Tag: legalization
Posted on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 10:46:15 PM EST
Tags: war on drugs, legalization (all tags)
Radley Balko outlines the collateral damage from the War on Drugs in a new article at Culture 11.
Prohibition militarizes police, enriches our enemies, undermines our laws, and condemns our sick to suffering.
There's also the enormous economic cost of prosecution and imprisonment and, as Radley points out: [More...]
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Posted on Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 10:57:13 PM EST
Tags: Marijuana, Legalization (all tags)
Amendment 44, by SaferChoice, was on Colorado's ballot this year. It would have legalized adult possession of up to one ounce of pot. The measure passed in Denver in 2004, and this was an attempt to make it state-wide. It failed.
For anyone who is interested, NORML has put up the audio of my talk to college kids the week before the election on why it should pass and why it is so critical for young people to register to vote and then weigh in on election day. It's about 15 minutes long.
Kids are the future. If you have a political pulpit to reach them, please use it. Rome wasn't built in a day and the Amendment will be back in 2008.
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