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"Marijuana Nation: The New War Over Weed"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the name given to this new CBSNews.com "special report on the evolving debate over marijuana legalization in the United States." Here are the titles and links to some of the new pieces in the series (including one with a Half-Blood Prince tie-in just in time for the movie's openning): High Stakes: A Call to Legalize Marijuana Poll: 41 Percent Support Pot Legalization America's Love-Hate History with Pot Inside Holland's "Half Baked" Pot Policy Pot No Longer Focus of Anti-Drug Campaigns Harry Potter Star Could Face 14 Years For Growing Weed Of course, readers are welcomed and encouraged to attempt clever Harry Potter jokes or references in light of this last item.  For the record, I always had a suspicion that the Potter version of Mandrake was a variation on the wicked weed: that plant helped "loosen up" those who had been petrified in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).