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End to marijuana prohibition a historic day in Drug War
The Justice Department on Thursday said it would not sue to block laws legalizing marijuana in 20 states and the District of Columbia, a move that proponents hailed as an important step toward ending the prohibition of the drug. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/30/us/politics/us-says-it-wont-sue-to-undo-state-marijuana-laws.html?ref=us Marijuana advocates praised the decision as a potentially historic shift in the federal government’s attitude […]
The new American Drug War
The new documentary by director Kevin Booth, American Drug War 2, highlights the case of a 2-year-old boy who lay in a coma not eating for over 40 days after surviving brain surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. His parents are told to make funeral arrangements. However, his father had read about a version of an ancient […]
Despite decriminalization, black pot smokers still targeted
Black Americans were nearly four times as likely as whites to be arrested on charges of marijuana possession in 2010, even though the two groups used the drug at similar rates, according to new federal data. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/marijuana-arrests-four-times-as-likely-for-blacks.html?ref=us This disparity had grown steadily from a decade before, and in some states, including Iowa, Minnesota and Illinois, […]
Dirty Babylon 