARIHUANA ACT UNDER ATTACK ********************************************************************** DrugSense FOCUS Alert #467 – Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 More than 1.3 million adults read the Sunday Detroit Free Press so what it prints is influential. Today two items focused on medicinal marijuana. The first, an in depth editorial, is at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n218/a09.html The second, […]
Letter of the Week
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Letter Of The Week
DESPITE MARIJUANA, BRECKENRIDGE IS PLENTY SAFE Re. “Potheads ruining Breckenridge” by Lorie Willis, letters, March 21 I would like to thank Lorie Willis of San Antonio, Texas for her pleasant description of Breckenridge. It is beautiful, and we do love it here. I am concerned about a few points in […]