Showing posts with label Drugs Decriminalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drugs Decriminalization. Show all posts
Thursday, May 08, 2014

5 Nobel Prize Winners Call for the End of the War on Drugs

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More experts are jumping into the bandwagon against the war on drugs  From the London School of Economics and Political Science : (hat ...
Friday, November 09, 2012

An Emergent Trend on the War on Drugs? Mexico Considers Legalization

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The recent electoral victory to legalize drugs in parts of the US may have set the trend towards the decline to the war on drugs worldwide....
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Chart of the Day: Alcohol Deadlier than Illegal Substance?

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From the Business Insider We've covered the study by former UK drug czar David Nutt that found alcohol to be the most dangerous ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Video: The Economics of Drug Prohibition, Why Prohibition Laws Fail

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Holier-than-thou politically inclined people always like to preach about how we should prohibit drugs legally to "save society". D...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Bottom One Percent

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We hear a lot about the top 1%. We don't hear a lot about the bottom 1%. There are about 313 million people in America today . 1% of ...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

War on Drugs: Richard Branson Asked President Obama for a Weed

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Writes the Politico , When you go to a White House state dinner and you’re lucky enough to get some face time with the president, what ...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

War on Drugs: Misplaced ‘Follow the Money’ Priorities by Cops Results to More Crimes

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You think the war on drugs make society peaceful? Think again. Police officers, like any human being, also follow the money. But unlike us...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Ex-US President Jimmy Carter: Call Off the Global Drug War

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Former US President Jimmy Carter joins the bandwagon calling for an end to the Global War on Drugs. Writing in the New York Times , (bold ...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Global War on Drugs a Failed Policy

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Here is the statement from a report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy , a nineteen-member panel that includes, among others, world fig...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

When Vice Isn't A Crime: The Philosophical Flaws Of Prohibition Laws

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One of the main reasons society have been allured to prohibition laws is due to the popular fallacy that presumes baneful behavior from so-c...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Europe's Cannabis Usage and Drug Decriminalization

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The Economist gives us a perspective on the state of Cannabis usage in Europe. According to the Economist , ``OVER a fifth of Europeans have...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Drug Decriminalization: Regulation Versus Prohibition

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Here is an interesting article on drug decriminalization from Peter Moskos at the Washington Post . Some notes: 1. Regulation versus Prohibi...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Drug Decriminalization Caravan Gets Rollin'

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In our earlier posts War on Drugs: Learning From Portugal's Drug Decriminalization and Nicolas Kristof: Why The War On Drugs Is A Failu...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

War on Drugs: Learning From Portugal's Drug Decriminalization

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In an earlier post,[see Nicolas Kristof: Why The War On Drugs Is A Failure ], we dealt with the unorthodox suggestions of how to deal with t...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Nicolas Kristof: Why The War On Drugs Is A Failure

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The war on drugs seems to have turned out like the US prohibition of alcohol or the "Volstead Act" in the 1920s. The consequence...