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A major preoccupation of mine in working on this blog has to do with the marketing of drug policy reform as a concept. One thing I keep wringing my hands over is the term "harm reduction" as a description of a health-oriented approach.

Court Ruling Puts Focus on Image Copyright Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation is an American judiciary case linking a professional shutterbug and a search engine. While the case was moving forward, Arriba Soft morphed into Sorceron, the developer and manager of Ditto.com,.

The drug Renagel is at the center of an interesting regulatory controversy right now. A doctor filed a petition with the FDA on May 3 arguing that Renagel should be de-approved or slapped with a drug Renagel " warning because it is.

Law Enforcement Took More Through Asset Forfeiture Than Burglars Took Last Year   Over the course of 2014, more stuff was taken from citizens of the United States by law enforcement officers than by burglars. These takings occurred as part of civil.

I wrote a post not a free-for-all: it's regulation. It's regulation via the same powerful policy tools that we already use to control the manufacture and sale of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and recreational commodities like tobacco. One thing I had meant.

A shooting and crash incident on the Las Vegas Strip resulted in the death of three people in 2013. Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, the 29 year old man convicted in relation to this crime was sentenced to death today, as the judge.

You've probably seen those weirdly compelling commercials for the Blendtec blender -- the ones in which they apply the question "will it blend?" to all manner of household objects and usually conclude that, yes, the object will indeed blend inside these very.

UCLA Public Policy Prof Mark Kleiman has a post up on his blog about a study describing the ability of psilocybin mushrooms to produce "mystical" experiences. My only concern with the post is the way Prof. Kleiman characterizes the law around this.

Federal Sentencing Guidelines Contributing to Mass Incarceration Defendants who are charged with a federal crime will generally be facing much harsher penalties, with lengthier jail sentences, compared with a defendant who is facing similar criminal charges on the state level.  One recent.

Constitutional protections are supposed to ensure that no defendant is forced to submit to a search without a warrant, except in exigent circumstances.  Unfortunately, drunk driving defendants nationwide are effectively being forced to submit to warrantless searches. The U.S. Supreme Court is.