America's Drug Policy Stupidity

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  GOP Support for Weed Might Be Killed By One Man (And All of His Money)

  The Daily Beast - John L. Smith

  Nevada Republicans want legal weed for very conservative reasons. But one conservative with Vegas ties, Sheldon Adelson, is throwing as much money at …

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  Cory Booker Explains How The Drug War Hurts Law Enforcement

  huffingtonpost.com - Mollie Reilly

  In a Tuesday interview with HuffPost Live, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) discussed how the high cost of the war on drugs prevents law enforcement …

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  Elder Statesmen Declare a War on the 'War on Drugs'

  The Atlantic - Conor Friedersdorf

  What took them so long? A violent organization that includes recruits with Western passports uses terrorist tactics—beheading journalists, for example—as it seizes swaths of territory. That describes ISIS, a radical Sunni militia operating in Iraq and Syria. But it also describes the transnational …

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  Pablo Escobar's Right-Hand Man Explains Why The Drug War Is Unwinnable

  Business Insider - Michael B Kelley

  Editor's note 8/27/14: On Tuesday, Jhon "Popeye" Velásquez walked free from from the Combita high-security prison in central Colombia after completing 22 years of a 30-year sentence for murder. In a five-part series about lessons learned from the failed war on drugs, Jochen-Martin Gutsch and Juan …

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  House Tells DEA To Leave State Hemp Programs Alone

  huffingtonpost.com - Matt Ferner

  WASHINGTON -- House members early Friday blocked the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to interfere in state-legal industrial hemp …