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Report Calls for Fresh Approach to Latin America
September 20th, 2009 at 10:01 pm » Comments Off
With the election of Barack Obama, the United States has a fresh chance to reinvigorate its relations with Latin America, according to a new report that recommends Washington overhaul its ...more »Methadone Could Help Cocaine Addicts, Study Suggests
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Methadone, a drug used for many years to treat heroin addiction, also appears to work well against cocaine addiction, a new Canadian study suggests. more »ONDCP: 130 million for Burrito Tasters and Remote Control Operators
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ONDCP is going to spend 130 million dollars on media in 2008 (total expected budget). What have they spent a majority of this money on? Ineffectual advertisements to somehow diminish the ...more »The D.E.A. and F.A.M.: Fallacies Against Marijuana
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Taken directly from their website, the non-sequitur approach to drug prohibition: 'The legalization movement is not simply a harmless academic exercise. The mortal danger of thinking that marijuana is "medicine" was ...more »Former DPA Intern Helps Defeat Student Drug Testing at her High School
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When former DPA intern Jessica Matuozzi learned from her younger brother that his high school --her former high school-- was considering a random student drug testing proposal, she didn't take ...more »USA: Worse Than The Thunderdome
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The U.S. is no longer happy with just being the world police, we now must be the world police, judge, jury, and executioner. According to the Los Angeles Times, November 30, ...more »Commemorating World AIDS Day
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"In the criminalization of both drugs and sex, the state claims for itself the right to police consensual adult behaviors and punish willing participants." Author Wendy Chapkis, professor of Sociology and ...more »Victory in Common Sense, 75th Anniversary
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That's right, 75 years ago today, Alcohol Prohibition came to a close. Called "the Noble Experiment," more of a misnomer; it was an experiment in suppressing the sovereign rights of U.S. ...more »California’s Prison Crisis: Asking the Wrong Question
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I've been attending the California prison law suit brought by mentally ill prisoners who have alleged that the care they received in prison is so poor it constitutes cruel and ...more »Let’s End Drug Prohibition
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Today is the 75th anniversary of that blessed day in 1933 when Utah became the 36th and deciding state to ratify the 21st amendment, thereby repealing the 18th amendment. This ...more »