Having just emerged from one of the most epic experiences of my life, I'd like to share a few thoughts before returning to my usual news-skewering routine. Don't worry, it's about drug policy, although I'm proud to say I did manage to go an... 3 comments 
Our friends at the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, in honor of Overdose Awareness Day (August 31), have produced a new video, "Take Home Naloxone -- The Right to Survive Overdoses." There are many legal, political and attitudinal barriers that... 1 comment 
CNN reports that a dispensary in Sacramento has run the nation's first medical marijuana television commercial. 3 comments 
Norm Stamper, former police chief of Seattle, wants all of us to support California's Prop 19 initiative to legalize marijuana this November. He writes about it in The Huffington Post this week. 2 comments 
Facebook may be the nation's hottest social networking site, but the company is no friend to the nation's hottest political issue. A marijuana legalization ad from the Just Say Now campaign has been banned for its use of a pot leaf image,... 5 comments 
Ever since NAACP endorsed marijuana legalization in California, there's been a raging debate over whether the drug war targets black communities. Looks like the DEA just settled it. 26 comments 
I guess it’s better than sending them to jail, but forcing offenders to draft political opinions smacks of drug war brainwashing. 8 comments 
Kelly Ayotte, former attorney general of New Hampshire and the state's leading Republican contender for Senate, wouldn't tell a disabled Navy veteran Manchester GOP Candidate Fair and Straw Poll that he was a criminal for needing medical marijuana. But it's hard to distinguish her position from that idea. 9 comments 
If you want to legalize marijuana as badly as I do, it's time to start paying attention to Gary Johnson. This MSNBC interview is just a preview of the awesomeness that's going to happen when he runs for president in 2012. 9 comments 
See updates below.[image:1 align:left caption:true]Mike Meno at MPP points out that Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul no longer supports medical marijuana. That's right, folks. Rand Paul, son of the famously libertarian-leaning and... 17 comments 
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske is back in damage control mode again following Mexican President Felipe Calderon's call for a debate on legalizing drugs. 13 comments 
Possessing up to four grams of crack or 14 grams of powder cocaine is just a misdemeanor in Maine, and the Portland police chief wants to change that. 2 comments 
If anyone needs a reason to consider voting "yes" on California's Proposition 19, we've got 550,000 of them right here. 0 comments 
Why do I feel like I just keep writing the same stories of law enforcement venality over and over again? More crooked jail guards, more sticky-fingered cops, more cops on the take, and another pervert power-tripper cop. 0 comments 
The numbe of Israeli medical marijuana patients is set to expand dramatically after the Health Ministry allowed the number of doctors allowed to prescribe it from one to six. 2 comments 
A tea party insurgent running for the Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nomination said last week he support hemp production. That makes two hempsters in the 2011 race. 4 comments 
He led the effort to imprison Prince of Pot Marc Emery, but now former federal prosecutor John McVay has emerged from the dark side. 40 comments 
To gently chide Mexico for continuing human rights violations by its military, the US will withold $26 million that Mexico won't see until next year anyway. To make up for that, the US is releasing $36 million it withheld last year. 2 comments 
Prop 19's lead has dropped three points in the latest SurveyUSA poll, but it's still leading with the election less than 60 days away. 27 comments 
California arrested more than 60,000 pot smokers last year, but that's just the tip of the iceberg on the state's drug arrests. 3 comments Criminal JusticeAsset Forfeiture, Collateral Sanctions (College Aid, Drug Taxes, Housing, Welfare), Court Rulings, Drug Courts, Due Process, Felony Disenfranchisement, Incarceration, Policing (Arrests, Eradication, Informants, Interdiction, Lowest Priority Policies, Police Corruption, Police Raids, Profiling, Search and Seizure, SWAT/Paramilitarization, Task Forces, Undercover Work), Probation or Parole, Prosecution, Reentry/Rehabilitation, Sentencing (Alternatives to Incarceration, Clemency, Crack/Powder Cocaine Disparity, Death Penalty, Decriminalization, Drug Free Zones, Mandatory Minimums, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Sentencing Guidelines)CultureArt, Celebrities, Counter-Culture, Music, Poetry/Literature, TelevisionDrug UseParaphernalia, ViolenceIntersecting IssuesCollateral Sanctions (College Aid, Drug Taxes, Housing, Welfare), Violence, Border, Budgets/Taxes/Economics, Business, Civil Rights, Driving, Economics, Education (College Aid), Environment, Families, Free Speech, Human Rights, Immigration, Militarization, Pregnancy, Privacy (Search and Seizure, Drug Testing), Race, Religion, Sports, Women's IssuesMarijuana PolicyHemp, Marijuana -- Personal Use, Medical MarijuanaMedicineMedical Marijuana, Under-treatment of PainPublic HealthAddiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Education, Drug Prevention, Drug-Related AIDS/HIV or Hepatitis C, Harm Reduction (Methadone & Other Opiate Maintenance, Needle Exchange, Overdose Prevention, Safe Injection Sites)Source and Transit CountriesAndean Drug War, Coca, Hashish, Mexican Drug War, Opium ProductionSpecific DrugsAlcohol, Ayahuasca, Cocaine (Crack Cocaine), Ecstasy, Fentanyl, Heroin, Ibogaine, ketamine, Khat, Marijuana (Marijuana -- Personal Use, Medical Marijuana, Hashish), Methamphetamine, Nicotine, Psychedelics (LSD, Mescaline, Peyote, Salvia Divinorum), Synthetic cannabinoidsYouthGrade School, Post-Secondary School, Raves, Secondary School
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