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What if marijuana was legal? What would our world be like? Would we all be drugged-out pot smokers on the road to hard drugs and death? No, but if you really believe that, maybe you should read on. (And if you don't, you're welcome to continue also). A world where marijuana is legal is not the dark and dreary world of crime and rampant drug use that many imagine it to be. Actually, that world is the America we live in now, and the War on Drugs is doing nothing to abate it. In a world where marijuana is legal ...

The Foolish Presidential Predictor Plus, the NOW 50 Passes Us By David Gardner February 22, 2000 Hey, how 'bout that McCain running his open campaign with the media, eh? How 'bout that Bush winning South Carolina? Hey, how 'bout that Bradley bringing an academic flair to American politics? Hey, how 'bout that Gore winning pretty much every primary anyway. Hey, how 'bout those -- wait, excuse me... yawwwwwwwn -- politics? Those primaries? How 'bout those media headlines about -- uuuuuhhh, hold on, yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwn -- those politics and primaries? Wouldn't you just love to spend this evening reading a Rule ...

Drug Czar: Traffickers Moving Back to Caribbean February 10, 2000 12:46 pm EST By Michael Christie MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's drug cartels are switching their smuggling routes back through the Caribbean as Mexico tightens the screws in the Pacific, the U.S. anti-drug czar said. The White House's chief anti-drug policymaker, Barry McCaffrey, who ends a two-day tour of Mexico on Thursday, told U.S. reporters that Panama in particular faced a full-scale assault from narcotics traffickers since last December's handover of the Panama Canal. "They're switching back. There's a lot more now showing up in the Haiti, Dom Rep ...