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	<title><![CDATA[Marijuana Blues: If All Americans Had Phelps' Press Experience, The Drug War Would Be Over]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/marijuana-blues-if-all-am_b_163424.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Let's try a thought experiment. Imagine that there was a substance that on one given day caused the faces of anyone who had ever smoked marijuana to turn blue for a few hours. At least 40% of Americans over 12 would have a blue face that day (that's the proportion willing to admit it anonymously to government interviewers, the real proportion may well be higher).</p>

<p>Maybe, just maybe, we'd realize how stupid the war on drugs is.</p>

<p>Imagine how the economy would...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-03T08:52:00-05:00</date_published>
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