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05.17.10
Green Aid Activist: MISSOURI SWAT TEAM FEELS THE HEAT

Thanks to everyone who filed official complaints with the Columbia, MO Police Dept. and those who passed the video and information along.-Green Aid ---Missouri SWAT Team Gets Restrictions After Outrage Over Dog-Killing Pot Raid VideoStop the Drug War Issue #632, May 14, 2010

05.17.10
The economics of drug supply

Supply-side drug warriors have generally taken the position that the idea behind eradication and interdiction is that you drive up the price of the illegal drugs (and in fact, people like John Walters used to get extremely excited over isolated local reports of increased prices for some drugs).

Problem is, they never really took it past that step. It was almost like an underpants gnomes version of drug policy

05.15.10
Prohibition Kills

bullet image Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton:

“I hate the Internet”

05.14.10
DC: Jared Polis Grills Eric Holder On DEA Raids Of Medical Marijuana
DC: Jared Polis Grills Eric Holder On DEA Raids On Medical Marijuana

Huffington Post / 14 May / 2010

05.08.10
CO: Mom's New Bake Sale:Activists Trying To Persuade Moms Marijuana Safer Than Booze
CO: Mom's New Bake Sale: Pot Activists Trying To Persuade Moms Marijuana Is Safer Than Booze

05.01.10
AFG: Afghanistan Now World's Top Cannabis Source: U.N.
AFG: Afghanistan Now World's Top Cannabis Source: U.N.
Reuters / 31 Mar 2010 / Jonathon Burch

KABUL (Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier of cannabis, with large-scale cultivation in half of its provinces, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

04.29.10
Associated Press: “Study Links Drug Enforcement to More Violence”

Just in case this recent CNN headline — “Government: More than 22,000 dead in Mexico drug war” — didn’t make this point crystal clear, we now have a scientific study published by the good folks at International Centre for Science in Drug Policy to drive home the painfully obvious.

04.28.10
If I was President… of Colombia

At Colombia Reports: The biggest loser in the presidential campaign is the war on drugs

The article discusses the problems with the war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico, and then talk about the close race for replacing Uribe as President.

Colombia’s presidential candidates need to have a good, long think about what a post-Uribe drugs policy will look like. [...]

04.26.10
OR: Jack Herer, Advocate For Marijuana Legalization, Dies At 70
OR: Jack Herer, Advocate For Marijuana Legalization, Dies At 70
Los Angeles Times / April 24, 2010 / John Hoeffel

04.21.10
DC: Smoke from 4/20 clears
DC: Smoke from 4/20 clears
WashingtonPost / Jenna Johnson / April 21, 2010

04.19.10
CNBC — The Marijuana Lobby: All Grown Up

Just in time for 4/20, cable news titan CNBC has launched “Marijuana & Money: A Special Report” — a comprehensive online collection of features and commentaries covering all things cannabis.

Headline stories and featured videos include:

04.07.10
UK: Galileo 2010
UK: Galileo 2010
HuffingtonPost / by Micheal Carmicheal / 04,07,2010

04.04.10
UN: Afghanistan now world's top cannabis source: U.N.
UN: Afghanistan now world's top cannabis source
Rueters / by Jerry Norton / 04,02,2010

(Reuters) - Long the world's largest producer of opium, the raw ingredient of heroin, Afghanistan has now become the top supplier of cannabis, with large-scale cultivation in half of its provinces, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

World

03.31.10
NM: VA doctors prohibited from prescribing medical pot
VA doctors prohibited from prescribing medical pot
3-31-2010 | Sue Major Holmes | The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When Paul Culkin came home to New Mexico after serving with an Army bomb squad in Iraq, he tried counseling and medications offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cope with his post traumatic stress disorder.

03.27.10
DC: Five myths about Mexico's drug war
DC: Five myths about Mexico's drug war

March28, 2010 / Andrew Selee, David Shirk and Eric Olson
washingtonpost.com

03.27.10
FL:NFL personnel men concerned by marijuana 'epidemic' in draft class
FL: NFL personnel men concerned by marijuana 'epidemic' in draft class
SI.com / March 23, 2010 / Don Banks

03.25.10
MEX: Mexico Bristles As Some U.S. States Relax Marijuana Laws
MEX: Mexico Bristles As Some U.S. States Relax Marijuana Law
McClatchy Newspapers / Thur Mar 25 / Tim Johnson

03.17.10
TN: Tenn. Med Mexaminer Arrested On Drub Charges
TN: Teen., Miss. Med Examiner Arrested On Drug Charges
March 17, 2010 / Nashville Tenn, / Associated Press

03.15.10
WA: Washington Medical Pot Activist Shoots Robber
WA: Washington Medical Pot Activist Shoots Robber
Spokesman.com / March 15, 2010 / Associated Press

03.11.10
John DiIulio statement is no surprise, but a reminder to urge change on medical marijuana

In the spring issue of the journal Democracy, John J. DiIulio Jr., the former White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W.

03.07.10
TX: Drug Budget: Time To Throw Tomatoes?
TX: Drug Budget: Time To Throw Tomatoes?
The Austin Chronicle | 3/5/2010 | Jordan Smith

03.04.10
CO: Column: The War Next Door

The War Next Door
High Country News | 3/1/2010| Charles Bowden


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02.28.10
Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy

US: Obama Continues Bush-Era "Drug War" Hypocrisy
Cannabis Culture | 2/26/2010 | Jesse Ventura, The Huffington Post

Despite President Obama's promises, the DEA is still going after medical marijuana providers.

02.28.10
RI: Senate panel may urge decriminalizing marijuana possession
Senate panel may urge decriminalizing marijuana possession
Journal State House Bureau | 2/28/2010 | Katherine Gregg

PROVIDENCE — When it wraps up its 3 1/2-month inquiry later this week, a Senate panel is expected to recommend decriminalizing possession of relatively small amounts of marijuana.

01.26.10
CA: Police Seek Subject In Northridge Clinic Robbery