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Dogma is an ancient Greek word that originally meant opinion until it was repurposed in 1534 to be an authoritarian mandate with legal consequences for anyone questioning it. It was the same year the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church. In the Reformation, criticizing dogma became heresy. Rejecting it altogether could lead to lethal penalties.
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The anti-marijuana movement is a major obstacle to ending the drug wars that have raged across continents for over fifteen centuries. Beginning in 5th century North Africa, religious factions targeted users of illicit substances in much the way prohibitionists do today. Drug users were scapegoated for social problems unrelated to their drug use while cannabis consumption itse...
American drug treatment programs specializing in cannabis use disorder (CUD) achieve long term marijuana abstinence rates of only 14-to-22 percent. Opioid addictions treated using buprenorphine have a href="ht...
As someone who spent many years as a drug policy reporter, I am struck by some uncomfortable parallels between old-style marijuana enforcement and Trump’s over-the-top immigration enforcement.
Polls show that people overwhelmingly support deporting immigrant criminals and gang members, but that they overwhelmingly oppose deporting people who have lived here for many ye...
The holy grail of industries catering to marijuana drug enforcement is to create a workable marijuana breathalyzer so THC detection is as simple as detecting alcohol use. There are problems with the venture.
Alcohol and cannabis are two distinctly different substances. Alcohol can be very quickly detected as an evaporated gas using a cheap device, while THC is detecta...
