Levi Johnston, America’s number one non-condom wearing fool, may soon see his mother behind bars. She was arrested on six felony counts of msconduct concerning…
If I were president, I would immediately pardon just about every non-violent drug offender. So, I should probably be happy that Bush has pardoned a…
That’s right, downtown San Francisco, which features 66 Starbucks and 71 dispensaries, to which the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy has created a handy…
Aside from the obligatory excitement concerning the presidency:
Congratulations to California, which defeated a proposition requiring parental consent for minors seeking abortions.
Congratulations to South…
It is always amusing to note, in the broader context of a failing stock market and a dramatic presidential election, what passes for news on…
In some weeks patterns develop in the reporting at far-flung campuses, and seemingly everyone will be turning out a story on the same subject. This…
Fox News is reporting that four young children are being tested for HIV and Hepatitis C after one found a used heroin needle and poked…
From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
A Roman Catholic priest has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sold cocaine out of the St. John’s…
I consider myself relatively well-informed on what those darn kids are doing nowadays, but I hadn’t even heard of salvia until a few weeks ago,…
The Washington Post has a story about, among other things, the fact that the number of kids who can easily get their hands on prescription…
It hasn’t happened since the 1960s, when psychedelics went big and were summarily outlawed in much of the Western world, but apparently there’s been a…
The DEA’s raid of a medicinal marijuana cooperative in California last week at first seemed like nothing out of the ordinary. Ever since Californians passed…
Reason’s Radley Balko is almost a perfect model for how a mere journalist can have very real impact on the world he reports on. His…
My fellow Pushback bloggers seem to disagree with my argument that CNN’s article about Barney Frank’s new proposal partially decriminalizing marijuana possession should have at…
CNN reports:
The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying…
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