Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5160085/ I’ve always said that there’s nothing to be gained from prohibition. We learned it in the 1930′s with alcohol and we see it now with drugs. When there is a demand,...
View ArticleMore Teens Smoking Marijuana Than Cigarettes
A government survey was published this week that shows that American teenagers are now smoking marijuana more than they are smoking cigarettes.
View ArticleMarijuana IS safer than alcohol. But that’s not why it should be legal.
We shouldn't regulate drugs because they are safe, we should regulate them because they are potentially harmful.
View ArticleOlympia, Washington, tavern allows marijuana smoking
Bar owner Frank Schnarr has opened up the second floor of his Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill in Olympia, Washington, to pot smoking.
View ArticleThe Top Five New Rhetorical Tricks of Kinder, Gentler Drug Warriors
The drug warriors of today are armed with a whole new set of talking points designed to reboot marijuana prohibition with a veneer of concern for addicts and children. We disarm the Top Five.
View ArticleLegalization among plethora of marijuana bills at Oregon Legislature
Bills to modify regulations for the Oregon medical marijuana program, add post-traumatic stress disorder to the qualifying conditions list, and legalize marijuana for recreational use have all been...
View ArticleFormer DEA Heads Urge Attorney General to Nullify State Marijuana Legalization
Who are these former DEA heads and why would they oppose legal marijuana?
View ArticleNew Wash. Pot Czar predicted $50/oz, said those concerned about price “smoke...
Kleiman answers my questions about the economic effects of marijuana legalization at the state level, expressing that the cost to the retail customer should be about $40 to $50 per ounce.
View Article“1 in 6 teens who try pot get addicted”, so where are all the addicts?
When you look at drinkers who started before age 18, over two-thirds of them still have a drink at least once a month. For cigarette smokers who started young, over one-third are having at least one...
View ArticleMichigan Hotel Boosts Business with Toker-Friendly Rooms
One businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found a novel way to increase the occupancy of his hotel by fifty percent - allow smoking, and not just tobacco.
View ArticleOfficials Fear E-Cigarette Use Concealing Pot Use
As the use of electronic cigarettes becomes more popular, endorsed by actors like Jenny McCarthy and Stephen Dorff, public health officials are raising alarms about the devices leading to underage...
View ArticleMarijuana Is Safer Than… Sugar?
According to a new Wall Street Journal poll, Americans find marijuana less harmful than sugar.
View ArticleThree New Polls on Marijuana Use
When YouGov asked “Is it possible to be a responsible adult and occasionally smoke marijuana?” 59% of Americans agreed.
View ArticleBig Tobacco: Marijuana Legalization Is The “Only Real Threat To Our Business”
“There is an obvious danger that, if more restrictions are placed on tobacco and if the marijuana habit notches up further small advances in legality, many people may switch from one to the other in...
View ArticleThe Marijuana Double Standard
If you smoked a joint in Denver or Seattle last week on vacation, you could lose your job, your child custody, and a shot at that new kidney.
View ArticleEven Tobacco Smoke-Free Bars Are Ridiculous Abridgments of Freedom
I always thought that in America, we should be free to do things so long as they don’t harm others, and even free to do things that may harm others so long as we take reasonable precautions.
View ArticleDrinking Alcohol is Taking HARD Drugs
By every measure, alcohol is not only a drug, it belongs in the same class as the “hard drugs”.
View ArticlePutting the College Daily Marijuana Smoking Numbers in Context
The use of the most dangerous legal drugs - alcohol and tobacco - is plummeting among young adults and minor teenagers. Marijuana use remains steady or lower among minor teenagers, but up among young...
View ArticleCigarette Smoking At All Time Lows (But Media Hypes Marijuana’s Rise)
The big story is this: daily cigarette smoking by young people is at its lowest recorded levels in history.
View ArticleMy Coverage of Drug Policy Alliance Reform Conference in DC
The conference is notable for its broad scope of not just marijuana law reform but policy examination for all drugs.
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