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The Los Angeles Times said Saturday that police have accused Over the Wall Foundation director Kendall Craig Farris of selling what he claimed was methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets to an undercover officer.
“Unfortunately their spirits must have been out to lunch or on vacation,” said Schissler. “The belief that such practices will keep you safe is typically wrong.”
Mysterious skull found in drug raid is human – The Connecticut Post Online
The Dutch justice ministry has announced it will close eight prisons and cut 1,200 jobs in the prison system. A decline in crime has left many cells empty.
nrc.nl – International – Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
Knoxville’s local beer ordinance establishes a 300-foot buffer zone around churches
The Hill to sell alcohol next week despite mosque concern : Business : Knoxville News Sentinel
The data show that, judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success. Within this success lie self-evident lessons that should guide drug policy debates around the world.
On July 1, 2001, a nationwide law in Portugal took effect that decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. The data show that, judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success.
The Obama administration’s new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting “a war on drugs,” a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use. [maybe prohibition doesn't work after all]
in recent years Adderall and Ritalin, another stimulant, have been adopted as cognitive enhancers: drugs that high-functioning, overcommitted people take to become higher-functioning and more overcommitted.
A Reporter at Large: Brain Gain: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
the brain manufactures proteins that act like marijuana at specific receptors in the brain itself. This discovery may lead to new marijuana-like drugs for managing pain, stimulating appetite, and preventing marijuana abuse.
Whatever else is true, the empirical evidence leaves no doubt that Portuguese decriminalization has been a resounding success
More on the success of drug decriminalization in Portugal – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
The War on Drugs is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, and the day they decide to end that war, will be a sad one for me and all of my closest friends. And if you don’t believe me, ask those guys whose heads showed up in the ice chests.
David Henry Sterry: Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs Illegal
You can take drugs legally only if you pretend to believe in the right imaginary creatures
Oregon church can brew hallucinogenic tea for services, judge rules | Renegade Futurist
The Economist first argued for legalisation 20 years ago. Reviewing the evidence again, prohibition seems even more harmful, especially for the poor and weak of the world.
Rat Park showed that a rat’s environment, not the availability of drugs, leads to dependence.
Sad, lengthy list of people killed in the war on drugs. Not drug dealers or even drug users. People sitting on their front porch when SWAT teams showed up to the wrong house, that sort of thing.
Every American who smokes dope, manufactures, buys or sells meth or uses any illegal drugs is aiding and abetting the enemies of America. Case closed. This spiritual inbreeding and cannibalism must be identified, admitted to and stopped immediately.
Treatment with a pharmacological version of the drug ecstasy makes PSTD patients more receptive to psychotherapy, and contributes to lasting improvement.
Without comment, the justices agreed to hear Daniel Hardesty’s argument that the First Amendment protections of free exercise of religion entitle him to use marijuana as a “sacrament” of his church. Both a trial judge and the state Court of Appeals rejected those arguments.
Religious- pot case is headed to Ariz. justices | www.azstarnet.com ®
following six months exposure to the MMP’s graphic ads, there was a threefold increase in the percentage of teenagers who reported that using meth is not a risky behaviour; teenagers were four times more likely to strongly approve of regular meth use… [etc.]
