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JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?
54 years, 11 months ago

JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?

Wired  

On Wednesday, a WIRED exclusive revealed that one of JD Vance’s financial policy advisers has posted a lot on Reddit about illicit substances. Given Vance’s hard stance on drugs, WIRED’s Tim Marchman and Makena Kelly join Leah to discuss why it matters that a member of his staff seems to have been using them. Mentioned this week: JD Vance Adviser …

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What exactly is Prop. 47? And how could California voters change it this year?
4 months, 1 week ago

What exactly is Prop. 47? And how could California voters change it this year?

LA Times  

An inmate leans out the bars of his cell at the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. Proposition 47 reclassified some felony crimes and made it so individuals who commit certain nonviolent drug and property crimes, including shoplifting where merchandise under $950 was stolen and simple drug possession, would be sentenced on misdemeanor charges instead of felony charges. But …

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Soulja Slim: New Orleans’ hottest rapper died 20 years ago. His murder still isn’t solved.
6 months ago

Soulja Slim: New Orleans’ hottest rapper died 20 years ago. His murder still isn’t solved.

Slate  

In New Orleans last November, between two new apartment buildings where the Magnolia public housing development once stood, paradegoers lined up to take photos with a life-size cutout of the rapper Soulja Slim. DJ Wild Wayne, a key promoter of New Orleans hip-hop, told ethnomusicologist Holly Hobbs that Slim’s exploits in the street and on the mic earned him “folk …

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Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi: ‘I went on this night out that lasted 17 years’
8 months ago

Fat White Family’s Lias Saoudi: ‘I went on this night out that lasted 17 years’

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I’m thinking of maybe quitting the band, quitting music …

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Oregon proves decriminalising hard drugs is not the answer
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Oregon proves decriminalising hard drugs is not the answer

Dutch News  

What is Amsterdam’s mayor smoking? At a conference on 26 January, Halsema signed and promoted a ‘health-focused manifesto’ calling for decriminalising and regulating hard drugs. Much like what this manifesto claims, Measure 110 advocates argued it would reduce drug-related crime, help out the justice system, get addicts the help they need, and improve ‘quality of life’ in cities like my …

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Oregon proves decriminalising hard drugs is not the answer
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Oregon proves decriminalising hard drugs is not the answer

Dutch News  

What is Amsterdam’s mayor smoking? At a conference on 26 January, Halsema signed and promoted a ‘health-focused manifesto’ calling for decriminalising and regulating hard drugs. Much like what this manifesto claims, Measure 110 advocates argued it would reduce drug-related crime, help out the justice system, get addicts the help they need, and improve ‘quality of life’ in cities like my …

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Utrecht temporarily bans hard drug use in public space
1 year, 4 months ago

Utrecht temporarily bans hard drug use in public space

NL Times  

Starting today, Utrecht has temporarily banned the use of hard drugs in public space. In mid-June, the city council approved a proposal by Mayor Sharon Dijksma to ban the use of hard drugs in public spaces through an amendment to the General Local Bye-Law. “The ban on hard drug use has been in effect for several years, and the municipalities …

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The complicated — and dangerous — economics of Mexican fentanyl
1 year, 10 months ago

The complicated — and dangerous — economics of Mexican fentanyl

LA Times  

For decades, Mexican cartels have made big money trafficking drugs. “In 2015, they changed the law to make it a little easier in theory, but it seems like doctors are still relatively reluctant to prescribe.” But even if prescribed oxycodone is difficult to come by, as Shover pointed out, “You don’t need a prescription to make a fentanyl fake.” Aside …

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Canadian province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs including cocaine, heroin
1 year, 10 months ago

Canadian province experiments with decriminalising hard drugs including cocaine, heroin

Firstpost  

Ottawa: A Canadian province on Tuesday decriminalised the possession of small amounts of cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and other hard drugs in a radical policy shift to address an opioid overdose crisis that has killed thousands. “The effects of this public health crisis have devastated communities across British Columbia and across Canada,” she said. British Columbia’s chief public health officer Bonnie …

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'It'd be a shot heard round the world': Youngkin says Drazan can repeat his blue-state win in Oregon
2 years, 2 months ago

'It'd be a shot heard round the world': Youngkin says Drazan can repeat his blue-state win in Oregon

Daily Mail  

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin campaigned in Oregon on Tuesday evening, as Republicans step up their efforts to win over a state that has not elected a GOP governor since 1982. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin joined Christin Drazan on stage in Aurora, Oregon, on Tuesday as Republicans try to turn the liberal state red for the first time in 40 years …

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Portland's open-air drug markets and homeless encampments turn Oregon election upside down
2 years, 2 months ago

Portland's open-air drug markets and homeless encampments turn Oregon election upside down

Daily Mail  

When President Joe Biden flew into Oregon to try to shore up his party's nominee for governor he would not have had far to look to see the problem. She moves slowly, looking like a living statue Street sleepers dot the Pearl District, known for its fancy restaurants and shops but which is hit hardest by the problems Trash collects …

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Amsterdam warns shopkeepers not to sell products for hard drugs
3 years ago

Amsterdam warns shopkeepers not to sell products for hard drugs

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council has written to 250 city centre shopkeepers warning them not to sell products which can be used to process or package hard drugs, the Parool reported at the weekend. The letter warns shops that officials will take a more intensive approach to the sale of drugs related products, including measuring scales, presses, packaging materials and substances to …

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CDA wants to end tolerance of hard drug possession by individuals
3 years, 1 month ago

CDA wants to end tolerance of hard drug possession by individuals

NL Times  

The CDA argues for stopping the tolerance of "user amounts" of hard drugs like ecstasy in a new vision on the Dutch approach to drugs. Although hard drugs are officially banned, one ecstasy pill, for example, is considered possession for personal use and usually tolerated by the authorities. The CDA states that having five ecstasy pills in your pocket is …

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Oregon leads the way in decriminalizing hard drugs
4 years, 1 month ago

Oregon leads the way in decriminalizing hard drugs

Associated Press  

SALEM, Ore. — In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offenses, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other hard drugs. “Today’s victory is a landmark declaration that the time has come to stop criminalizing people for drug use,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of …

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Oregon 1st in US to soften on hard drugs, ‘magic’ mushrooms
4 years, 1 month ago

Oregon 1st in US to soften on hard drugs, ‘magic’ mushrooms

Associated Press  

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon became the first state to decriminalize hard drugs like heroin and methamphetamine and to legalize therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms on Tuesday, with two ballot measures passing by large margins. “Today’s victory is a landmark declaration that the time has come to stop criminalizing people for drug use,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug …

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What Kangana Ranaut has been tweeting: Drug test for Bollywood to slamming Mumbai Police
4 years, 3 months ago

What Kangana Ranaut has been tweeting: Drug test for Bollywood to slamming Mumbai Police

India Today  

Kangana Ranaut, on August 26, the day the Enforcement Directorate wrote to the Narcotics Control Bureau to probe the drug conspiracy angle in the Sushant Singh Rajput, said that many A-listers of the film industry will be jailed if the NCB probes the case. SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT DEATH CASE: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW Here's a look at what Kangana …

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