Commentators like Bill O'Reilly claim that ending the drug war would lead to more children being abused by drug-addicted parents. But 33-year law enforcement veteran Neill Franklin sees it differently.

"These drugs in an illegal environment are more accessible to our kids," says Franklin, who serves as Executive Director Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, "because we leave complete control, regulation, and standards up to the criminals."

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Drugs kill, and you should just say no. Suzanne Dyer knows this as well as anyone: her son, Chris, died last year from a seizure caused by the "legal high" GBL, after a milder form of the same compound, GHB, was banned. In Our Drugs War, the documentary-maker Angus Macqueen followed Suzanne to her son's grave, where she sat trailing her fingers along the base of the headstone commemorating his 24 years of life. "I say that I love him," she said, her voice nearly breaking. "I'll say to him sometimes that it'll be all right, and I know he's in a better place. And that we miss him. 'Cos we do miss him. So much. I'm sorry he's dead and I'm sorry he suffered so much."

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Season 6 of Weeds (Showtime, Aug. 16) promises to be another thriller. The Botwin family will be hitting the road, taking new identities and getting as far away from the Mexican Mafia as possible .

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Hey, watch this unbelievable video of firedoglake's Jane Hamsher hurling marijuana legalization like a hand grenade into the middle of the immigration debate.

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In recent weeks, Mexican television viewers have been deluged with an advertisement in power rotation on all networks, including cable channels, from an apparently wealthy consortium called “Iniciativa México,” or, the Mexico Initiative.

The ad features head coach Javier Aguirre of Mexico’s national soccer team (the original ad appears here) strutting around the Mexico City monument known as the Angel of Independence, wearing a suit jacket and unbuttoned white shirt, noting that 2010 marks the bicentennial of Mexican independence and the centennial of the revolution of 1910. And, he encourages the people of the nation not to fall into “the old complexes” this time and to be positive and sunshiney in this historic year.

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Claudia Cowan – a “reporter” for Fox News and therefore supposedly impartial when it comes to news stories – took to the Foxnews.com blog today to spew her anti-marijuana propaganda.

Commenting on the proposal to tax and regulate marijuana on California’s ballot this fall, she had this to say:

The initiative is sponsored by Richard Lee, the founder of the Bay Area’s Oaksterdam University, a marijuana trade school. “We see this as a first step, and it does leave it open for the legislature to expand upon it, and to establish a statewide regulation system,” Lee says.

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