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Miller, the editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, which discusses the hookah findings in its March issue, said he is concerned about students who think hookah smoke is less harmful than cigarette or marijuana smoke...

Author: By Elliot Ikheloa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studies Expose Health Hazards of Hookah Use | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

...drugs—suggested by some as a solution to high rates of abuse and imprisonment—has too many unforeseeable social consequences to be implementable, the justice system must change its attitude towards drug sentencing. There is little justification for imprisonment on charges related to marijuana, as legalized and strictly regulated marijuana laws in the Netherlands have shown to reduce both rates of drug use and imprisonment. Sentencing structures for other drug offenses should be reconsidered—a 60 percent recidivism rate among inmates shows that imprisonment is ineffective at reducing crime and drug use. Drug abuse...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Imprisonment Woes | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...renewable portfolio was stripped out of the bill at the behest of the Bush Administration.) Montana has the largest coal reserves in the state, but Schweitzer still believes that alternatives are the only long-term solution. "People believe that wind power is for hippies living on the mountaintop, smoking marijuana, and real power only comes from hydrocarbons," he says. "But this standard has already spurred $1 billion in investment in renewables in Montana. Green is good for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Washington Can Learn from Montana | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...He’s also has a different way of looking at things. Richardson supports the decriminalization of marijuana, and is more pro-gun than the other candidates. Democrats may not agree with him on every issue, but we know that he’s analyzed every issue and come to his own position carefully and thoughtfully...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Change Plus Experience: Governor Bill Richardson for President | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...Valentin Elizalde, one of the thousands of drug ballads or narco corridos that are played in cantinas and parties from the mountains of Mexico to the immigrant ghettos of Los Angeles. "There was a big shoot-out/With 14 bullet-filled bodies/And the American government,/took away the marijuana" go the lyrics, as tubas and accordions drone out the melody to the rhythm of a German polka. In November 2006, gunmen ambushed and killed Elizalde and took out his manager and driver while injuring his cousin outside a cockfighting ring in the border city of Reynosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is Killing Mexico's Musicians? | 12/24/2007 | See Source »

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