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By Peter Stothard
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By Christie Thompson, ProPublica —
Many public health experts say the administration deserves credit for increasing access to drug treatment. But others say despite an increase in funding for rehab, the administration has continued to push programs and policies built to punish drug users.
Posted on May 12, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.
Posted on May 10, 2013
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A retired 29-year veteran of the Winnipeg Police Service told Vice magazine that he wants to see all drugs legalized and regulated by the government.
Posted on Apr 27, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Economist Michael Hudson attacks Obama’s proposed cuts. Also on the program: the fight to keep Monsanto from polluting Hawaii’s natural wonders, a college degree ain’t what it used to be, and a new movie documents the legal showdown over medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Connecticut’s tough new gun laws and a recently created PAC looks to support candidates based on one nonpolitical trait.
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a bold prediction by MSNBC’s president and the launch of a pro-marijuana super PAC.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Ted Cruz’s attempt to repeal Obamacare and why the debate on gay marriage may be over even before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a pair of cases on the issue this week.
Posted on Mar 24, 2013
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By David Sirota — An international body immersed in one drug (alcohol) yet telling governments to outlaw an objectively less harmful drug (marijuana) is biting comedy.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including California voters make an about-face on marijuana legalization and an Illinois lawmaker offers an interesting comparison on gun control.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the government’s pending legal action against S&P and Joe Scarborough becomes the latest conservative to smack down the NRA.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Many Dutch citizens are attempting to “de-baptize” themselves to protest Pope Benedict’s anti-gay marriage declarations; a national database of gun owners may have helped prevent the Newtown shooting; and although the media insist the president is giving in to the Republicans’ demands to make cuts to Social Security, Obama’s been trying to reduce it all along. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 28, 2012
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Dec 21, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a GOP contender for a top Cabinet post in the Obama administration and why Michigan Republicans should have taken a closer look at the right-to-work legislation they passed.
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Stephen Colbert’s response to a poll that shows South Carolina voters want him in the Senate and why the Koch brothers postponed a major meeting.
Posted on Dec 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including President Obama’s take on the Michigan “right to work” battle and the Republican National Committee’s attempt to figure out what went wrong in the 2012 election.
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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The Evergreen State began granting same-sex marriage licenses Thursday morning while crowds lit joints at a celebration beneath the Space Needle in Seattle.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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Adults will be able to legally smoke marijuana beginning Thursday in Washington state. However, officials there are concerned about the lack of guidelines from the Department of Justice given that the federal government still considers the drug illegal.
Posted on Dec 2, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including how federal authorities could soon have warrantless access to your private emails, and the latest ridiculous venture from the conservative who brought us “Unskewed Polls.”
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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By David Sirota — What’s next? Amid all the munchie-themed jokes from reporters, political elites and late-night comedians, this remains the overarching question after Coloradans voted overwhelmingly to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in the same way alcohol is already legalized, regulated and taxed.
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Barney Frank and Ron Paul’s request about new marijuana laws and a look at the most bizarre post-election freak outs of 2012.
Posted on Nov 14, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — This playlist sums up the winners and losers from the biggest political bash in the last four years.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Gay America’s best election yet; Robert Scheer on Obama’s second term; marijuana legalization; and Internet freedom.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Gay America’s best election yet; Robert Scheer on Obama’s second term; marijuana legalization; and Internet freedom.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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Voters in Colorado and Washington passed legislation Tuesday that effectively legalizes recreational marijuana use in those two states.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the surfacing of another potentially damaging Mitt Romney video, the latest election forecast and Bill Clinton mulls his election options.
Posted on Sep 27, 2012
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By David Sirota — Colorado is the frontline in the war on marijuana. Will voters trust that their beer-mogul-turned-governor is actually worried about health and children?
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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People who were diagnosed with cannabis dependence during their teenage and early adult years exhibited declines in IQ scores by their late 30s, according to researchers at Duke University.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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The battle between the city of Los Angeles and medical marijuana advocates is intensifying again after a group representing hundreds of pot shop owners and patients sued the city in an effort to overturn a ban on dispensaries.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban all medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. A fig leaf provision designed to honor California’s 16-year-old legalization of marijuana for medical use would allow patients and caregivers to grow a small amount of their own supply.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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Despite the public’s increased support for the legalization of medical marijuana, the Department of Justice has renewed its crackdown, this time targeting the landlords of dispensaries under laws allowing the feds to seize the assets of traffickers.
Posted on Jun 15, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an endorsement from Rand Paul (above), Obama’s “gift” to Republicans and Jon Stewart’s take on efforts in New York to criminalize soda and decriminalize pot.
Posted on Jun 8, 2012
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In response to an inflated arrest rate under the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the police chief have endorsed legislation put forward by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would ease the penalty for possessing small amounts of marijuana in public.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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Autopsy results released Thursday revealed that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system at the time he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., in February.
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After mischaracterizing a law governing medical marijuana distribution, the president who refused to prosecute those who led the U.S. into an indefinite war on terror told a Rolling Stone interviewer last month that he couldn’t ask the Justice Department to “turn the other way” when it comes to potential violations of medical marijuana use.
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Advocate Editor in Chief Matthew Breen explains the magazine’s surprising picks. Also: Pot smoke doesn’t hurt your lungs; Robert Scheer on the election, and Occupy the Courts.
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Advocate Editor in Chief Matthew Breen explains the magazine’s surprising picks. Also: Pot smoke doesn’t hurt your lungs; Robert Scheer on the election, and Occupy the Courts.
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Before you rush out and follow Snoop Dogg’s lead, you might read the fine print about a new NIH-funded study about moderate long-term marijuana use and its effects (or lack thereof) on lung function. On the other hand, the study makes a strong case for giving up cigarettes and rolling a joint.
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Snoop Dogg would like to speak to President Obama on behalf of a friend of his, and her name is Mary Jane. The pot-friendly rapper, né Calvin Broadus, also has visualized how this meeting would ideally take place at the White House.
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AP / Ric Francis
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By Bill Boyarsky — The U.S. attorneys who have declared war on California’s medical marijuana industry remind me of the prohibition agents in the HBO show “Boardwalk Empire.”
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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After a 17-month investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal, state and local authorities cracked down on a vast drug-smuggling network in Arizona that officials tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, making 76 arrests in three separate raids.
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With the Obama administration threatening to seize medicinal marijuana dispensaries in the state, the California Medical Association voted Friday to support the decriminalization of marijuana. The association, the state’s largest physician organization, originally opposed California’s 15-year-old medical marijuana initiative. (more)
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By David Sirota — In the firmament of celebrated Americana, there is Mom, apple pie, football and beer—but there most certainly is not marijuana.
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This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the politics of global warming; the ever more complicated fight to legalize marijuana; Robert Scheer’s update on the debt; the director of the new documentary “Honest Man”; and the Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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