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Archive for October, 2005

A surgeon’s plan for legalized drugs

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Dr. Joseph Foreman’s plan is a little more hard line than ours, but the same principles can be applied to marijuana legalization.
“You have to control the suppliers. Once you take their profits away, they dry up. This is how we keep young people from getting hooked,” he said.
Foreman, 79, lives in Churchville and [...]

Is the drug war succeeding?

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

An excellent article about how the war on drugs should be measured can be found here at the Harvard Law Bulletin.
“If we’re lucky, our grandchildren will recall the global war on drugs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries as some bizarre mania,” says Nadelmann. “The true challenge is learning to live with drugs [...]

The face of waste

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

A humorous-yet-pragmatic take on the conviction of Tommy Chong over at Herohill.com.
What blows my mind wide open is that this government sting operation cost tax payers 12 MILLON DOLLARS.
12 million dollars to arrest Chong for selling glass pipes. I’m pretty sure Chong probably sleeps on a bed made of pot, and he was selling [...]

Randy Moss singled out for occasional marijuna use

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

In what was probably the worst career move he’s ever made, Randy Moss admitted to the occasional use of marijuana in an HBO sports interview.
Randy Moss may regret he was ever frank while on camera.
The Oakland Raiders receiver is waiting to hear from the NFL if he’ll be placed in the league’s drug [...]

Drug War Discussion

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Open forum on the drug war:
I’m also sick of the “slippery slope” argument that these people always bring up when they want to maintain status quo. The inverse of that argument is what a slippery slope we would have if we started making all drugs illegal, like alcohol, aspirin, caffeine, etc. OMG, where would it [...]