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http://cannabisliberty.com Marijuana News and Views Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/03/1238801280589/ Maia Szalavitz: Is the Media Finally Getting it On Drug Policy? For years, virtually every internet discussion of drug policy has been dominated by drug policy reformers and outright legalization advocates--but this growing sentiment amongst the most educated and connected went unreported. Maybe the MSM is finally waking up--they ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/03/open-thread-61/ Reminder: Glenn Greenwald will be at the Cato Institute tomorrow (Friday) at noon Eastern to talk about his paper: Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies. Peter Reuter will be responding, and Tim Lynch, moderating. If you can't get to the Cato Institute, ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/02/decrim-in-portugal/ Another big one dares to suggest the marijuana legalization question: Joe Klein in Time Magazine. But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/02/its-high-time/ This isn't really a drug policy reform post, but there's a connection that I'll get to. You may have heard about the ridiculous District Attorney George Skumanick, Jr. of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania and his "sexting" case. (Simply put, sexting is when kids take pictures of themselves or friends naked and ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/02/das-gone-wild/ Mark Kleiman thinks White House Spokesman Gibbs did pretty well. Andrew Sullivan, following HuffPo blogger Paul Armentano thinks that Robert Gibbs, the White House press spokesman, was "inarticulate, vapid, and embarrassed" in answering a question about legalizing cannabis as an economic stimulus. Actually, I thought Gibbs did pretty well. Perhaps he was ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/01/gibbs-is-defended/ Breaking news... Administration sources confirmed today that President Obama has chosen a successor to Michele Leonhart as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Leonhart was a holdover from the Bush administration and there has been significant speculation regarding the future of the leadership of this controversial agency, particularly given the ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/04/01/new-dea-head-named/ I haven't commented about the guy who's been shopping around the video that supposedly shows Joe Biden's daughter doing cocaine, because I just wasn't interested. Eric Sterling has it right. This person is a disgusting sleazebag. [...] None of us would ever want a videotape of our child's indiscretions made public. Persons who ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/03/31/about-that-cocaine-video/ President Obama's no dummy. He's intelligent and he's educated. He's from Chicago. Is he purposely throwing softballs? President Obama: Well, what's happened is that President Calderon I think has been very bold and rightly has decided that it's gotten carried away. The drug cartels have too much power, are ... http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/03/31/im-starting-to-wonder-if-its-intentional/ Andrew Sullivan gets readers talking about the marijuana closet -- the awkward place so many users reside that prevents them from talking openly. This convinces more to come out of the closet. Jason Kuznicki Positive Liberty comments on this development and hopes for more. I agree. http://cannabisliberty.com/2009/03/31/coming-out-of-the-closet/