I know that the war on drugs doesn’t get much press anymore. I suppose this could be due to shifting priorities in these post-9/11 times, but I often suspect that this lack of interest can also be attributed to the open secret — prohibitionists do not even want to acknowledge it, let alone discuss or [...]

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Sure, the Bible says, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (Exodus 20:13, KJV), but the Good Book also says, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23, KJV) and “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men [...]

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On the Monday, August 23, 2005 edition of “The 700 Club,” Reverend Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition who was also a 1988 candidate for the Republican nomination for president, said that Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, would make his nation “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the [...]

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In an August 5, 2005, article for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, columnist Joel Connely quoted D.E.A. administrator Karen Tandy on the arrest of Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery:
“Today’s arrest of Mark (sic) Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not [...]

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Congratulations to Blogcritics.org upon reaching the 10 million unique visitors mark, just before their third anniversary (August 12, 2005).
For those not familiar with Blogcritics.org, whose tagline is, “A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics,” it is a large group blog (1058 authors) that is [...]

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