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Teens Rejecting Alcohol, Tobacco; Selecting Marijuana [FEATURE]
The annual Monitoring the Future survey of high school students find cigarette and alcohol use down, but marijuana use up.
Drug Use
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New Study: Smart People More Likely to Use Drugs
[image:1 align:right]I have a feeling they won’t be mentioning this in DARE class.
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New Drug Policy Videos from HCLU
In "The State of Harm Reduction in Europe," the film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union interviewed acti
Founding Statement: The European Network of People Who Use Drugs
On Wednesday 5th October, European drug user activists from 10 countries (1) met in Marseille to discuss the devel
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Vietnam Using Drug Takers as Slave Labor [FEATURE]
A shocking new report from Human Rights Watch details how Vietnamese "drug treatment centers" don't provide treatment, but do provide abuse, torture and virtual slave labor for private companies to exploit.
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Drugs, Freedom, and Responsibility at Burning Man
Editor's note: This is a repost of the piece I wrote about Burning Man last year. I couldn't top it, so I'm sharing it again. Enjoy.
Charlie Janssen
Welfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced in Nebraska
One Nebraska state senator has identified a grave threat to the Cornhusker State: Welfare recipients on drugs.
What the Drug War Has Wrought (Opinion)
John Sinclair opines on what drug prohibition has wrought. He says only the most nave, cynical or deluded among us can subscribe to the pervasive mythology of drug police, prosecutors and judges as fearless warriors valiantly fighting a depraved horde of heartless pushers and evil dope fiends whose anti-social pursuit of self-gratification by getting high threatens to destroy the American way of life and everything it stands for.
Puerto Rico Lawmaker Resigns Over Failed Drug Test
Rep. Rolando Crespo, a member of the Puerto Rican House of Representatives, resigned his seat two days after officials disclosed that a drug test showed he had used cocaine. Crespo was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2008. He was president of the powerful Rules and Calendar Committee.
Australia: Ecstasy Emerges As Secret Choice of Middle Age
Publicity about people being caught with party drugs usually concentrates on those in their teens and 20s. So when the Austalian Labor aide Matthew Chesher, 44, was charged with possessing one ecstasy tablet last week, the lid was lifted on a quite different phenomenon: the growing number of middle-aged ecstasy users. The generation that championed the drug in the '80s and '90s is getting older.