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The Other Revolution in Latin America: Leading the Way To a More Progressive Drug Policy
14 hours ago ago from Fog City Journal
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11 hours ago ago from NWO Observer
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13 hours ago ago from Drug WarRant
We've had some good (and some volatile) discussions in comments recently, particularly over what constitutes drug policy reform and its end goals. This is quite healthy (as long as we avoid the name-calling). We have a number of people who frequent this site with different views both of our destination and our route to get there (and even how we should publicly describe our route to get there). I'm going to inject LEAP's Norm Stamper ...
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Related contentSame old, same old
17 hours ago ago from Node in the Noosphere
The Asia Times publishes the, " Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed By Julien Mercille " in which the post war tale is told of US involvement in drug smuggling. We were shocked once, now we wonder why they bother reporting it. Nothing will happen, no one will be indicted. There wont be a trial, no one will be jailed. Anyway, here's the real McCoy from way back when ...
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