Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Minnesota Cops Fear Loss Of Millions If Pot Legalized
by Betsi Fores. The Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition’s opposition to marijuana legalization is another case of the drug war run amok. The coalition, which includes Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Minnesota Sheriffs Association, Minnesota County Attorneys Association, and ... MORE
Stanton Peele: Why We Have Drug Scares
Are there greater social problems we can't face? How many drug scares can you identify? Jacob Sullum identified these from 2013: marijuana, Salvia divinorum, cocaine,"bath salts," absinthe, Four Loko. Well, let’s go back a ways. Of course there was crack. There were horse tranquilizers. There was OxyContin. Before Oxy there were ... MORE
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alcohol,
bath salts,
cocaine,
drug war,
drugs,
marijuana,
meth,
painkillers,
prohibition,
society
Can Drug Czar Be Required To Respect Science?
by Johnny Green. A radical bill is introduced to Congress. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced a bill Tuesday that would change federal law so that the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), commonly known as the “drug czar,” is no longer prohibited from studying the legalization of marijuana and no longer ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
cannabis,
czars,
drug war,
drugs,
government,
marijuana,
pot,
prohibition,
science
Jacob Sullum: Why Reschedule Marijuana?
Introducing reality into the equation. Ever since Congress passed the Controlled
Substances Act (CSA) in 1970, drug policy reformers
have complained that
marijuana does not belong on Schedule I, the statute's most
restrictive drug category. Schedule I ostensibly is reserved for
drugs with a "high potential for abuse" that have "no ... MORE
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cannabis,
drug war,
drugs,
government,
marijuana,
medical marijuana,
regulation,
restrictions
The Electric Chair Could Return In Louisiana
by Michelle Millhollon. Twenty-three years after the state retired Gruesome Gertie and switched to lethal injection for executions, the electric chair could make a comeback in Louisiana. States are scrambling for death penalty alternatives because of a clampdown on the availability of deadly drugs for executions. Old-time tools that were ... MORE
6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken
by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl. Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the
news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting
headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists ... MORE
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drugs,
FDA,
food,
food safety,
mathematics,
propaganda,
reality,
safety,
science,
statistics
Robert Taylor: Legalize Coke, Heroin & Every Other Drug
Why stop at weed? Now that Colorado and Washington state have nullified and defied
federal law by re-legalizing marijuana, it is the time to re-legalize
all drugs and kickstart the domino effect that will finally put an end
to the disastrous war on drugs. Since marijuana is a comparably safe drug to legal products like
alcohol and tobacco while also ... MORE
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drug war,
drugs,
government,
legalize,
liberty,
marijuana,
prohibition,
vice,
victimless crimes
No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare
by Scott Gottlieb. The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue ... MORE
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deception,
dishonesty,
doctors,
drugs,
medical,
medicine,
ObamaCare,
painkillers,
restrictions
Brian Doherty: Higher Is Healthier?
Surprising findings from psychedelic science. Despite what you might have learned from old government-sponsored black-and-white educational films or hippie-era exploitation flicks, psychedelic drugs do not drive you inexorably insane. A new study in PLoSOne, an online peer-reviewed journal from the Public Library of Science, ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Crack Canards And Meth Myths
Neuroscientist nukes popular misconceptions. Growing familiarity with marijuana has been accompanied
by growing
support for legalization because people discovered through
personal experience that the government was lying to them about the
drug’s hazards. But it is easier to demonize less popular drugs
such as crack cocaine and ... MORE
Who Should Make Medical Choices For You?
by Lawrence W. Reed. Almost a decade ago, I went to Canada to obtain a customized medical procedure on both of my eyes—a procedure not yet approved by federal authorities in the United States. It involved a new “wavefront” LASIK technology designed for patients with a combination of astigmatism and very thin corneas. For more ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: In Defense Of Alex Rodriguez
At least, spare us the outrage. Alex Rodriguez’s career—and Hall of Fame hopes—died for somebody’s sins, but not his. No, the Yankee slugger is simply the latest fall guy for our society’s infantile belief in sports as an imaginary zone somehow separate and apart from the real world, a sort of grown-ups’ version of Chuck E. Cheese’s ... MORE
A Guide To The World's Most Libertarian Countries
by Alasdair Baverstock. As Uruguay, a country which has never criminalised cannabis for personal use, turns to legalising its cultivation and distribution, we look at other trailblazing, libertarian countries. In 2001, Portugal became the first European country to decriminalise possession of all drugs for personal use. The country introduced ... MORE
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drugs,
freedom,
gay rights,
government,
individual liberty,
libertarian,
prostitution,
tax rates
Mark K. Matthews: TSA Misconduct Is On The Rise
Luggage theft. Drug use. Sleeping on the job. These are just a handful
of nearly 10,000 reports of misconduct involving employees at the Transportation Security Administration from 2010 to 2012, according to a new watchdog report. As
disturbing, wrote federal investigators, is that these allegations are
on the rise: increasing from 2,691 reports ... MORE
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authority,
corruption,
drugs,
government,
search and seizure,
theft,
transportation,
travel,
TSA
Yelp Of Pot, Leafly, Is Tip Of Marijuana Missionary's Spear
by Peter Cohan. Brendan Kennedy wants to make the world safe for investing in
marijuana. Kennedy, CEO at Seattle’s $5.5 million (assets under
management) Privateer Holdings, believes that he can make a profit and
make the world better by investing in marijuana companies. Kennedy earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, ... MORE
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drug war,
drugs,
invest,
law,
legalize,
marijuana,
medical marijuana,
politics,
pot,
prohibition
James Hamblin: There Will Always Be More Drugs
Another reason the war on drugs is a failure. A trillion dollars deep and arguably no further forward, the war on
drugs continues to meet new fronts. Only recently have designer drugs
taken hold in forms that effectively mimic the physiologic effects of
the substances we've spent decades and lives and fortunes to eliminate.
The target moves ... MORE
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addiction,
black market,
chemicals,
drug war,
drugs,
government,
prohibition,
substance abuse
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