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Surprise! Marijuana rehab counselor believes marijuana is “the drug for life’s future losers.”
The not famous Dr. Drew, Drew Edwards, the executive director of the Ennoble Foundation, has an opinion piece up at Jacksonville.com. Unsurprisingly, the man who makes a living off of the court-enforced mandatory rehab of minor marijuana offenders believes marijuana smoking makes you a loser. A study published in 2007 by the medical journal Addiction [...]
California values prisoners more than students
This is from a brilliant op-ed by the dean of the California State University system: (SF Gate) During the budget debate, it became clear to me that something unthinkable has happened in California: Our fiscal meltdown has so distorted our legislative priorities that we are now a state that places a higher priority on prison [...]
Teen marijuana dealers beat man to death over nickel bag
(Detroit News) Warren — Authorities have charged four teens in connection with the beating death of a man Sunday over a $5 bag of marijuana, officials said. The suspects have been identified as Kevin David Antone, 18, of Warren; Thomas Henry Post, 17, of Roseville; Jacob Steven Androsuk, 17, and Brandon Lee Ebel, 16, both [...]
Republican Moms for Marijuana
(ColoradoDaily.com) BOULDER, Colo. — As a Republican mother committed to legalizing marijuana, political life can be lonely. But while many in my party whisper about the Drug War’s insanity, we should shout it from the rooftop: the time to legalize is now. If history is any guide, the crucial female voting bloc, including many Republicans, [...]
Texas ISD exemplifies Nationwide Problem
An average ISD in Texas has an alarming problem, their Children have Marijuana in their school!!! From my alter-ego blog on our Dallas – Fort Worth NORML blog, I wrote a small rant about a local ISD poll that was taken in regards to cigarettes, alcohol, Marijuana and other drugs. From the Dallas Morning News, [...]
ER doctor: “cannabis may be the most benign substance on earth”
Stasher MoldyCutter forwarded me a comment he found on a post at the New York Times that answers beautifully the prohibitionist’s claim that “emergency room admissions for marijuana are skyrocketing!”: 15 years of full time emergency medicine and I’ve maybe seen 10 visits to the ER for cannabis – these fall into 2 categories: 1. [...]
New Jersey Reefer Madness from David H. Kerr
It’s always helpful to get out your Reefer Madness Bingo Cards before we start debunking the latest prohibitionist columns. This one comes from David H. Kerr in New Jersey. Marijuana Legalization – a Growing Debate Posted by David H. Kerr July 20, 2009 9:43PM … California’s “top tax collector estimates that taxing pot like liquor [...]
D.A.R.E. “does not work”, so let’s give it $14 million more
(Chatham Courier) A $14 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has provided the D.A.R.E. program with new science-based curricula. The new research and program sprung from the results of numerous studies that indicated the D.A.R.E. program had failed to stop the scourge of alcoholism and drug addiction among youth. The federal General Accounting [...]
Keep your kids off pot by BECOMING a pothead!
I know this is written as satire, but this column does have an element of truth in it. I believe that part of the reason teen marijuana smoking has declined in the past ten years is because the acceptance of medical marijuana turns “hip rebellious reefer” into “boring old folks medicine”. (Santa Barbara Independent) If [...]
Marijuana No Longer Focus of Anti-Drug Campaigns
(CBS News) Over the last several years, without many people realizing it, the U.S. government has changed the focus of its anti-drug efforts, deemphasizing marijuana in favor of prescription drugs. A CBS News survey of government and nonprofit anti-drug groups has found a retreat from anti-marijuana campaigns over the past several years as prescription and [...]