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Alabama Immigration Law: 11th Circuit issues divided ruling on controversial law.
Seeded on Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:18 PM EDT (Slate)
Under the 11th Circuit’s ruling, Alabama schools will no longer be required to check the immigration status of students in public schools.
A Radical New Definition of Addiction Creates a Big Storm
Seeded on Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:06 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
ASAM's "new definition" of addiction is a lot less radical than this report suggests and does not necessarily have all the implications the author claims but it will be news to a lot of people who know nothing about addiction science.
Obama Is Asked To Defend His Administration's Opposition To Medical Cannabis — He Can't « SpeakEasy
Seeded on Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:17 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
"President Obama — someone who is use to speaking extemporaneously in public — could not articulate one single legitimate reason (nor could his former Press Secretary) why his administration believes in continuing the federal ban on marijuana, including the use of med …
"Crackhead PhD" to appear on syndicated radio show
Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:49 PM EDT
Author Peter Ferentzy, PhD will appear on KPFT Radio's syndicated show Cultural Baggage At: On Sunday July 3, 2011, Dr.
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Call Off the Global Drug War - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:05 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Pres. Jimmy Carter, in a NY Times op-ed, calls for an end to the War on Drugs.
The Many Myths of the Civil War «
Seeded on Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:12 AM EDT (University of Illinois)
University of Illinois historian Bruce Levine says that myths regarding the Civil War and its causes persist despite the evidence of history.
Why the Marijuana Renaissance Is Here to Stay | | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Jun 4, 2011 7:16 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Harvard psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon, in a speech delivered at the 2011 NORML Conference, recalled, "In 1967, because of my concern about the rapidly growing use of the dangerous drug marijuana, I began my studies of the scientific and medical literature with the goal of providi …
Interactive Tool: How Much Is Smoking Costing You?
Seeded on Thu May 12, 2011 7:29 PM EDT (MSN)
"This interactive tool calculates how much money you have spent on cigarettes in the past or how much you will spend on them in the future. When computing future costs, this calculator does not take into account inflation or the rising cost of cigarettes or the taxes on them.
Watery Grave, Murky Law
Seeded on Wed May 11, 2011 4:36 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"After Osama bin Laden’s corpse was slipped into the North Arabian Sea, the White House’s chief counterterrorism adviser declared that the United States had buried him 'in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices'." But it turns out that what was done ei …
West Wing briefing: Is Obama serious about immigration reform? - 44 - The Washington Post
Seeded on Tue May 3, 2011 7:18 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Perry Bacon Jr. notes that. "In a series of well-publicized meetings and speeches the last several weeks, the president has repeatedly touted his support of both the Dream Act and other measures to make it easier for people who are in the U.S.
Barton's Bunk: Religious Right 'Historian' Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America | People For the American Way
Seeded on Sun May 1, 2011 7:59 PM EDT (People for the American Way)
David Barton is a "fast-talking, self-promoting, self-taught, self-proclaimed historian who is miseducating millions of Americans about U.S.
Obama's drug control policy on autopilot
Seeded on Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:04 PM EDT (International Drug Policy Consortium)
"With over two years in office, the Obama administration has had time to begin to make its mark on the government’s domestic and international drug policies.
Maguffins 1 Obama 0
Seeded on Fri Apr 29, 2011 4:20 PM EDT (FOK News Channel)
"It is another reflection of our well-meaning but sometimes utterly tone-deaf President that he really dug up the long-form birth certificate – even after the previous one had been released, even after the Hawaii historians confirmed that 1961 newspaper birth announcemen …
Guantanamo a Legal and Moral Disaster
Seeded on Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:29 PM EDT (The New York Times)
In the words of the NY Times, the newest Wikileaks documents "describe the chaos, lawlessness and incompetence in his administration's system for deciding detainees' guilt or innocence and assessing whether they would be a threat if released." As a result of the Bush administra …
Drug Sentencing -- Facts versus Popular Fictions
Seeded on Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:24 PM EDT (British Medical Journal)
The British Medical Journal publishes an intelligent commentary by Jeremy Sare, former secretary to the UK's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and former head of drug legislation at the British Home Office.
"Birth Certificate" versus "Certificate of Live Birth"
Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:47 PM EDT
Donald Trump and various other "birthers" (as well as non-"birthers" like Pat Robertson) express concern that Pres. Obama has released copies of his "Certificate of Live Birth" and not his actual "birth certificate". Mr.
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Charter for an "Action Faction"
Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:10 PM EDT (peterferentzy.com)
Psychologist and ex-addict Peter Ferentzy has proposed a charter for an organization he calls an "Action Faction" to challenge the establishment view of addiction and its promotion of such ideas as that addicts must "hit bottom" before they can get better or that being totally "d …
Myth vs. Fact: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts
Seeded on Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:24 PM EDT (Center for American Progress)
Political commentators point to the fact that the "Obamacare" that Republicans are so opposed to is almost identical to the health insurance reforms that Gov. Mitt Romney supported and installed in his state while he was Governor of Massachusetts.
Dealing With Addiction
Seeded on Wed Apr 6, 2011 8:59 PM EDT (peterferentzy.com)
Peter Ferentzy, PhD, a Canadian social psychologist, has written an outstanding new book entitled Dealing With Addiction: Why the 20th Century Was Wrong. I have read a pre-publication copy and recommend it highly to anyone who is interested in learning about the addictions.
More teens smoking pot than cigarettes
Seeded on Tue Apr 5, 2011 12:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
The federal government's annual survey of high school senior shows that more than 21 percent of them had used marijuana in the past 30 days, while 19.2 percent had smoked cigarettes during the same period -- the first time marijuana use has surpassed cigarette use in the survey.
Murder City
Fri Apr 1, 2011 5:46 PM EDT
Charles Bowden (2010). Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields. New York: Nation Books.
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Peanut allergy stirs controversy at school
Seeded on Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:34 PM EDT (Reuters)
Parents are protesting against measures to protect a first grader with a peanut allegy. Protests exaggerate the measures being taken while the other side seems to be overstating the severity of risk to the child -- such allergies can and do kill but very rarely do.
Better Benefits, Better Health for Seniors
Seeded on Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:26 PM EDT (Welcome to the White House)
As part of its Better Benefits, Better Health Initiative, the White House has described the benefits senior citizens like myself are already able to receive under the new health insurance reform act.
Chernobyl's Lessons for Japan
Seeded on Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:21 PM EDT (CFR.org - Daily Analysis)
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, offers an even-handed analysis of what the Chernobyl disaster can tell us about the harm that may result from the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health
Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 6:19 PM EST (American Council on Science and Health)
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