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Book Review: "Pot Politics: Marijuana and the Costs of Prohibition," Mitchell Earleywine, ed. (Oxford University Press, $45.00 HB)
"Pot Politics" is an important new addition to the marijuana policy knowledge base and the reformer's arsenal.
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Blasphemy: College Reporter Quotes Us in Defense of the HEA Drug Provision
Ordinarily a lame anti-drug editorial in a college paper would escape our attention. Not this time. Nicki Croly of The State Hornet in Sacramento uses statistics from our website in defense of the HEA drug provision:
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Feature: Colorado Marijuana Legalization Initiative Trails, But the Fight Is On
A Colorado initiative that would legalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana is in a tough battle to win in November.
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Is it my breath? or the travails of alternative advocacy journalism.
Sometimes I feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of alternative advocacy journalism. I just donât get no respect, especially from drug reform foes (for some reason). The two big stories I'm working on this week are the marijuana initiatives in Colorado and Nevada, where big fights are brewing. Here is a list of people or organizations involved in trying to defeat the initiatives who either refused to talk to me or failed to respond to repeated calls about their efforts:
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Feature: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Organizers See Tight But Winnable Race Going Into Final Stretch
Will Nevada be the first state to vote to end marijuana prohibition? It's a very tight race.
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Southwest Asia: Leading Scholar Takes Senate Foreign Relations Committee to School on Afghan Drug Trade
Professor Barnett Rubin gives the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a tutorial on the economic and political consequences of prohibition when it comes to Afghan opium.
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Hemp: North Carolina Governor Signs Bill to Study Industrial Use
North Carolina has become the latest state to lay the groundwork for industrial hemp farming.
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Weekly: This Week in History
Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.
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Sentencing: No Retroactive Relief for Rockefeller Drug Law Prisoners, New York Appeals Court Rules
Mid-level Rockefeller drug law prisoners arrested before January 2005 will not be able to seek retroactive sentence cuts, New York's highest court has ruled.
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Marijuana: Arkansas Town Joins List of Locales With Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Initiatives This November
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, now joins Missoula, Montana, and three California cities as locales with initiatives on the November ballot making marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority.
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Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
The lucrative cross-border drug traffic draws another Border Patrol agent into trouble, a New Jersey cop's forgetfulness gets him in trouble, and two more greedy prison guards get themselves in trouble.