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“I can buy a firearm, but I can’t get assistance to buy a sandwich”

July 21, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Crime/Violence, Food, Missouri region, Poverty, Prison

In a move that demonstrates a small—and too rare—step toward common sense in lawmaking, Missouri has rescinded [mostly] an 18-year-old law that banned people

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The U.S. war on drugs: ineffective, bloated, corrupt

May 15, 2012 Madonna Gauding Crime/Violence, Foreign Policy, Obama, Police 2 comments

The global war on drugs launched during U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1969-1974 administration has been an abysmal failure, and all nations should immediately de-criminalize

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Benzos: more dangerous than the conditions they treat?

September 14, 2011 Mike Davis Consumer issues, Health care 18 comments

Benzodiazepines may be the most dangerous drugs in the world. Benzos, as they’re commonly called, were introduced as anti-seizure medications in the mid-1970s. One

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