The New York Times, September 17, 2011 by Trey Bundy
http://nyti.ms/re4xPU
“Do you know what happens when you’re locked up?” he said. “You sleep all day and watch daytime TV. You’re watching Jerry Springer, and someone feeds you three hot meals a day. Admitting what you did, confronting your actions, hearing from a victim about the impact that things have had on them, that’s tough.”
San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 2011 by Stacy Finz
http://bit.ly/oh52aC
Ann O’Leary, a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s law school who attended Clinton’s speech, was particularly impressed by how Clinton used data and research to make her point. “It was incredibly pulled together,” O’Leary said. “And her goals are realistic.”
-Reuters, September 16, 2011 by Mary Slosson
http://reut.rs/pyG2Zk
“As a general matter, this could be a cautionary tale about trying to litigate the bejeezus out of an unhappy situation,” Talley said.
-The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2011 by Liz Moyer
http://on.wsj.com/nlikg8
“This may have been more than anything else a very unsettling divorce,” said Eric Talley, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “They ended up in an arms race of litigation.”
-Miller-McCune, September 16, 2011 by Emily Badger
http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/the-dutch-can-handle-their-pot-36153/
“But mostly I think we can’t afford to ignore lessons form abroad,” MacCoun said. “We can’t afford to be provincial about this because we’ll never learn anything about how to make better policy unless we actually study countries that are trying different things.”
-Reason, September 16, 2011 by Jacob Sullum
http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/16/did-cannabis-cafs-make-the-net
“Cannabis consumption in the Netherlands is lower than would be expected in an unrestricted market,” MacCoun says, “perhaps because cannabis prices have remained high due to production-level prohibitions.”
-The Huffington Post, September 21, 2011 by Carly Schwartz
http://huff.to/nxDkBJ
“For me, that was the most tantalizing result,” he said. “The Dutch have actually come up with a way to regulate cannabis use while minimizing its harms.”
-East Bay Express, September 22, 2011 by David Downs
http://bit.ly/os87pb
It’s a trade-off, but the Dutch were probably thinking it’s a fair trade-off, because they initially set out to reduce hard drug use by separating the soft drug market from the hard drug market, and the data in the paper suggests that seems to have worked.
-High Times, September 24, 2011 by Mark Miller
http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7311
In fact, Prof MacCoun found that cannabis consumption in the Netherlands is actually lower than would be expected for a nation with defacto legalization, which he attributes to the high pot prices created by the coffeeshop’s “cannabis monopoly” that exists on the retail level, as opposed to outright legalization, which would inevitably drive prices lower due to increased production and competition.
-The Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2011 by Christopher Shea
http://on.wsj.com/pQLqmv
The United States figures are higher still, but “roughly equivalent” statistically, MacCoun writes—the main difference between U.S. and European-style prohibition being the use of prison as a deterrent: We incarcerate many more drug users.
Public Radio International, September 16, 2011 by Amy Isackson
http://bit.ly/ohqFld
Aarti Kohli, Director of Immigration Policy at the UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School, says the policy has the potential to affect only a small minority of the undocumented immigrants in the US. “We’re talking 300,000 people, not the estimated 11 million who are in the country. You don’t actually get legalized. You just don’t get deported.”
Indian Country, September 16, 2011 by Barry Bergman
http://bit.ly/n2FnFf
“Citing the erosion of tribal sovereignty and assaults on tribalism, Native critics argue that the final frontier of resistance is cultural protection,” she said. What sustains tribal communities today, she added, are “languages, names, stories, song, dances, ceremony” and other indigenous forms of knowledge.
Greenwire, September 13, 2011 by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2011/09/13/10
“I very much am concerned that CEQA will be increasingly watered down,” Biber said. “I think we’ve already seen a pattern of this happening.” His biggest concern is that the argument for easing environmental review for proposals that create jobs and are environmentally friendly could lead to confusion and conflict over what kind of projects are worthy.
American Society of International Law, August 24, 2011 by Oona A. Hathaway and Amy Kapczynski
http://www.asil.org/insights110824.cfm
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement promises to establish a new international legal framework for intellectual property rights enforcement. Yet it appears poised to have a less-expected and perhaps unintended effect: concluding ACTA as a sole executive agreement is in substantial tension with existing principles of presidential power to make international law and could set a precedent for more expansive use of sole executive agreements.
Foreign Policy, August 23, 2011 by Christina Larson
http://bit.ly/nqDnKP
“If this incident leads to more and better environmental transparency and better systems for ensuring that the public is protected from environmental risks, then it will have been a victory.” But he adds: “If the takeaway for the powers that be is that information needs to be more tightly controlled, then the pressures that led to the Dalian PX protests in the first place will only continue to grow.”
Scientific American, August 2011 by Franklin E. Zimring
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Perhaps the most optimistic lesson to take from New York’s experience is that high rates of homicides and muggings are not hardwired into a city’s populations, cultures and institutions…. it demonstrates that the environment in which people are raised does not doom them to a lifetime outside the law—and that neither do their genes.