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Mark Kleiman got it right
On eradication in Afghanistan: One question not asked in the NY Times story is how much it matters to the drug problem in the U.S. whether the Afghan government cracks down on poppy-growing or not. […] I can assure you … Continue reading
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No Raich decision today
The Supreme Court released decisions on five cases today, including the Livestock Marketing Case (one of the last from the December sitting besides Raich). Raich was not included, and the next day for decisions is Tuesday, May 31 (after the … Continue reading
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Drug Dogs 0 for 31
Via Jim at Vice Squad: A middle school in Pennsylvania was placed in “lockdown” at 2PM on Tuesday: Students were kept in their classrooms while three dogs searched the building, looking for marijuana, cocaine, crack, amphetamines, heroin and ecstasy. The … Continue reading
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We get stoopider in Afghanistan
Via TalkLeft comes this article about an upcoming showdown (which I paraphrase): Karzai: “You tortured prisoners!” U.S.: “Oh yeah? Well… you have poppies!”
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Freeport, Illinois gets it
Freeport is a town of about 26,000 in the middle of a large agricultural area in Northern Illinois. And yet, the Freeport Journal Standard editorial today nails Congress as far as mandatory minimums and the drug war: Mandatory Minimums a … Continue reading
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Monitoring Medicine Purchases a Sick Idea
Assistant Editor Michael Smith has it right in today’s Galveston County Daily News: Some in the Texas Legislature think the police ought to know how much cold and allergy medicine you’re buying. They want consumers’ names entered in a log … Continue reading
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Our representatives aren’t just pathetic, they’re dangerous.
“bullet” The Whizzinator: A House Panel’s No. 1 Priority — that’s right, our tax dollars are spent investigating ways to outlaw a fake penis that’s used to fool drug tests … The Whizzinator isn’t quite the gold standard in athletic … Continue reading
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Afghan Poppycock: Hamid Karzai’s halfhearted jihad
Interesting analysis of the Afghanistan situation by David Bosco at Slate.
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Big Lies from the King of the Whopper
Adam wrote and asked me to take on the OpEd in the Washington Post: Cutting Marijuana Use Calls for More Than Tough Policing by Joseph Califano The increased potency of today’s marijuana and the greater knowledge we have of the … Continue reading
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