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Drug Legalization Update

Saturday, March 14, 2009

It turns out there is a western country will full legalization; including heroin and cocaine.  Portugtal.  Via Glenn Greenwald: In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present.  Last year, working with the Cato Institute, I went to that country in order to research the effects of the [...]

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Mexico does not sound sweet

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

It’s been 100 years since the first international effort to prohibit the drug trade. And in response to the chaos and murder rolling across Mexico, The Economist decided to mark the anniversary by calling, again, for an end to drug prohibition:   In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in [...]

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Yes they did

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Good news on the drug legalization front, from Reason: They still want an income tax (idiots) but 65 percent of Bay State residents have used the ballot process to decriminalize amounts of pot under an ounce. You’ll get civil penalties and up to a $100 fine once the law goes into effect.

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