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Top 10 Marijuana Highlights From 2011

Rob Kampia | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Chris Christie, Lincoln Chafee, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Martin O'Malley, District of Columbia, Marijuana, Maryland, Barney Frank, Ron Paul, Richard Branson, Medical Marijuana, Kofi Annan, Barack Obama, Jack Markell, George Shultz, Christine Gregoire, Peter Shumlin, New Jersey, New Mexico, Richard Nixon, Rob Kampia, Maine, Drug Czar, Marijuana Policy Project, President Clinton, Politics News

The following list comprises the 10 most significant, positive developments relating to marijuana policy reform in the U.S. in 2011.

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We Need a New Drug Policy

Diane Dimond | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Diane Dimond?S Crime and Justice Column, Raids on Medicinal Marijuana Raids, George Shultz, Diane Dimond, Paul Volker, Richard Nixon, President Richard Nixon?S War on Drugs, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Kofi Annan, UN?S Report on Failed Global War on Drugs, Leap, President Barak Obama?S Drug Policy, Failure of the War on Drugs, Politics News

The day of total drug legalization will come -- just as it did with alcohol. The question is: how many more multiple billions of dollars will we spend before we finally see it's the logical way to go?

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Friday Talking Points [169] -- Weiner Roast

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.11.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Debate, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, War on Dancing, Leon Panetta, Drugs, DC Madam, Immigration, Obama, Democratic, Vitter, Sarah Palin, Gingrich, California, Republican, Green Card, Huckabee, Midotw, Mutant Earless Bunny, Park Police, John Edwards, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Moveon, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Helicopter, Trump, Anthony Weiner, Chris Christie, Lottery, Baseball, Panetta, House, Budget, Paul Revere, Alabama, Democrat, Congress, War on Drugs, Newt Gingrich, Rockettes, Prostitutes, Democrats, Barack Obama, George Shultz, Constitution, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Palin, Jefferson Memorial, Weiner, Little League, Immigrant, Friday Talking Points, Emails, Wiener, New Jersey One, David Vitter, Senate, Politics News

Having just gotten back from a trip abroad where the news was dominated by the story of a politician facing severe consequences for his sexual misconduct, I opened up the pages of the American news to find... well, pretty much the same thing.

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Has California's Reform Moment Arrived?

William Bradley | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Willie Brown, California Governor's Race, Meg Whitman, California, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Shultz, Jerry Brown, Nathan Gardels, Nicolas Berggruen, Dan Schnur, Maria Elena Durazo, Bob Hertzberg, Los Angeles News

Has California's big reform moment arrived? It sure seems as though it should have, but Jerry Brown only has half a budget deal. Even though the chronic crisis is still more glaring than before.

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Reagan the Abolitionist

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Shultz, Ronald Reagan, Inf Treaty, Start Treaty, Centennial, Nuclear Abolition, Nuclear Weapons, New Start Treaty, World Without Nuclear Weapons, Mikhail Gorbachev, Politics News

One of Ronald Reagan's most powerful and living legacies was his dream of a world free of nuclear weapons. It is worth remembering this upcoming sixth of February, the centennial of his birth.

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Obama, Arnold, Jerry, and the Big Green Dream

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Climate Change, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Renewable Energy, Cancun Climate Summit, Jerry Brown, George Shultz, California Climate Change, Jerry Brown Climate, Los Angeles News

The latest UN global climate summit is underway in Cancun with little progress in store, despite 2010 turning out to be perhaps the hottest year on record. That makes the moves underway in California even more significant.

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National Security Experts vs. Forces of Delay

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consensus for American Security, US Military, Politico, Nuclear Weapons, Richard Lugar, Madeleine Albright, George Shultz, Max Boot, Robert Kagan, New Start Treaty, Jon Kyl, Pat Buchanan, Norm Ornstein, Politics News

The New START treaty should be a no-brainer: it's a renewal of a treaty originally negotiated by Ronald Reagan and it will make America safer.

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The Terminator Targets Nukes, 'Idiots' Who Want Them

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Nuclear Weapons, Governator, George Shultz, Ballsy, Ronald Reagan, Moscow, John Barrasso, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gridlock, New Start Treaty, Republicans, Politics News

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) delivered a powerful endorsement of the New START treaty while mocking those who try to pump up their manhood with nuclear weapons.

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Man on a Mission: Billionaire Hedge-Fund Manager, Tom Steyer, on Why Californians Must Protect Their Landmark Energy Law at the Polls Next Week

Matthew Dakotah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AB 32, George Shultz, Tom Steyer, California Clean Energy, Prop 23, Clean Energy, No on Prop 23, Prop 23 California, California Energy, Green Energy, Poll, Electric Cars, Green News

Steyer is an unassuming, fist-pounding man of conviction who deftly defies the stereotype of ruthless financier. I sat down with him to debate the issues and hear his closing argument.

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Six Lessons Mr. Donilon Could Learn From Reagan's Six National Security Advisers

Jason Saltoun-Ebin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Shultz, Tom Donilon, Ronald Reagan, National Security Council, President Obama, Reagan Administration, National Security Adviser, Politics News

If the president and his chief of staff are old Irish buds, no amount of experience or competence is likely to persuade the boss to tell his chief of staff to change the way he does business.

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PBS Chief Defends Airing George Shultz Film

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paula Kerger, George Shultz, PBS George Shultz, Pbs, Media News

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — PBS chief Paula Kerger says she doesn't regret airing a documentary series last month on former Secretary of State Georg...

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Expendable Arnold: What's Ahead for Schwarzenegger?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

It seems clear that movies are in Schwarzenegger's future. But there's plenty of politics to come before he's done being governor next January, and plenty after as well.

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A New Movement to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Arsenal, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Henry Kissinger, Disarmament, Activism, War, United States, Wall Street Journal, Weapons, Activist, Barack Obama, Nuclear Threat, Chautauqua Institution, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, George Shultz, Nuclear Arsenals, Social Movements, Christian Leaders, Un, Security, Assumptions, Weaponry, Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Cold Warriors, World News

Nuclear disarmament is a job for faith -- and for the kind of social movements that faith at its best has always inspired.

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New Consensus on American Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Hagel, George Shultz, Military, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, New Start Treaty, American Security Project, Consensus for American Security, Bipartisanship, Richard Burt, Gary Hart, Politics News

In a hopeful sign of growing bipartisan support for nuclear reductions, former military commanders and national security officials announced their support today for quick approval of the New START treaty.

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A Strong Majority for New START

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

It's now down to politics. The only reason to oppose the New START treaty is political gamesmanship on the eve of elections to deny the administration a victory. This would sacrifice our national security for narrow, partisan gain.

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"Welcome to the Future": A Forward Looking Playlist for my High School Reunion

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Lehrer, Eels, Keith Urban, Steely Dan, Chris Isaak, Boston, Usher, The Script, Alice in Chains, Lady Antebellum, B.o.B, Beck, Counting Crows, Zac Brown Band, John D. Rockefeller, Weezer, She & Him, Diane Birch, Rogue Wave, My Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, The Loomis Chaffee School, Miranda Lambert, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Elvis Costello, Jamie Widdoes, The Bird and the Bee, Paul McCartney, Wilco, String Cheese Incident, Broken Bells, Justin Currie, Cornell, Satchel Paige, Sheryl Crow, Bruno Mars, George Shultz, The Grateful Dead, Taylor Swift, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Phoenix, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Ella Grasso, The Magnetic Fields, Dierks Bentley, Pure Prarie League, Windsor, The Black Keys, Brad Paisley, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Bruce Springsteen, Paramore, Entertainment News

When you're 40something, you're probably better off trying to live in the present tense and not in the past -- even at your high school reunion.

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The Start of a New Obama Narrative

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Sam Nunn, Nuclear Weapons, Henry Kissinger, Barack Obama, National Security, John Kerry, George Shultz, Obama Prague, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Tea Party, Richard Lugar, New Start Treaty, Dmitry Medvedev, World News

Nuclear issues will loom large over the next month. Most of it will be demonstrated by the broad, nonpartisan and global support for reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear Naivete

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Shultz, Defense Authorization Bill, President Obama, House of Representatives, Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons, New Start Treaty, John Bolton, Nuclear Security, Admiral Mike Mullen, Sam Nunn, Mike Turner, Hillary Clinton, Bill Perry, Nuclear Posture Review, Keith Payne, Politics News

Far-right conservatives posture as nuclear tough guys, but push a shockingly naive policy. Clinging to Cold War doctrines, they play politics with our nuclear weapons. It is a dangerous game that puts American security at risk.

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The Machinations of Meg Whitman: Behind Her Attempts To Eliminate Competition and Her Whopper About How Long She's Lived in California

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

The reality behind Meg Whitman, as we see from her attempts to avoid a primary contest and duck debates and the press, is much different than her facade.

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Cuba United Nations Vote Today: US Should Abstain

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Shultz, Susan Rice, Latin America, United Nations, Embargo, Brent Scowcroft, Israel, Cuba, Jim McGovern, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Increasing numbers of national security leaders of the likes of Brent Scowcroft and George Shultz have said that the US embargo of Cuba makes no sense and harms American interests.

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Former Sec. of State George Shultz: Quote Me - End the US-Cuba Embargo

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Shultz, Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Henry Kissinger, Cuba Travel Ban, Center for Democracy in the Americas, Sam Nunn, Cuba, William Perry, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

Former Reagan Administration Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State George Shultz thinks that the US embargo against Cuba should "simply be lifted."

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Reigniting America's Human Rights Mojo

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?

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Is Cap and Trade Already Corrupt?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blaise Zerega, Energy, fora.tv, George Shultz, Commonwealth Club, David O'reilly, Chevron, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Negative reactions to the proposed cap and trade system were voiced by Chevron CEO David O'Reilly and by former Secretary of State George Schultz.

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North Korea Nuclear Test Raises the Stakes on Nuclear Abolition

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobel Peace Laureates, George Shultz, North Korea Missile, North Korea Nuclear Program, No Nukes, Jonathan Schell, Nuclear Proliferation, YES! Magazine, Joe Copeland, Nukes, North Korea, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Obama Nuclear Weapons, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, World News

As the world comes to terms with the dangerous possibilities of a nuclear-armed North Korea and Iran, perhaps the obligations of the current nuclear power to work towards abolition will get the attention required for action.

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A New President and a New Generation Seek a Nuclear Weapons Free Future

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International, Bomb, Washington, William J Perry, Democrat, Evangelicals, Wall Street Journal, Evangelical, Weapons, Peace, Democrats, Movement, America, Barack Obama, Republican, Conservative, Sam Nunn, Non Proliferation Treaty, Bush Administration, Henry a Kissinger, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Barack, George Shultz, Liberal, Russia, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Nuclear Testing, Republicans, Conservatives, Justice, Young Evangelicals, Politics News

A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."

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