Tag: drug policy

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October 16, 2012
10/16/2012
Decriminalize Drug Possession, UK Experts Say

Decriminalize Drug Possession, UK Experts Say

05:20pm In a report six years in the making, the United Kingdom Drug Policy Commission, a non-governmental advisory body chaired by Dame Edith Runciman, has called for...
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October 16, 2012
10/16/2012
Christie Vetoes NJ Good Samaritan Overdose Bill

Christie Vetoes NJ Good Samaritan Overdose Bill

03:29am New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) Friday conditionally vetoed the 911 Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act, which would have exempted from criminal prosecution people who participated...
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October 15, 2012
10/15/2012
Obama Officials Stay Silent on Marijuana Initiatives

Obama Officials Stay Silent on Marijuana Initiatives

Despite the urging of drug enforcement experts, officials in Washington have not said how the federal government would deal with possible state marijuana laws in Oregon, Washington...
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October 15, 2012
10/15/2012
Amnesty Raps Mexico on Human Rights Abuses in Drug War

Amnesty Raps Mexico on Human Rights Abuses in Drug War

02:16am Mexico must take decisive action to rein in the systematic and widespread use of torture, ill-treatment, and other human rights abuses, which have increased dramatically...
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October 9, 2012
10/09/2012
Medical Marijuana Advocates Hope Lawsuit Relaxes US Drugs Policy

Medical Marijuana Advocates Hope Lawsuit Relaxes US Drugs Policy

A US appeals court will hear evidence on medical marijuana benefits – a claim with which the federal government disagrees.
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October 8, 2012
10/08/2012
Gary Johnson: Most Americans Get Legalizing Marijuana, When Will DC?

Gary Johnson: Most Americans Get Legalizing Marijuana, When Will DC?

Libertarian POTUS candidate Gary Johnson writes on how the ‘war on drugs’, like 1920s Prohibition, has been a miserable failure and how America would be better-off with...
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October 5, 2012
10/05/2012
Tom Hayden to NORML: US Needs Peace Movement to End Drug War

Tom Hayden to NORML: US Needs Peace Movement to End Drug War

02:18am Harkening back to his days as a student antiwar activist in the 1960s, but also drawing heavily on the example of the contemporary Caravan for Peace (with...
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October 4, 2012
10/04/2012
Sir Richard Branson Labels US Drug Policy ‘Racist’

Sir Richard Branson Labels US Drug Policy ‘Racist’

Sir Richard Branson has labeled US drug policy as racist, stating that its a “war on black people” which results in the jailing of too many African Americans.
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September 27, 2012
09/27/2012
Latin Americans at UN Seek Drug Policy Debate

Latin Americans at UN Seek Drug Policy Debate

06:51pm Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly session saw not one, not two, but three Latin American heads of state call on it to promote debate on...
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
Marijuana: A Case for Legalization

Marijuana: A Case for Legalization

More than 100 million people in this country have tried marijuana at some point. More than 28 million will do so this year. It will not make...
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
Bolivia, Venezuela Reject U.S. Drug Criticism

Bolivia, Venezuela Reject U.S. Drug Criticism

03:44pm Last Thursday, the White House released its annual determination of major drug trafficking or producing countries, singling out Bolivia, Burma, and Venezuela as countries that have...
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
Pepperdine University Denies Student Internship at MPP

Pepperdine University Denies Student Internship at MPP

Last week, the deans of Seaver College internship program at Pepperdine University officially refused to approve the application of sophomore political science major Victoria Stanzione to intern...
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September 10, 2012
09/10/2012
VP Candidate Paul Ryan On Medical Marijuana: “I Support States’ Rights”

VP Candidate Paul Ryan On Medical Marijuana: “I Support States’ Rights”

In a clear departure from his more socially conservative top-of-the-ticket running mate Mitt Romney, vice presidential candidate Congressman Paul Ryan, in an interview this afternoon on KRDO in Colorado...
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September 10, 2012
09/10/2012
Federal Judge: Criminalization of Marijuana is “Absurd”

Federal Judge: Criminalization of Marijuana is “Absurd”

Judge Richard Posner serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, he also wants marijuana to be legalized. During a September...
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September 10, 2012
09/10/2012
The 2012 Democratic National Platform on Drugs

The 2012 Democratic National Platform on Drugs

04:58pm The Democrats are on their way home from the national convention in Charlotte, and now is a good time to examine their official stand on...
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September 3, 2012
09/03/2012
The GOP Platform on Crime and Drugs

The GOP Platform on Crime and Drugs

05:12pm With Republican delegates now heading home after their national convention in Tampa, this is as good a time as any to examine their official position...
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July 2, 2012
07/02/2012
Medical Marijuana Is a Classic States’ Rights Issue

Medical Marijuana Is a Classic States’ Rights Issue

Bob Morris writes a great article on how the Fed should stay out of medical marijuana and leave it to the states (just reschedule it out of Schedule...
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