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Drug War Chronicle Book Review: "Marijuana Is Safer -- So Why Are Driving People to Drink?" by Paul Armentano, Steve Fox, and Mason Tvert (2009, Chelsea Green Publishers, 209 pp., $14.95 PB) | Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:41 AM EDT ()

Review of the book "Marijuana is Safer. So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?". A compelling argument based in the risks and statistics behind alcohol addiction as opposed to pot smokers.

health, medical-marijuana, leagalize

Compassionate Cannabis Alliance - Opposition to medical cannabis unethical

Seeded on Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:38 AM EDT (Compassionate Cannabis Alliance)

Why opposition to medical cannabis may be unethical.

health, marijuana, medical-marijuana, cannabis, compassionate

Georgia Lawmaker Calls For Caning, Executing Marijuana Offenders | NORML Blog

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:09 PM EDT (Marijuana Law Reform - NORML)

I can't believe a person in government would say such asinine things in an email that he must have known would become public. It's time to turn up the heat on lawmakers. Tommy Benton, Georgia, 31st district" "I am opposed to the legalization of marijuana.

politics, health-care, marijuana, medical-marijuana, legalization, poitics

A Special Report: Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony? Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:46 PM EDT (Dvorak Uncensored)

Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?

politics, government, obama, barack-obama, kundra, vivek-kundra, chief-informaton-officer

Marijuana's Impact On Brain Function "Minimal", New Study Says | NORML Blog

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:07 PM EDT (Marijuana Law Reform - NORML)

Why is all the decent research done overseas? Doesn't America have it's own researchers? An international team of investigators from the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Australia, and Switzerland conducted a systematic review of the effects of cannabis on brain structure and funct …

health, neurology, legalization, marijuana-medical-marijuana

Drug Czar's Correction Still Falls Short - MPP Blog

Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:51 PM EDT (blog.mpp.org)

Gil Kerlikowske once again has stuck his foot in his mouth. In this case, too little too late. It makes me wonder how a man that is supposed to educated can fall for government propaganda and foster the spreading of it.

politics, marijuana, medical-marijuana, drug-war, kerlikowske, medical-mj

Obama says economy has stabilized - The Elkhart Project- msnbc.com

Seeded on Wed Aug 5, 2009 10:40 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Obama says economy is stabilizing and relief will finally trickle down to the common person. Uh huh. I voted for Barry. I won't make that mistake again. Neither should the rest of America.

economy, politics, obama, stimulus

Report: Apple Tried to Silence Owner of Exploding iPod With Gagging Order - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 5:23 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

It seems to me like Apple has something to hide. Maybe an exploding iPod has to kill someone before they will take notice. You never hear about the Zune or Sansa players exploding.

business, apple, ipod, exploding

Turkey Building Implosion

Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 5:17 PM EDT (mahalo.com)

Ooops. This is what happens when you let the inattentive play with explosives.

turkey, demolition, odd, odd-news, dangerous, implosion

Deaths from Marijuana v. 17 FDA-Approved Drugs - Medical Marijuana - ProCon.org

Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:04 PM EDT ()

A statistical gathering of information listing the number of fatalities caused medical marijuana as opposed to 17 approved medications.

health, political, medical-marijuana, medical-mj

Driven to drink by marijuana laws?

Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:54 AM EDT (Reuters)

Are people drinking more because the marijuana laws prevent them from toking? This is a common sense question. We live in a society where alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. This article describes one of the reasons for decriminalization, if not outright legalization.

health, marijuana, legalization, decriminalzation, medical-mj

NYT: Will intelligent machines outsmart us? - msnbc.com

Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:37 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Could an autonomous machine become smarter than the designer? There are machines out there that are extremely intelligent and can learn. Is there a danger to turning over so many things to educated machines? Some computer scientists think so.

technology, artificial-intelligence, ai, computer-science