The Lippard Blog

Personal possession of any drug decriminalized: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Baltic states, some German states and Swiss cantons...

After at least two prior attempts in 2006 and 2008 , Mexico has decriminalized the personal possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocai...

Anthony Watts, a radio meteorologist who has collected evidence of badly sited weather stations to argue that climate change data is incorr...

Via Pharyngula , a video rebuttal to a recent Bill O'Reilly show claim that Amsterdam's drug policies are a failure that has led it ...

From the Philadelphia Daily News : ON A SWELTERING July afternoon in 2007, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his narcotics squad members raided an ...

Portugal decriminalized drugs in 2001, and Glenn Greenwald discusses the evidence that he says shows it has been "an unquestionable su...

Today's Overcompensating makes a timely proposal. Just as the repeal of Prohibition during the Great Depression helped economic recove...

At The Agitator blog, Radley Balko writes what Michael Phelps should have said when a photograph of him taking a bong hit was published in a...

Radley Balko, guest-blogging at Dispatches from the Culture Wars , describes three police officers, asking whether each has engaged in egreg...

Via the Reason blog : The 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Martinez-Fuerte established an exception to the Fourth Amendment, al...

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has sent a proposal to Congress to decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetami...

In another amusing unintended consequence of the war on drugs, it turns out that the pharmaceuticals most likely to get disposed of into cit...

Radley Balko at The Agitator replies to Jennifer Rubin at Commentary about why the Washington Post's coverage of Cindy McCain's add...

The Gulfstream II jet that crashed in Mexico last year with 3.7 tons of cocaine on board was frequently used by the CIA to fly terror suspec...

Ed Brayton gives a summary of Radley Balko's list of tough questions for the candidates . It's a pity that our mass media is unlike...

There's an interesting article in the July 23, 2008 The New Yorker by David Samuels, "Dr. Kush: How medical marijuana is transform...

The New York Times reported Monday about Mexican pet shops selling pentobarbital , which is being purchased by international visitors for e...

Tredell County deputies have confiscated 175 marijuana plants from a barn on Lippard Farm Road in Statesville, NC. No arrests have been ma...

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Well, apart from those in the illegal drug business themselves, who benefit from the lack of legal competition, it looks like the big winner...