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President-elect Obama’s Change.gov website has opened a new round of questions, providing us yet another opportunity to push drug policy reform into the political mainstream. We won the last round of voting, making a marijuana legalization question the top vote-getter on the entire site.

Simply click here and create an account. Scroll through to find drug policy-related questions and vote them up. You can also submit your own. This time, the questions are broken into categories, so I assume the top question in each will get a response. Currently, there’s a drug war question in 2nd place in the "national security" section, so please start by voting for that (it’s our best chance). The "additional issues" section has several good ones as well and I'm sure there are questions in other categories that I've missed.

Keep in mind that you can vote against questions as well, so feel free to use the down-vote in a way that reflects your personal political priorities. Finally, please send your friends the link and encourage them to participate as well. Seeing consistent support for drug policy reform on his own site might give Obama exactly the cover he needs to maybe actually do something.

Without going into great deal of detail about anything. resently pulled over doing nothing wrong other than driving around on a friday afternoon.

Your ink-stained wretch of a Chronicle editor spent this past week relocating from the frigid steppes of the Dakotas to the friendlier clime of Northern California's Sonoma County, the land of milk and honey. Once I made it over Donner Pass on I-80 with the help of tire chains, it was all downhill from there... Next week, in honor of the coming of the new year, I will put on my best Janus face(s), and the Chronicle will look back at the big news of '08, as well as looking forward at what should be/could be the big news of '09, so stay tuned for that pair of features a week from today. I've also got a pile of drug policy-related books that are begging to be read and reviewed. I'll be working on that in the next few days as well, so you can expect to see some reviews dribbling out in the coming weeks. Now, it's the day after Christmas, and I have to venture out to the shopping malls in search of a router for my new Internet set up. See you next year, and next week.