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Senate Unanimously Confirms Leonhart as DEA Head
Acting DEA head Michele Leonhart won unanimous approval from the Senate Wednesday to head the agency permanently.
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Pat Robertson Clarifies Position on Marijuana Laws
A day after delighting the reform movement and presumably causing drug warriors nationwide to spit coffee on their keyboards, the Christian Broadcasting Network would like to clarify Pat Robertson's remarks. I received this email today.
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No Mas: Mexico Students Unite to Stop Drug War
Amidst a deadly drug prohibition war in Juarez, Mexico, a group of college students have emerged from the violence to tell their city that they've had enough. The Juarez "students are quite heroic," said Bruce Bagley, who heads the Latin American affairs department at the University of Miami. "The fact that they are standing up to the military has highlighted the fact that the military in its conduct of the war on drugs in Mexico has actually fallen into numerous human rights violations.
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Pat Robertson Says Legalize Marijuana
Here's an early Christmas gift from one of the last people you thought was going to take a stand for drug law reform:
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This Year's Top 10 International Drug Policy Stories
It's been a busy year on the global drug policy front. Here, we look at some of the biggest stories.
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This Year's Top 10 Domestic Drug Policy Stories
This was your year on drugs. Or at least, your year in drug policy reform. Here's our top 10 drug policy issues of the year.
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The 700 Club's Pat Roberston Supports Ending Cannabis Prohibition In An Effort To Get 'Smart On Crime'
Televangelist and former Baptist minister Pat Robertson makes a cogent argument on alternatives to arresting and incarcerating citizens who use drugs, with a clear emphasis on legalizing the possession of a few ounces of cannabis.
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Momentum Is Building to End the Failed Drug War: Top Stories of 2010 (Opinion)
Tony Newman, communications director for the Drug Policy Alliance, says the debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. He shares what he feels are some of the most significant stories from 2010 and the reasons why he's encouraged that we can start finding an exit strategy from America's longest running war.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
From the Rio Grande Valley to New York City, it's more cops gone wild this week.
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Drug Trafficking Organization's Bandits Stealing Oil to Fuel Mexican Drug Prohibition War Kill 27
A breeched oil pipeline caused a massive blast in the Mexican town of San Martin Texmelucan. Rivers of fire coursed through the streets, killing at least 27 people and damaging 115 houses.
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Mexico Drug War Update
More than 12,000 dead in Mexico's prohibition-related violence as of November 30, according to the Mexican attorney general, and more than 30,000 since Calderon called out the troops in December 2006.
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Drug War Defenders Beg Obama to Help Prevent Pot Legalization
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This Christian Science Monitor editorial positively reeks of desperation. You've got to give the prohibitionists at CSM some credit for seeing the writing on the wall, but their silver-bullet strategy for beating back the movement for marijuana legalization is a little less than intimidating:
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Angry Jurors Refuse to Convict in Marijuana Case
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As Americans grow increasingly disgusted by the waste and injustice of the War on Drugs, it seems inevitable that we'll reach a point at which the public no longer accepts the embarrassing excesses of prohibition. That's exactly what just happened in Montana, and it's a story that ought to terrify the drug war establishment.
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Please Make a Year-End Gift for Our 2011 Campaigns
Help bring about the brighter future that awaits us beyond prohibition, by making a tax-deductible educational donation or a non-deductible lobbying donation before year's end.
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Patients Protest Israel's First Medical Marijuana Raid
An Israeli police raid on a medical marijuana dispensary has sparked protests in Tel Aviv.
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Marijuana Legalization Billboard Goes Up on I-5 Near Seattle
Now, there's a sight for sore eyes! A huge pot legalization billboard has gone up on I-5 outside Seattle.
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Former British Drug Czar Says Legalize It All
The debate over British drug policy heats up again as a Labor stalwart who served as drug czar and defense minister calls for legalization.
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Montana Marijuana Prosecution Runs into Jury Pool "Mutiny"
You've heard of jury nullification? How about jury pool nullification? That's basically what happened to a small-time marijuana charge in Montana last week.
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Missoula District Court: Jury Pool in Marijuana Case Stages 'Mutiny'
A funny thing happened on the way to a trial in Missoula County District Court. Jurors â well, potential jurors â staged a revolt. They took the law into their own hands, as it were, and made it clear they werenât about to convict anybody for having a couple of buds of marijuana.
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EU Court Okays Dutch Coffee Shop Ban for Foreigners
A ruling by the European Court of Justice paves the way for the Netherlands to ban foreigners from buying weed in the country's famous coffee shops. Is Amsterdam about to become Amsterdone?