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...demand makes an easily grown weed literally worth its weight in gold. The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who’ve built careers on confusing drug prohibition’s collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant. The big losers in this battle are the taxpayers who have been deluded into believing big government is the appropriate response to non-traditional consensual vices. ROBERT SHARPE Arlington, Va. October 10, 2006 The writer is a policy analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy...
...with sadness how relaxed such meetings used to be, and how tense and paranoid, even Soviet, they've become. We didn't talk so much as whisper, all the while eyeing the felt-covered furniture around us, half expecting a bearded agent to pop out from behind a fake plant, or the waiter to slip a listening device under the sugar bowl. Instead of discussing how Iran could avoid a nuclear crisis with the West, we talked about how we could avoid being labeled enemies of the state. Who cares about uranium enrichment when you spend your days and nights...
...dirty water. “I drink it every day.” While Corda is perhaps a biased source, he claims that he’s not the only one who enjoys the spigot’s glory. Corda says that after the water authority built its own plant in Cambridge in 1998, they received rave reviews from customers. “For the first time, we got a handful of calls from people saying that the water tasted much better now that we’re back on our own water.” And to boot...
...village leaders signed an agreement banning the clearing of any more forests in their districts. Since then, "the water is much cleaner and not yellow like before," says Muhib Budin, a local leader. As part of the project, Budin received 12,000 rubber-tree saplings from FFI to plant as an income substitute for the village. Hashimi, an ex-logger who before the tsunami cut down more than 10 trees a month to satisfy demand for Aceh's precious seumantok wood, is also thinking long term. "If we replant the trees by the lake," he says, "maybe we could increase...
...earned him the Chinese government's ire when the bank pulled out in 1999. Tsering Dorje was detained, forced to sign a confession that he was working against his country and warned away from further activism. In the years that followed, he taught villagers how to raise seedlings and plant trees, and planned to launch an environment-themed Tibetan-language newspaper?only to have the authorities reject his approval requests. "If I didn't have support from the government, I knew I couldn't make a difference," he says. "So I had to leave." Tsering Dorje crossed Tibet's border...