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Simple Justice

Erin Cox is a senior honor student at North Andover High School and was captain of her school volleyball team until she was punished and suspended for five games. The crime? She gave her drunk friend a ride home.

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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)

You'd think that in the age of medical pot, legal pot in Colorado and Washington, and a majority of Americans in favor of legalizing the drug, we'd at least have ended the 1980s practice of snatching kids from pot-smoking parents. You'd be wrong.

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Simple Justice

What does come as a surprise is the government has attained the level of sophistication necessary to break Tor, to identify the users behind the curtain, to track their virtual existence back to the real world, where people have names, live in rented

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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)

During his time in Congress, Biden was one of the fiercest drug warriors in Washington. Here's a not-comprehensive list of policies Biden has supported over the years that I put together in 2008 shortly after Obama chose him as his running mate:

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by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)

Here's a new video from the libertarian public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice. Combine civil asset forfeiture with the vague federal money laundering laws against "structuring," and you have a recipe for abuse.

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Attorney For Freedom Show

The topic is the George Zimmerman trial, but the drug war is certain to come up as well. Bill Montgomery may very well be the last person on the planet who still believes the drug war is making progress.

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AP

Dookhan stands accused of faking test results, tampering with evidence and routinely ignoring testing protocols. With thousands of challenges making their way through the court system, many believe it will be years before the cases are cleared.

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