Hovde on target
03-November-2004, Canada, The Colombian
Hurray for Elizabeth Hovde's Oct. 21 opinion column, "War on pot burns time, tax dollars." Finally someone using logic instead of emotion to address the issue of legalization of marijuana. Though I do not agree with her opinions of those who use ...
In the war on drugs, Europe must make a separate ...
03-November-2004, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Waiting to see who has won the most important US election for decades, the world has been an anguished bystander, pressing up against the window of the superpower. So much depends on America - from climate change to terms of global trade and ...
Marijuana initiatives fail in Alaska, Ore., pass ...
03-November-2004, United States, BP News
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Marijuana initiatives failed in two of the three states where they were on the ballot Nov. 2. Alaskans voted against decriminalizing the substance and voters in Oregon opted not to expand the state's medical marijuana laws. ...
The Stoned Myths of Canada
03-November-2004, Canada, getunderground.com
Bud Country. The legends, myths, and lore surrounding the pot paradise that Canada has become has reached legendary proportions. An incredible level of tolerance has created a relaxing toking environment that Potheads booting the bong filled with ...
The Usual Suspects
03-November-2004, United States, Alternet
It began, as many drug stings do, with a lucky break. In November 2002, a traffic cop pulled over a driver ferrying crack cocaine on U.S. Highway 79 into the small east Texas town of Palestine. Police believed they had caught a glimpse into a drug ...
Initiative to legalize pot fails big
02-November-2004, United States, Anchorage Daily News
With about 82 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, voters rejected by a crushing margin the notion that pot should be legal for adults 21 and older to possess, grow, buy or give away. Backers of Ballot Measure 2 spent huge sums making their ...
Liberals unveil pot bill for second time
01-November-2004, Canada, CBC News
OTTAWA - Paul Martin's Liberals reintroduced a controversial bill Monday that would decriminalize marijuana possession and replace criminal charges with fines for anyone caught with up to 15 grams of the drug.
The new possession bill comes with ...
Prison Issues, Drug War Hardly Factor Into ...
01-November-2004, United States, The New Standard
With over two million people behind bars, the US has a higher percentage of its citizens and residents locked up than does any other country. And as those incarceration rates continue to disproportionately hit communities of color and low-income ...
COCAINE RAP HERO
30-October-2004, United Kingdom, dailyrecord
A YOUNG soldier at the centre of a cocaine investigation received one of the country's highest awards for bravery from the Queen yesterday. Corporal Shaun Jardine, 22, was decorated with the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. But he is under investigation ...
Former Interpol Chief Calls Prohibition "Obsolete ...
29-October-2004, United States, DRC Net
In an op-ed piece Wednesday in the Paris newspaper Le Monde, Raymond Kendall, the former chief of the international law enforcement agency Interpol, called drug prohibition "obsolete and dangerous" and said its continuation represented a missed ...
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