Reddit and Wired Rebel Against Owner's Anti-drug Policy
Social news website Reddit has defied its owner Condé Nast about running advertisements for a marijuana legalization campaign in California.
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I've finally succumbed to the call of Burning Man and will be spending the next week in Black Rock City covered in dust and sweat. I'm excited and slightly terrified.
I'll be returning to civilization on Sept. 7th and will do my best to resume blogging forthwith.
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Michigan Court Keeps Detroit Marijuana Initiative Off Ballot
A Detroit pot legalization initiative had enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, but a city commission disqualified it, and now a local judge has agreed. An appeal may come, but it may be too late.
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Ponzi Scheme Strikes Drug Enforcement Agents
Michele Leonhart's nomination to head the Drug Enforcement Administration has been complicated by a ponzi scheme that has ensnared DEA agents and officials. "Given Leonhart's raids against medical marijuana dispensaries and her alleged role in covering up the House of Death scandal, it would be funny if what sinks her nomination is some retirement Ponzi scheme," said Bill Piper of the Drug Policy Alliance.
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Electric Car Made of Hemp to Be Made in Canada
Calgary's Motive Industries announced it would introduce an electric car whose bio-composite body is made from hemp. The prototype of the four-passenger, zero-emission vehicle, known as the Kestrel, is to be unveiled at an electric mobility trade show in Vancouver in September and would be the first of its kind in Canada.
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New Colombian President Joins Call for Drug Legalization Debate
Colombian President Santos agrees with Mexican President Calderon that it's time for a debate on drug legalization--and California's Prop 19 is weighing on his mind.
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Continued Drug Prohibition Allows Mexican Drug Gangs to Diversify Into Human Smuggling
Phenomenally rich due to drug prohibition, Mexican drug gangs, which used to focus exclusively on ferrying narcotics such as cocaine to the United States, have diversified into other lucrative criminal activities such as human smuggling and extortion.
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Ferndale Raid Underscores Silliness of Drug War (Opinion)
Darrell Dawsey reflects on the logic of the Oakland County Sheriff's Department raiding a medical marijuana dispensary mere days after the City Council of Ferndale, Mich., lifted a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses in the Detroit suburb. Their actions are in defiance of the will of the City Council and the majority of voters in the state. It seems especially odd given the U.S. Department of Justice said it won't prosecute marijuana dispensaries that abide by state laws.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Backs Mexico's Calderon on Drug Legalization
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared his support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon's call for a discussion on drug legalization. "We are entering an era of the narco-trafficking business where one must have these type of reflections," he said. Santos announced that he will seek to form a united stance with Mexico and Peru on the legalization issue if California votes to legalize marijuana at the ballot in November.
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Toronto City Council Votes to Endorse Decriminalization of Drug Use
Toronto has become the first city in the world â and the first government in North America â to formally endorse a declaration that advocates harm reduction in the war on drugs.
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U.S. Efforts Fail to Stem Flow of Mexican Drug Money
Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug traffickers are moving tens of billions of dollars in drug prohibition profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents.
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Mexican Drug Traffickers Expand Reach in Central America
Central America is struggling to contain rising drug prohibition violence as powerful Mexican drug traffickers, facing a government crackdown at home, expand southward and intensify operations in neighboring nations.
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Mexico Offers 'Drug Deal and People Trafficking Holidays'
While escalating violence in Mexico's war on drugs may be prompting some would-be tourists to think twice about visiting the country, others see it as a chance to try a different kind of travel experience. A new type of traveler is flocking to the country, keen to experience a dark underworld of drug traffickers, leftist rebels and illegal migration.
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U.S. Consulate Warning of Zeta Kidnappings in Mexico
After the possible kidnapping attempt of a college student last Friday, the U.S. Consulate is warning Americans who travel to Monterrey that they face a greater risk of being kidnapped.
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Fultility 101: Torching a Drug Lab in Peru, the No. 1 Coca Grower
Drug prohibitionists are still playing one of their favorite games -- "whack-a-mole" with cocaine in South America. Peru's anti-drug police are locked in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse in the Ene and Apurimac River Valleys against drug runners, many of whom are aligned with a remnant band of about 200 leftist Shining Path guerrillas. But, as usual and for ever more, the government appears to be losing the battle.
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Obama Takes a Crack at Drug Reform (Opinion)
Drug Policy Alliance ED, Ethan Nadelmann, opines on President Obama's drug policy reform moves since entering office.
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Canada's Conservatives Try Again with Mandatory Minimum Drug Bill [FEATURE]
Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper and his Conservative buddies are dead set on passing a draconian, backward-looking drug sentencing bill, but they are going to run into a lot of opposition.
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Veteran Drug Reformer Wins Florida House Primary
A face we're used to seeing at drug reform conferences will now be plastered on campaign posters as Floridian Jodi James wins her state House Democratic primary and focuses on knocking off the Republican incumbent.
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municipal building, San Fernando, Tamaulipas
Mexico Drug War Update
The discovery of the bodies of 72 people, probably Central American immigrants, on a farm not far from the US border, is the latest gruesome "top that" moment in Mexico's unending prohibition-related violence.