Europa: Usuarios checos de marihuana tendrán penas menos duras
Los legisladores en la República Checa están preparando una enmienda al código penal que debe disminuir las penas para la tenencia y el cultivo de marihuana.
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Reducción de daños: Pensilvania toma providencias para acabar con el requisito de receta para comprar jeringas
La Junta de Farmacia de Pensilvania ha revelado una regla propuesta que permite la compra de hasta 30 jeringas sin receta. La acción es una medida de reducción de daños que pretende reducir el reparto de pertrechos de inyección entre usuarios de drogas y, de ese modo, disminuir las enfermedades contagiosas.
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Marihuana medicinal: La demanda de la WAMM da con obstáculo
Una demanda interpuesta por una cooperativa de marihuana medicinal de Santa Cruz y la ciudad y comarca de Santa Cruz para intentar impedir los allanamientos federales contra los proveedores en California ha tropezado, pero no ha caÃdo, después de una decisión contraria de un juez federal.
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Confiscación de bienes: ACLU procesa la DEA por dinero confiscado de camionero
La ACLU está cuestionando la aprehensión de casi $24,000 dólares de un camionero de Nuevo México hecha por la DEA como parte de su programa de confiscación de bienes.
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Policial: Las historias de policÃas corruptos de esta semana
Ocupado, muy ocupado. Toma una semana de descanso y anda a ver qué sucede: PolicÃas revendiendo pastillas, guardias robando pastillas, policÃas extorsionando a residentes de viviendas públicas, guardias de prisión contrabandeando drogas, un agente de la DEA pasando la voz a mafiosos sospechosos y más.
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Semanal: Blogueando en el Bar Clandestino
Los crÃticos de la marihuana que aceptan dinero de las empresas cerveceras, los exámenes toxicológicos y el consumo de drogas duras, Obama y la guerra a las drogas en Nueva Orleáns, federales allanan a parapléjico, âNo fume marihuana en su autoâ, John McCain y otra guerra perdida, más...
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Solicitud: Enormes aumentos en el tráfico de nuestra página web han incrementado nuestros costes...
Enormes aumentos en el tráfico de nuestra página web, particularmente durante los últimos tres meses, nos han forzado a actualizar nuestro servidor â no una, sino dos veces â y han incrementado nuestros costes. Necesitamos su ayuda para sufragarlo.
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Reseña y crÃtica: Estudio sobre la metanfetamina realizado con ratones deja mucho que desear
La ciencia de la metanfetamina es un terreno en disputa. AquÃ, el contribuidor ocasional John Calvin Jones disecciona un artÃculo reciente de investigación sobre la metanfetamina y cree que deja mucho que desear.
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Reportaje: Iniciativa de âmenor prioridad legalâ de la marihuana irá a votación mientras los activistas plagan al alcalde y el concejo de Denver
Una iniciativa de menor prioridad legal para el consumo adulto de marihuana está encaminada hacia las urnas en Denver y los funcionarios municipales que se oponen a ella están recibiendo una paliza de sus defensores.
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Reportaje: Mientras la producción afgana de adormideras crece vertiginosamente, aumenta la presión por la erradicación aérea y más envolvimiento de los militares occidentales
La semana pasada, la ONU anunció que la producción afgana de adormideras ha aumentado otra vez. Ahora, aumenta la presión para combatirla con la fumigación aérea y por más envolvimiento de los militares occidentales, pero los expertos dicen que eso no va a dar en nada.
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Fundraiser for Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy Featuring Tom Robbins
Please join the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy for a reception and reading with Tom Robbins. RSVP is required -- Purchase Tickets at www.SensibleMarijuanaPolicy.org or call (617) 901-7765.
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Editorial: Por qué estamos luchando para acabar con la guerra contra las drogas
En el movimiento pro reforma de las polÃticas de drogas, nosotros tenemos tantas buenas razones en insistir que es difÃcil saber por dónde empezar cuando conversamos con la gente sobre ellas. Cuando tengamos éxito en acabar con la prohibición, el mundo será un lugar mejor de maneras que son urgentemente necesarias.
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More Fun With Numbers at ONDCP
Press releases from the Office of National Drug Control Policy are so distorted and misleading, they are better suited to make paper airplanes than inform the public.
Yet another example of their ritualistic deception campaign occurred this week with the announcement that youth drug use has reached exciting lows:
New Survey Shows Youth Drug Use at Five Year Low, 25 Percent Drop in Pot Use Among Teen Boys
Overall illicit drug use among teens ages 12-17 is at a five year low, according to the largest and most comprehensive study of drug use in the United States, released today. [PushingBack.com]
You'd be forgiven for thinking this means youth drug use has been going down recently. But alas, it has not.
Illegal drug use among U.S. teens didn't drop for the first time since 2002, according to a government report released Thursday.
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Overall drug use rates had fallen steadily before last year. But last year's slowdown threatens to undermine President Bush's stated goals to cut drug abuse by 25% by 2007. [WebMD]
Kudos to WebMD for doing some actual research instead of mindlessly repeating ONDCP's predictable propaganda. If there's a story here, it is that a downward trend in youth drug use may be leveling off and that ONDCP's goals might not be achieved.
Now, to be fair, ONDCP isn't really lying here. They're merely feigning excitement about a downward trend that actually ended a year ago. Ultimately, youth drug use rises and falls for reasons so far beyond the government's control that they should be neither credited nor blamed regardless of what happens.
Jacob Sullum has more.
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Sacramento: Please Attend Medical Marijuana Activist Bryan Epis Federal Resentencing Hearing Friday
Bryan Epis, a former medical marijuana provider who was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, and served two years before being released in the wake of the Raich medical marijuana decision, is returning to court for resentencing pending the filing of his appeal.
Bryan asks that reformers in the area attend the hearing as a show of support. It is taking place at 10:00am this Friday morning (9/14) in Sacramento, California -- courtroom of Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr., 501 I Street, 15th floor, courtroom two.
Click here to read our 2005 interview with Bryan, and click here to read about possible misconduct committed by the prosecution in his case.
We will report in our blog Friday afternoon (or as soon as information becomes available) on what happens.
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DEA Agent Admits The Drug War Funds Terrorism
Well, not exactly. But it sure is astounding to hear DEA lament the black market's role in funding terror:
Drug profits are being funneled into numerous terrorist organizations and the people who failed to prevent this sort of thing are instead citing it as evidence that their work is more important than ever.
No. It is 2007. You people have had enough time to try your idea. Clearly, you were wrong about everything. Rather than experiment with news ways of describing the same wrong ideas, it is time for these brave gentlemen to step aside and open up the floor to suggestions. Mine is to de-fund terrorists and countless other jerks by ending the drug war that makes them so damned rich.
Nearly half of the 42 groups considered by the United States to be terror organisations fund their activities through drug trafficking, a top US official said in Israel Sunday.If there's anything surprising about this, it is the fact that Braun wants to continue the exact policies that make it possible for violent groups to make fast money.
The Drug Enforcement Administration's Michael Braun told a conference on "The Global Impact of Terrorism", organised by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, that the DEA "linked 18 of the 42 officially designated Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) to drug trafficking activities of some sorts." [Yahoo News]
Drug profits are being funneled into numerous terrorist organizations and the people who failed to prevent this sort of thing are instead citing it as evidence that their work is more important than ever.
No. It is 2007. You people have had enough time to try your idea. Clearly, you were wrong about everything. Rather than experiment with news ways of describing the same wrong ideas, it is time for these brave gentlemen to step aside and open up the floor to suggestions. Mine is to de-fund terrorists and countless other jerks by ending the drug war that makes them so damned rich.
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Drugs and Crime - Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogue
On behalf of the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors, and in cooperation with the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce, Delta Chamber of Commerce, Langley Chamber of Commerce, Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Surrey Board of Trade, and White Rock / South Surrey Chamber of Commerce, I cordially invite you to the next of the Future of The Region Sustainability Dialogues.
Building on the success of its 2006 Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogue Series, Metro Vancouver is partnering with Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade across the region to launch an expanded program of dialogues for 2007. more on the dialogues... While Metro Vancouver has earned its reputation as one of the most livable places in the world, now, as we shift our focus to the longer term sustainability of our region, some of the challenges we face and opportunities available to us are crying out for attention.
New and innovative approaches to regional issues and attention to the growing impacts and opportunities of globalization are fundamental if we are to sustain those things that make our region special. Therefore, your opinions and participation at these sessions are vitally welcome and important.
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18th Annual Boston Freedom Rally
Please join the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition/NORML at the 18th Annual Freedom Rally -- Captain Parker's "Stand your ground" is this year's theme. Featured entertainment and speakers are listed here http://masscann.org/rally08details01.shtml.