Maybe the war against pot is about to get a lot uglier. After all, in the 1920s, Prohibition gave us Al Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and that was over plain old whiskey and rum. Are we about to start paying the same price for marijuana? Full Story »
Posted by Glenn LaBauve - via Publish2 (Politics), Mother Jones
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The article addresses a spectrum of issues in a relatively impartial way. Racist aspects of marijuana enforcement are ignored. The cost statistics of police enforcement of marijuana laws sound incorrect, based upon other sources, but the article is a good read.
raising the drinking age did lead to lower alcohol consumption; the effect was modest but real. But then DiNardo hit on another analysis—comparing cannabis use in states ... More »
Overall a good article, but fails to even acknowledge Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy--the two organizations that are convincing local cops and U.N. officials that prohibition is simply a bad idea..
Even if it is done so to perhaps befriend or gain credit with cynical readers, it is in poor taste to poke fun at the "hemp hucksters" you clearly ... More »
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