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Salon.com
July 16, 2002
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Lawmakers addicted to the quick fix Drug legislation like the proposed RAVE Act does more to promote illicit drug use than discourage it.   |
Reason
October 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Party Poopers You thought it was bad when you heard that you could lose your house if your son planted a few marijuana seeds in the corner of your yard. That was nothing. Under a Senate bill introduced last summer, you could go to prison for letting him hold a party where someone passes around a joint. |
Reason
July 2003
Sara Rimensnyder |
Rave On How a bad bill becomes a law: The RAVE Act, now officially known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, passed both the House and Senate in April without ever having gone through committee and without floor debate. |
Reason
November 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Spliff Split Candidates on marijuana: The U.S. House of Representatives once again rejected a measure aimed at stopping the DEA's interference with the therapeutic use of cannabis in the 12 states where it's legal. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Jacob Sullum |
Rave Rage Despite all the pot and LSD consumed at their concerts, no one ever tried to ban the Grateful Dead. But that's what the city of Chicago would like to do to raves, those all-night dance parties featuring electronic music, flashing lights, and silly hats... |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Cardinal Atones for Its Sins The drugmaker gets its licenses to distribute controlled substances reinstated. |
Reason
October 2004
Michael Erard |
Open Secrets How the U.S. government lost the drug war in cyberspace. |
PC World
July 30, 2002
Stephen Chiger |
Forgery Bill Could Criminalize Copying Protecting non-physical authentication could extend legislation to digital material, threaten fair use. |
Chemistry World
March 25, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Big pharma scores in US healthcare reform President Obama has signed the biggest US healthcare reform since the 1960s, and although it is largely seen as a victory for the pharmaceutical industry, some analysts are characterising it as a 'double-edged sword'. |
Reason
January 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Seed Case First the Drug Enforcement Administration tried to ban hemp foods by claiming they've been illegal for three decades; it's just that no one noticed until recently. In June the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected that gambit, forcing the DEA to issue new regulations. |
ifeminists
February 15, 2007
Terri Lynn Tersak |
Senator Joseph Biden: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing Senator Biden needs to be reminded what we call those who use violence to suppress the will of their own people and impose their ideology on them. This is how VAWA has operated here at home. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2011
Sean Williams |
China Clamps Down on Drug Manufacturers These drug manufacturers could be feeling a pinch from new Chinese price caps. |
Reason
January 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Seeds of Discord It turns out that the hand cream you bought at The Body Shop last year was a controlled substance. But it's not anymore. Probably. This is the upshot of two rules the Drug Enforcement Administration unveiled in October... |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Drug Warning Labels: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Once a drug is approved, investors can't fall asleep and ignore FDA announcements about drugs. They come in different varieties, but warnings tend to be of the bad and ugly variety more often than the good. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Jeff Stark |
Hollywood kicks the habit In the scorching new film "Traffic," director Steven Soderbergh captures the hypocrisy -- and tragedy -- of the nation's unwinnable war on drugs... |
Reason
July 2009
Jacob Sullum |
DEA Tax Collectors Medical marijuana raids |
