Some folks in California are pitching a way to solve the state’s budget crisis:
A pro-marijuana group is launching another television bid to legalize pot in California — this time with the pitch that legalizing and taxing the drug could help solve the state’s massive budget deficit.
The 30-second spot, airing Wednesday and paid for by the […]

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Got a bit of a rise out of the story this morning about how Manheim Township School District officials are spending their summer worrying about drugs.
The district has released a survey and is forming a committee to study the issue (and don’t you love that? My God, what shall we do about the scourge of drugs? […]

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Via Sullivan, who rarely has time for anything but Iran these days - a piece in Slate which indicates that states’ revenue woes are one big reason why we’re hearing more about the possibility of legalizing marijuana:
Jeffrey Miron, a Harvard economist and proponent of broad drug decriminalization, suggests that we look to alcohol and cigarette […]

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Mmmm…. brains.

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Time’s Joe Klein comes out in favor of legalizing pot - noting, as Sen. Jim Webb did in Parade last week and we noted in the vid, that pot busts are filling our prisons; and also noting the possibility of a tax windfall if dope were made legal:
So why not do it? There are serious […]

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Sullivan has been running a fascinating set of letters from readers this week, from people who acknowledge that they are in the “cannabis closet.”
There’s the 42-year-old married father of three, a homeowner and a football coach. A 41-year-old contract manager for a govenment agency and treasurer for the PTA. A middle-aged woman with two teenage […]

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 Good God, just what do these people think they’re doing?
As many as eight people have been arrested on drug charges in an effort to build a marijuana possession case against Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, an attorney for one of the defendants confirmed this morning.
Longtime Columbia attorney Dick Harpootlian said Richland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested […]

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From the WSJ:
As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U.S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point.
“The available evidence indicates that the war on drugs is a failed war,” said former Brazilian […]

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Whoa can you feel it:
a teacher and swimming coach I will continue to tell kids that POT SMOKING is bad…as I do with alcohol, cigarettes, staying out after curfew, disobeying parents, not doing homework, etc.  If we (parents, teachers, journalists, coaches, clergy,etc.) don’t do it who will?  Because of the mistakes of some top athletes are we just […]

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Was thinking about this one over the weekend, as the Steelers’ Santonio Holmes caught the game-winning touchdown pass in the Super Bowl, and in fact shone that entire final drive - four catches, 73 yards on that drive alone. And Super Bowl MVP honors.
But, per the Michael Phelps bong hit photos, Santonio Holmes has also […]

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So I’m reading the latest story about these Manheim Township kids busted for allegedly selling drugs to an undercover cop and I come across this:
Santos was charged with selling 4.1 grams of marijuana to an undercover police officer at 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 14 in the parking lot of Penn Cinema on Airport Road in Manheim […]

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Or, how it appears that the DEA might now be getting a little help from Blackwater.

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