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Richard Cowan
5 min
May 29, 2025

Prohibition 2.0 Making a Mess of Marijuana Legalization. Just Get Out of the Way. That Will Work Best for Everyone.

When I first became National Director of NORML, in 1992, I joked that it was the whitest organization that I had ever belonged to that didn’t have ...

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Richard Cowan
2 min
May 28, 2025

Marijuana Prohibition, Wasted Police Resources and Finite Justice

When I wrote about the 30 million marijuana arrests in America over the last 50 years, I focused primarily on the injustice and the human consequen...

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Richard Cowan
2 min
May 27, 2025

The New German Health Minister, A Lawyer, Not A Doctor, Wants To Make It Harder For Elderly Germans to Get Medical Cannabis. Of Course She Wouldn’t Put It That Way

Nina Warken, the new German Health Minister, wants to ban telemedicine prescriptions for cannabis. She says, “Cannabis is an intoxicating drug and ...

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Richard Cowan
3 min
May 26, 2025

Why Is It Thailand’s Fault That Stupid Tourists from Stupid Prohibitionist Countries Try to Smuggle Out Cannabis?

Thailand, which actually means “Land of the Free”, is being pressured into sharply restricting cannabis sales because foreign tourists have been ca...

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Richard Cowan
3 min
May 22, 2025

Switzerland Announces Plan to “Legalize” Cannabis, Again.

A committee of the Swiss House of Representatives has introduced a bill to legalize recreational cannabis “in an effort to curb the illegal market....

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Richard Cowan
4 min
May 21, 2025

Why Is the UK Still Failing Children Who Need Medical Cannabis?

The irony! From the beginning of cannabis prohibition, it has been justified by claims that it was protecting children from cannabis, but now it se...

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Richard Cowan
3 min
May 20, 2025

Scotland Forever? Not With This Drugs Policy!

Scotland has always “punched above its weight”. With only about five million people, less than 10 percent of the population of the UK, it has playe...

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