Category Archives: Contemporary

On the life-saving effects of marijuana (laws)

Evolutionary Psychology Blog: “[L]egalization [for medical purposes] is associated with a nearly 9 percent decrease in traffic fatalities, most likely to due to its impact on alcohol consumption.”

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Google’s Dead Sea Scrolls project

Wired: Cloudline: “In bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls into the cloud via an interface so user-friendly that even a humanities professor can navigate it, Google has once again played a part in something wonderful for the world. .… Even ambitious … Continue reading

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The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky

Chomsky: Chomsky concludes the main purposes of the War on Drugs are incarceration of the unemployed class (mainly blacks and Hispanics) and an excuse for counterinsugency operations in foreign countries.

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Does Marijuana Make You Stupid? [No]

Wired.com: “[T]he amount of pot consumed had no measurable impact on cognitive performance. The sole exception was performance on a test of short-term verbal memory, in which “current heavy users” performed slightly worse than former users. The researchers conclude that, … Continue reading

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Scientists want to dig up Shakespeare to find out if he smoked weed

The Raw Story: “Recently uncovered evidence suggests that William Shakespeare used marijuana, and now a team of paleontologists want to dig him up to prove it.”

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“Marijuana”: A 1968 U.S. government film

Starring a spaced-out Sonny Bono

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Drug war failed, legalize marijuana

Russian Times: “A report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy concluded the global war on drugs has been an abysmal failure and that governments should consider legalizing marijuana and other controlled substances. The commission, made up of experts, former … Continue reading

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Website where you can buy “any drug imaginable”

Wired.com: “Silk Road, a digital black market that sits just below most internet users’ purview, does resemble something from a cyberpunk novel. Through a combination of anonymity technology and a sophisticated user-feedback system, Silk Road makes buying and selling illegal … Continue reading

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Life magazine cover, 31 October 1969

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Why do you think they call it dope?

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