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Culture« Previous EntriesGLOBAL STUDY SHOWS THAT DRUG PROHIBITION IS A FAILUREWednesday, July 2nd, 2008By Steve Higgins | According to a new survey the USA has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use in the world. Thank goodness the War for Drugs is working so well! Ohh... wait... that's the war ON drugs and it's supposed to protect us from ourselves and our nasty drug habits. Well anyway.. here's the details on the study: A survey of 17 countries has found that despite ... tagged Culture and World-NewsIndicators Point to a Softening of America’s Marijuana LawsTuesday, June 3rd, 2008 By Alexander Zaitchik | With key medical marijuana ballot initiatives likely to pass, and a more pot-friendly majority in Congress, there is room for optimism. You have to hand it to the Republican National Committee: Those guys really know how to pick the wrong fight.John McCain, already running against the public opinion grain in support ...
tagged Culture, Drugs and USA-NewsDecriminalising Pot Would Save $10 Billion a YearMonday, April 21st, 2008 By Justin Hartfield
Jeffery A. Miron finds that by decriminalizing cannabis, the federal government would generate $2.4 billion in federal tax revenue annually, and that an additional $7.7 billion would be saved as the cost of incarceration, policing, and processing offenders. Now, that's too much money to for the human brain to fully conceptualize, given the air ...
tagged Culture and USA-NewsHow to Improve the Economy - Legalise CannabisThursday, March 20th, 2008As I am wont to babel about the economy: here it goes again. President’s Bush’s economic stimulus package, which pledges to give the average tax payer a $600 rebate check sometime later this year, isn’t going to offset the negative impact produced by the net decline of 85,000 jobs in the first two months of 2008. The unemployment rate is a lagging indicator of ... tagged Culture and DrugsSalvia divinorum targeted as next marijuanaWednesday, March 12th, 2008Salvia divinorum is being targeted by U.S. lawmakers concerned that the inexpensive and easy-to-obtain plant could become the next marijuana, media reported Wednesday. Eight states have already placed restrictions on salvia, and 16 others, including Florida, are considering a ban or have previously. Salvia divinorum is not one of the several varieties of common ornamental garden plants known as salvia. Called nicknames like Sally-D, Magic Mint and Diviner's Sage, salvia is a hallucinogen ... tagged CultureFather Jailed For 0.01g Of CannabisFriday, February 8th, 2008By BETH HALE Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison. Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way back ... tagged CultureHow America Lost the War on DrugsSunday, December 2nd, 2007After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure Ben Wallace-Wells 1. AFTER PABLO On the day of his death, December 2nd, 1993, the Colombian billionaire drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was on the run and living in a small, tiled-roof house in a middle-class neighborhood of Medellín, close to the soccer stadium. He died, theatrically, ridiculously, gunned down by ... tagged CultureCannabis lowers greenhouse emissionsThursday, November 22nd, 2007Hemp helps with green movement Lucas Coppes As environmental consciousness increases, a plant with great potential to accommodate our generation’s awareness has re-emerged, but its negative associations leave some obstacles to overcome. Hemp, which is too often associated with marijuana, does come from the same family of plants, but yields a fraction of the active ingredient, THC. Hemp has the uncanny ability to help in solving many of the world’s major ... tagged Climate-Change and CultureMoronic marijuana policiesMonday, November 19th, 2007It's time for my annual rant on the stupidity of marijuana eradication and although it goes on nationally, in no place is it better illustrated than California where they've just completed their yearly attack on harmless plants. [T]he annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting had uprooted some 3 million plants, wiping out an estimated $11.6 billion worth of weed. That is more than twice the value of the state's largest ... tagged CultureCannabis may prevent breast cancerMonday, November 19th, 2007Marijuana compound shows promise in fighting breast cancer Machines Like Us A compound found in cannabis may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body. That’s the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. The study, by scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, is raising hope that CBD, a compound found in ... tagged Culture and Health-NewsTell the truth about cannabisTuesday, November 13th, 2007Tell the truth about cannabis and maybe we'll get somewhere Is there any wonder at all that everything which surrounds cannabis information-wise, is mixed up and confused? To illustrate this lets take a look at some news published this week through the worlds press. Cannabis far more toxic to the adolescent brain Just yesterday, a report was published by 'The Independent' newspaper in Ireland, as anti-cannabis an organisation as you'll ever find, in ... tagged CultureThe Truth About Marijuana LegalisationTuesday, September 4th, 2007There are millions of regular pot smokers in America and millions more infrequent smokers. Smoking pot clearly has far fewer dangerous and hazardous effects on society than legal drugs such as alcohol. Here is High Times's top 10 reasons to marijuana should be legal, part of its 420 Campaign legalization strategy. 10. Prohibition has failed to control the use and domestic production of marijuana. The government has tried to use criminal ... tagged CultureLie detectors target benefit claim cheatsSunday, September 2nd, 2007The Observer Benefit claimants and job seekers could be forced to take lie detector tests as early as next year after an early review of a pilot scheme exposed 126 benefit cheats in just three months, saving one local authority £110,000. Last May, the Department for Work and Pensions asked Harrow council in London to undertake a year-long, £63,000 pilot of the ground-breaking Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) technology. 'We will wait until ... tagged Big-Brother, Culture, Fraud, ID-Cards, Law, Police-State, Science, Security, Spying, Technology and UK-NewsPot Growers Are New Target in “War on Terror”Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Under Bush, terror has become a justification for any and every abuse of power. By Scott Thill Last time we checked in on the bizarro nexus between cannabis and terrorism, it was none other than actor/director Tommy Chong who was feeling the Bush administration's post-9/11 wrath. In fact, the stoner icon, whose fabled act was concurrently resuscitated for Fox's drugged and confused comedy hit ... tagged CultureSmoking Ban To Hit Amsterdam Coffee ShopsSaturday, June 9th, 2007By Mick Meaney RINF Alternative News A new Dutch law which comes into force in July 2008 will ban smoking in all Amsterdam coffee shops, the government decided on Friday. Amsterdam is a hot spot for tourists as relaxed laws allow the possession of soft drugs, such as Cannabis. Although Cannabis is officially banned in the Netherlands, consumers are allowed to carry less than 5 grams in their possession. Coffee shop owners believe the ... tagged Culture« Previous Entries |
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