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we should probably just go ahead and actually cut defense spending, then at least the nation's copy-editors would be writing accurate headlines...,
2009-04-07 14:54:04
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bargain hunting, or bargainier waiting...,
2009-04-08 08:31:09
and we got high:
Ta-Nahisi Coates on some kerfluffle about the drug war or other, trying to argue with facts what would be more convincing to conservatives by analogy; and Sci-Am on preliminary results from Portugal's decriminalization of hard narcotics. I mean, they decriminalized fucking everything:
it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections.
Five years later, the number of deaths from street drug overdoses dropped from around 400 to 290 annually, and the number of new HIV cases caused by using dirty needles to inject heroin, cocaine and other illegal substances plummeted from nearly 1,400 in 2000 to about 400 in 2006
No explosion in use - though, why should we care if there was? Some of those are a good time.
:: posted by buermann @ 2009-04-07 15:38:10 CST |
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