Want to End the Drug War? Regulate Pot.

America passed a little-noted milestone in 2009 as drug overdoses outnumbered traffic fatalities for the first time ever to become the primary cause of accidental death . The cause? It wasn’t cocaine or heroin or some terrifying new criminal import. The doubling in drug related deaths over the …

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Written by Chris Ladd on Monday October 31, 2011

Dealing Weed Beats Cutting Grass

Picture a drug dealer in your mind. What does he look like? Whatever the image is, it's probably not going to be a young white male wearing this summer's latest footwear, and an untucked "secret wash button-down Coral tattersall" shirt from J. Crew. Doubtful, too, your imagination pictures him as …

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Written by Daniel Alexandre Portoraro on Saturday August 27, 2011