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Opinion
What a Week for Drug Policy Reform!
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—August 15, 2013. Received the note below today from Ethan Nadelmann, the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) outlining all the groundbreaking events that occurred this week in the drug policy reform movement. In addition to the events outlined by Ethan, there were a couple of other notable[Read More…]
Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Happiness, New Study Finds
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2013. Facebook helps people feel connected, but it doesn’t necessarily make them happier, a new study shows. Facebook use actually predicts declines in a user’s well-being, according to a University of Michigan study that is the first known published research examining Facebook influence on happiness and satisfaction.[Read More…]
Encryption is Less Secure Than We Thought
For 65 years, most information-theoretic analyses of cryptographic systems have made a mathematical assumption that turns out to be wrong CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 15, 2013. Information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication and data compression — also put cryptography on a secure mathematical foundation. Since 1948, when the[Read More…]
Lawsuit Alleges that State Farm Stacks Illinois Court Against Individuals
New Report Outlines How to Limit the Influence of Corporate Campaign Cash on the Illinois Justice System Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 14, 2013. News dropped last week that Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier could face questions under oath about his vote to overturn a $1 billion verdict against State Farm after[Read More…]
Study: Passage of Medical Marijuana Laws Associated With Reduced Incidences of Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 14, 2013. By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The passage of medical cannabis laws is associated with a reduction in the public’s consumption of alcohol and with fewer incidences of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, according to data published in the Journal of Law and Economics. Investigators at Montana State[Read More…]
New York City Comptroller Releases Report Detailing the Financial and Human Costs of Marijuana Prohibition
Report Calls for the Taxation and Regulation of Marijuana for Adults; Advocates Demand a Comprehensive Overhaul of New York’s Racially Biased and Broken Marijuana Policies NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013. Today, New York City Comptroller John Liu announced the release of a report calling for a system to tax and regulate[Read More…]
CDC State Data Shows High Costs Due to Excessive Alcohol Use
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 13, 2013. Excessive alcohol use causes a large economic burden to states and the District of Columbia, according to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Excessive alcohol use cost states and D.C. a median of $2.9 billion in 2006, ranging from $420[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: Attorney General Eric Holder Issues Major Sentencing Changes, Begins to Question War on Drugs
Bi-partisan Support Grows In Congress for Overhauling U.S. Drug Laws SAN FRANCISCO–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. In a speech to the American Bar Association today Attorney General Eric Holder announced major federal sentencing changes, including dropping the use of mandatory minimum sentencing in certain drug cases, expediting the release of certain nonviolent[Read More…]
ACLU: Stop and Frisk Found Unconstitutional
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 12, 2013. Today in Floyd v. City of New York, a federal judge ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices are unconstitutional. Ezekiel Edwards, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Criminal Law Reform Project, said, “The ACLU celebrates today’s decision by Federal Justice Shira Scheindlin[Read More…]
