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A first-hand account of a trip through California’s “medical marijuana” system.
Archive for the ‘Drug Policy’ Category
November 1st, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
When it comes to scientific advice, New Labour acts like George W. Bush.
October 26th, 2009
Category: Crime Control, Drug Policy
New posts on medical marijuana at the American Constitution Society website and on crime control at the Volokh Conspiracy.
October 9th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
The California model of for-profit pot stores may not be long for this world.
September 29th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan, Drug Policy
James Wimberley’s plea to do something about the under-treatment of pain in Africa (and other parts of the developing world) addresses a problem that has received less attention than it deserves, partly because pain, unlike death, isn’t very easy to count. His first-choice solution is to buy opium in Afghanistan to make into opiates [...]
September 29th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan, Drug Policy
Sourcing morphine for the poor from Afghan opium: I retract some intemperate language but not the idea.
September 2nd, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Video of a panel on drug policy reform from Netroots Nation: Ryan Grim, Radley Balko, David Bratzer, Jonathan Caulkins. Oh, yeah, and some guy from UCLA who talks too much.
September 1st, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Sometimes I think that the legalizers and the drug warriors have a secret arms control treaty, in which each side renounces the use of factually and logically sound arugments.
August 23rd, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
In a sample of Canadians who had already failed on methadone, heroin seemed to work much better.
