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Semanal: Blogueando en el Bar Clandestino

“Si la policía no encuentra nada durante una redada antidroga, ¿debería tener que arreglar los perjuicios?”, “‘Claro está que no hay LSD, ¿cuánto tiempo se demora para saber si hay marihuana en una galleta con pedacitos de chocolate?’”, “¿Las empresas farmacéuticas apoyan la prohibición de la marihuana?”, “Policía se niega a asumir responsabilidad por redada antidroga estropeada”, “Policía descubre marihuana más cara del mundo”, “Integrantes de la Camarilla Negra del Congreso de EE.UU. intentan prohibir cigarrillos de mentol”, “Casi cualquier delito de drogas puede impedir que usted se convierta en ciudadano u obtenga una tarjeta de residencia”.
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Marihuana: Presidente de gran jurado georgiano es a favor de legalización

Normalmente se notan a los grandes jurados porque observan los deseos de la fiscalía, pero al fin de sus vigencias, deben lanzar informes sobre lo que experimentaron y recomendaciones para mejoras. El presidente de un gran jurado georgiano ha empleado tal oportunidad para pedir la legalización de la marihuana.
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Reportaje: Pese a políticas de drogas severas, EE.UU. va a la cabeza en consumo de cannabis y cocaína, descubre sondeo

Un sondeo internacional que cubre a 54.000 personas en 17 países representando todas las regiones del planeta ha descubierto que EE.UU. es el líder mundial en los índices de consumo de cannabis y cocaína a pesar de décadas de políticas severas dirigidas a los usuarios. Son fuertes indicios de que las políticas de drogas severas no resultan necesariamente en índices menores de consumo, dijeron los investigadores.
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Drug Testing Advocate Gets Busted For Drugs

A dimebag of heroin - $10
A urine test - $30
A drug testing advocate busted for heroin distribution – priceless hilarious

NORWALK, Ohio — A northern Ohio woman who encouraged Norwalk school board members to start drug testing students has been indicted on charges of heroin trafficking.

Police in Norwalk say Stephanie Broz admitted to them that her advocacy of drug testing was to take attention away from her. Norwalk Detective Todd Temple says she told police it was a scam.

Broz also faces a charge of possession of heroin.

Police arrested her in early June during a traffic stop. Officers say they found her with a large amount of heroin. [Columbus Dispatch]

Of course, it's tempting to now suggest that this is just the tip of the iceberg, that proponents of drug testing around the country are all a bunch of closeted crooks and perverts diverting attention from their own misdeeds by calling on us to collect bodily fluids from children. I bet at least one person won't even read this whole post before ironically suggesting in the comment section that we start drug testing the drug testers.

Yet, it makes no more sense to arbitrarily scrutinize them than anyone else. Few crimes they commit could do more harm than the one taking place before our eyes: stealing money from our children's education to be spent on worthless programs that don't effectively prove or disprove drug use and encourage use of more-dangerous less-detectible drugs.

Drug testing is generally only effective against marijuana anyway, so dealers of cocaine, heroin, and meth have every reason to support it.
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Angus Reid Poll: Canadians Want Some Offenders in Alternative Reform Programs, Four-in-five respondents think personal marijuana use should not be punished with a prison term

[Courtesy of Angus Reid Strategies] [VANCOUVER – Jul. 16, 2008] – Canadians are open to the idea of having some non-violent offenders punished with alternative penalties rather than prison, but reject the scheme being applied to cases of credit card fraud, drunk driving and arson, a new Angus Reid Strategies poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, seven-in-ten respondents (70%) would like to see the justice system using alternative penalties—such as fines, probation, or community service—rather than jail to punish non-violent offences. Four-in-five respondents (80%) think that personal marijuana use should not be punished with a jail sentence, but rather with an alternative penalty. However, most respondents disagree with granting this option to persons convicted for other non-violent offences: 62 per cent of respondents oppose using alternative penalties for credit card fraud; 72 per cent oppose this rationale for drunk driving convictions; and 84 per cent oppose it for arson. Respondents living in Ontario (74%) are more likely to support the idea of sentencing non-violent offenders through alternative reform programs. Ontarians are also the most inclined to support alternative penalties for personal marijuana use (85% compared to 73% in Alberta, the lowest regional level). Albertans are adamantly opposed to granting alternative penalties to credit card fraud offences (72%), drunk driving (85%) and arson (92%). Conversely, two-in-five respondents in Quebec would support punishing credit-card fraud and drunk driving with sentences other than jail. Overall support for alternative penalties for non-violent offences is higher among respondents with at least one university degree (78%), those in the middle-income bracket (73%), and those over the age of 55 (74%). This is the third in a series of four Angus Reid Strategies surveys that look at the way Canadians feel about their justice system. CONTACT Mario Canseco, Director of Global Studies, 604-647-3570, [email protected]. For more information, see: http://angusreidstrategies.com/uploads/pages/pdfs/2008.07.16_JusticeIII.pdf.