openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum: Medical Pot and Mushroom-Munching Xmas Reindeer

The British website openDemocracy publishes a regular feature called the Drug Policy Forum that takes a critical reformist look at stories about the "war on drugs" and criminal justice issues.

The most recent issue includes stories about:

• US state medical marijuana laws
  
• Latin American drug cartels
• Copenhagen's moves to legalize pot
• drug abuse in Iran
• the shamanic origins of many Christmas traditions (what are those "magical" reindeer eating before they fly through the air?)