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It seems like every day there's a study relating to narcotic prohibition. Unfortunately the abundance of new information has us neglecting the past.Sometimes I think, when and how did prohibition start?What was the catalyst?
Most of us can't even
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Marketing LEAP has always been easy for anyone who wears the COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS t-shirt. Over the past 8 years of wearing such a shirt, I have had about 15,000 ask me why & another 200,000 or so read it and wonder why. At the end
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My father's wife died this week. The simple fact that I would refer to her as, "my father's wife," is a pretty good indication that we were not close. Many years ago, before they were married, there was
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Earlier this month New Mexico governor Bill Richardson signed into law the New Mexico Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, thus making his state the 12th to recognize the natural right of citizens to use a commonly occurring plant to relieve the symptoms
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Humor of the Week: After my presentation to the Canton, Ohio Rotary their President announced to the 100 members present I was to receive two gifts from the club. As I received a box and an envelope, a member shouted out, ‘Is it marijuana?!'
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NPR’s All Things Considered is running a weeklong series about the drug war called The Forgotten War on Drugs “Nearly four decades after the United States declared a war on drugs, juvenile drug abuse is on the decline, but illegal narcotics
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Tear in my eye: This week the New Mexico house passed and placed on the governor's desk the ‘Good Samaritan 911 Call' for alcohol and drug overdoses. This bill would allow someone to call w/o criminal penalties 911 in order to save
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It's been another rough few weeks for me but the War on Drugs never seems to wane. The drug war charges on in Mexico and in Columbia.
"It's not just about helping a friendly, democratically elected government fight drugs and an insurgency.
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The State of Michigan, my home, is in deep financial trouble. That's common knowledge. Drastic times call for drastic solutions. That should be obvious, too. So, should we slash spending even further or raise taxes higher yet? Hard choices, either
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Semantics, the words we use, are very important. It is because of this that I have decided to pen the following.
Back in the 70's the Nixon administration decided to rename, and in doing so reenergize, our failed drug policy. The name they came up
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In “Home Office backs heroin on the NHS in effort to cut crime,” published Sunday in the Independent newspaper for the United Kingdom, Political Editor, Marie Woolf wrote, Heroin is to be prescribed on the NHS [National Health Service]
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It's the law don't whine.
You are correct to a point. Laws are laws created supposedly for the good of all. But when laws are manipulated into being solely for one group's beliefs that override the rights and welfare of another they are unjust.
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I continue to roll down hill health wise. I’m much more wobbly than normal and also very tired. Throwing up constantly. Friends call to check in and we talk briefly. My computer time is very limited and answering the phone too. I’m thinking
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