2 stories in the NY Times today relating to heroin addictions and the consequences thereof, which i’m posting here following my year last year in a psychology internship working with opiate addicts. i wrote less than i thought i might about that experience as it was going on – though in retrospect the idea that [...]
Archive for the ‘law & policy’ Category
touching and troubling
Posted in art, law & policy, psychology, tagged art, drug policy, psychology on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
prohibition is an awful flop…we like it
Posted in environment, law & policy, tagged drug policy, law, poems, policy on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i came on here to put up a link, and laughed to see that my last post was about supporting prop 5 in CA, which sadly didn’t pass. but the link i was mentioning was to ethan nadelmann’s op ed in the wall street journal today, commemorating the repeal of prohibition on this day in [...]
yes on 5, non-violent offender rehabilitation act (NORA)
Posted in law & policy, tagged california, drug policy, election on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
still in shock about how soon election day is – and i’ve been having some lively conversations about prop 5, which is endorsed by all of the progressive/liberal voting guides that i’ve seen, but i also know a lot of folks are hearing the misleading arguments of prop 5’s many prominent opponents (like the last [...]
APA comes out against torture
Posted in law & policy, psychology, tagged psychology torture policy on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
freaking finally. for those who haven’t been following, there has been a fair amount of controversy over the fact that the APA had not banned psychologists from working for the government in positions where their expertise is used to assist in torture. here’s the APA letter to Bush condemning the human rights violations of this [...]
epidemic obesity is “natural”
Posted in health, law & policy, tagged health, law & policy, nutrition on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
there’s been a controversy over whether high fructose corn syrup can be labeled as “natural,” and the FDA has just sided with the Corn Refiners Association (and maybe with Disney, who doesn’t want to have wasted all that money updating the “It’s a Small World” ride so that overweight passengers no longer sink the boats) [...]
subpoena John Ashcroft!
Posted in law & policy, tagged ACLU, activism, law & policy on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So there are a bunch of organizations that I’m a member of – ACLU, Drug Policy Alliance, etc. – that send me action alerts from time to time that I always hold back from sending along to other friends so as not to be a big inbox-clogger, though I think about it because usually the [...]
U.S. Department of Peace
Posted in law & policy, tagged justice, law, peace on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had no idea until following a random link in an email today that there is a bill currently before the House of Representatives to create a U.S. Department of Peace!
From the growing rate of domestic incarceration to increasing problems of international violence, the United States has no more serious problem in our midst than [...]
neurolaw
Posted in law & policy, psychology, tagged academia, criminal justice, law, neuroscience, psychology on October 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mind Hacks’ 10/27 post ‘My brain made me do it’ reminds me of my Behavioral Science and the Law article, and makes me realize I never announced when it was published earlier this year. I remember when it happened I was kind of shy about it so I only mentioned it if it happened [...]
water, and a holistic health crime prevention theory cited in the NY times (gasp!)
Posted in environment, law & policy, tagged criminal justice, environment, psychology on October 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
today i did the sunday morning paper-reading thing (not that i usually do this, but i’m noting my accidental participation in a cultural habit) and enjoyed two pieces in particular:
first, an extensive feature story in the magazine about the effects of global warming on freshwater supplies, and particularly how this is going to impact the [...]
