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Baking and Entering

Delightfully smug sex columnist Dan Savage got stoned and walked into Seattleâs City Hall with a fake gun and bag full of pot cookies. For all the right reasons.

It all started when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed a wildly impractical ordinance which would hold nightclub owners responsible for any drug possession on their premises:

Announcement: New Format for the Reformer's Calendar

Visit our new web site each day to see a running countdown to the events coming up the soonest, and more.

Announcement: ASA Seeking Patients Who Did Not Use Medical Marijuana Because of Government's Claims

Patients who have been hurt by the government's prohibition of medical marijuana may be able to help with an important research project.

Job Listing: Administrative Assistant, NORML

Opportunity for a job working in the movement!

Web Scan: Mark Fiore, Tony Papa, Dean Kuipers

US of Incarceration Animation, Tony Papa Knocks DA Report, Dean Kuipers on Tommy Chong

Weekly: This Week in History

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

Feature: Living on Katrina Time -- Lost in Louisiana's Gumbo Gulag

A national scandal is brewing in the Big Easy over thousands of people imprisoned without access to lawyers or the courts.

Feature: Brazilian President Signs New Drug Law -- No Jail for Users

Brazilian President "Lula" da Silva signed into law a bill that will keep most drug users out of jail last week. Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Feature: Medical Marijuana Victory in South Dakota Court Battle Over Ballot Language

A South Dakota judge has thrown out the attorney general's medical marijuana initiative ballot summary as biased and unfair and replaced it with language of his own crafting.

State of Siege: Drug-Related Violence and Corruption in Mexico

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