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Why drug legalization is a civil rights issue

Seeded on Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:25 PM EDT (Reason Magazine)

"Because the illegality of drugs keeps the prices high," he says, "there are high salaries to be made in selling them. This makes selling drugs a standing tempting alternative to seeking lower-paying legal employment."

drugs, politics, end-the-drug-war

YouGov/Economist Poll Finds Most Americans Support Marijuana Legalization

Seeded on Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:12 PM EST (Reason Magazine)

A new YouGov poll commissioned by The Economist finds most Americans support marijuana legalization. Here is the question: Some people say marijuana should be treated like alcohol and tobacco. They say it should be regulated and taxed and made illegal for minors. Do you agree?

politics, marijuana, national-survey, drug-wars

Obama Thinks Drug Policy Is "Serious Issue," and Not Much Else

Seeded on Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:18 AM EST (mpp)

President Obama is at least taking the issue of drug policy reform seriously. But his response is not much better than what President Bush might have said.

marijuana, us-news, prohibition, cannabis, legalization

Medical marijuana bill introduced in Idaho

Seeded on Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:15 AM EST ()

If passed, Idaho would become the 16th state, along with the District of Columbia, to distinguish between medical and non-medical marijuana use. Idaho is surrounded by medical marijuana states, sharing borders with Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Montana.

marijuana, us-news, prohibition

Sarah Palin: "Sputnik Resulted In The Collapse Of The Soviet Union"

Seeded on Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:02 AM EST (News Hounds)

Seeded by Rodney-889389 (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

Ruh-Roh! Sarah Palin may have outdone herself in the foolishly ignorant comments department last night (1/26/11) - and this time she can't blame Katie Couric or Charles Gibson or anyone in the "lamestream media." No, this foolish ignorance came as the result of a simple que …

politics, sarah-palin, sputnik-resulted-in-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union

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Report Highlights Need to Remove Church Exemption from IRS

Seeded on Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:05 PM EST (American Humanist Association)

"Grassley's investigation exposed numerous high expenditures for purchases that were clearly not in the public interest," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. "When institutions of any kind aren't held accountable there will be abuses.

politics, senate-finance-committee, american-humanist-association, church-finance-fraud, chuck-grassleyrsquo-s, parsonage-allowance-allowing

Pot Prohibition Is the Cornerstone of a Police State

Seeded on Mon Nov 1, 2010 1:25 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Seeded by McSpocky (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

The simple truth about America's marijuana prohibition: any law that allows the easy incarceration of any citizen any time those in power want to do it is the ultimate enemy of democracy.

politics, california, police-state, legalize-pot, legalize-marijuana, legalization-of-marijuana, 2010-election, election-2010, prop-19, california-proposition-19

19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal

Seeded on Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:17 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)

Seeded by McSpocky (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

After almost 100 years of marijuana prohibition in California, marijuana is more popular and accepted than ever. Prohibition has clearly failed.

california, us-news, legalize-pot, legalize-marijuana, legalization-of-marijuana, prop-19, california-proposition-19, ca-prop-19

Marijuana 'epidemic' in NFL draft class

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:26 AM EDT (CNN)

[An] increased number of prospects ... have a history of marijuana use in their background, with players often acknowledging a failed drug test for pot in college in interviews with team executives.

sports, legalize, war-on-drugs, responsible-cannabis-use, marijuana-as-pain-relief

MarijuanAmerica

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:19 AM EDT (Rolling Stone)

From California to downtown Detroit, there's a green revolution sweeping across the nation — and it's changing the weed business forever

politics, war-on-drugs, cannabis-cultivation, legal-marijuana, california-ballot-initiative, emerald-triangle

Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:20 AM EDT (Reason Magazine)

These outrageous numbers should provide a long-overdue wake-up call to public officials about how far the pendulum has swung toward institutionalized police brutality against its citizenry, usually in the name of the drug war.

politics, drug-war, police-violence, swat-raids

Marijuana Decriminalization Advances

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:12 AM EDT (Reason Magazine)

Three recent legislative developments reinforce the impression of growing tolerance. Polls consistently find that most Americans don't think people should go to jail for smoking pot, so this sort of reform does not seem terribly risky in political terms.

politics, drug-war, marijuana-decriminalization

'You Cut Spending'

Seeded on Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:45 AM EDT (Reason Magazine)

Former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks about Obamanomics, ending the drug war, and climbing the highest mountains. ... I believe that the issue is at a tipping point nationally.

politics, drug-war, limited-government, gary-johnson

Awe! The Biology of Faith

Seeded on Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:47 PM EST (dailygalaxy.com)

Seeded by Ageing Hippie (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

The awe-inspiring distance normally perceived between humans and their gods through ritual, according to Joseph Campbell, is "the one great story of myth: that in the beginning we were united with the source, but that we were separated from it and now we must find a way to return …

religion, god, faith, humanity, creation

Slowly, states are lessening limits on marijuana

Seeded on Tue Mar 9, 2010 12:38 PM EST (USA Today)

Seeded by Jimster (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

LOS ANGELES — James Gray once saw himself as a drug warrior, a former federal prosecutor and county judge who sent people to prison for dealing pot and other drug offenses.

marijuana, us-news, prohibition, cannabis, war-on-drugs, drug-policy, legalization

Wiccan altar puts teacher, officials at odds

Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 2:10 PM EST (The Des Moines Register)

Seeded by RAC 0129 (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

At first read, it would seem that the teacher in question was just being fair regarding ALL religous expression in the classroom. Further reading shows a definite tilt from his perspective.

religion, freedom-of-speech, separation-of-church-and-state, wiccan

A decade after Colorado voters approved medical marijuana, it's suddenly big business.

Seeded on Tue Mar 2, 2010 12:26 AM EST (Gazette.com)

"Amendment 20, approved by Colorado voters in 2000, authorized patients and their caregivers to possess a limited amount of marijuana but did not provide a way for them to get it. Patients were left with the options of growing their own or buying it on the black market.

medical, marijuana, us-news, cannabis, dispensary

Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers age

Mon Feb 22, 2010 5:30 AM EST

By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.

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Iowa Board of Pharmacy Recommends Medical Marijuana

Seeded on Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:32 PM EST (stopthedrugwar.com)

The Iowa Board of Pharmacy voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that state lawmakers reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II controlled substance and set up a task force to study how to create a medical marijuana program.

us-news, medical-marijuana, cannabis, war-on-drugs, legalization

I am not a Darwinist, are you?

Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:13 AM EST

By dungbeetlemania (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

In the everlasting debate between creationism and biological evolution labels are applied to both sides by both sides, and they are usually designed to be slightly dismissive or, very often, misleading.

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evolution, life, science, semantics, biology, origins, philosophy, creation, natural-selection

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Meet the Flintstones: a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together, half don't believe in evolution

Seeded on Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:21 AM EST (texastribune.org)

Seeded by Carloz (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

texas, evolution, us-news, creationism, rick-perry, polls, bill-white, polling, kay-bailey-hutchison, farouk-shami

Atheists Finding New Voice

Seeded on Mon Dec 7, 2009 10:10 PM EST (USA Today)

The voice of reason doesn't need to be loud or harsh.

women, religion, atheism

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Five questions for Radley Balko

Seeded on Wed Dec 2, 2009 12:26 AM EST (The Economist)

Perhaps I'm a bit pollyanna-ish, but it's at least possible that once the Obama administration proves just as inept, corrupt, and hopeless as the Bush administration, the younger people who flocked to Obama will start to understand that the problem isn't who's running government, …

politics, libertarians, reason-magazine, radley-balko

Trumped-Up Job Count Flunks Science Test

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:07 PM EST (Bloomberg.com)

Remembering the bailout was well underway under Bush II, I don't see this as a Republican or Democrat issue. It's simply a sign that the scale of the world economy may be too big.

economy, politics, obama, bailout, jobs-plan, economic-recovery

Record high temps are double the lows

Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:09 PM EST

By The Associated Press, HOPD (Clipped by wwcarlsagand)

Climate scientists normally are wary of associating daily weather events to longer term climate change, but new research does just that by showing that daily record high temperatures across the continental U.S. occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade.

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weather, record, science, climate, climate-change, temperatures, lows, highs, only-on-msnbc-com, -to-

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