I’m always wary about commenting on other people’s personal tragedies, but the confused logic of a recent editorial in the Denver Post cries out for critical thought. Jim Spencer (no relation) talks of his brother’s untimely demise at the hands of alcoholism and heroin use, and starts his piece with this quote:
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Paul Armentano, senior policy advisor for NORML, writes an article in The Examiner about the recent Department of Justice Report “Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004”.
The new report is noteworthy because it undermines the common claim from law enforcement officers and bureaucrats, specifically White House drug czar John
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal editorializes on the impropriety of the Drug Czar’s use of taxpayer money to campaign against Nevada’s upcoming marijuana decriminalization initiative.
The hypocrisy of politicians who claim to be against big government and federal intervention on matters of local interest often arises when they support the so called War on Drugs. The Dallas…
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Jordan Smith’s always excellent Weed Watch column in this week’s Austin Chronicle focuses on three topics:
Anyone reading this think they…
Radley Balko over at The Agitator posts three examples about the dangers of paramilitary police raids.
Even in the last example, where the police (supposedly) had the right “target”, is this sort of military force necessary when we’re talking about $60 worth of marijuana?
Stan White writes a Letter to the Editor of the Central Kentucky Newsletter decrying a pastor’s previous letter bashing medical marijuana. I’m interested myself in looking into his claim that the kaneh-bosm mentioned in the Old Testament is actually cannabis, but for now, I’ll leave you with this quote:
Biblically, caging humans for using cannabis (kaneh
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The “Gateway Theory” of marijuana prohibition goes like this: marijuana use leads to “hard drug” use, such as cocaine and heroin. Since cocaine and heroin use are “bad”, we must criminalize marijuana to keep our children (and perhaps ourselves) from becoming hard core drug addicts.
The proof of the Gateway Theory is supposed to…
When you catch someone in a deliberate lie, don’t you distrust the rest of their message?
Opponents of the marijuana decriminalization movement are fond of using straw man arguments. These deliberate mischaracterizations tend to fall into two broad categories: (1) "They just want to smoke dope", and (2) "They want your children to become addicts/dope fiends".…
The Office of National Drug Control Policy’s blog ‘Pushing Back’ posted an entry where they ask "Marijuana near schools: Harmless?"
Read the Sacramento TV News station’s story that the Drug Czar points to, and ask yourself this: Was it the marijuana that ’caused’ the gun problem? Or is the fact that marijuana is…