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Feds smoke out largest drug tunnel yet It runs from Tijuana, Mexico, to Otay Mesa, California. [...] Officials said the tunnel is about seven-tenths of a mile (1,148 meters) or more than 1,200 yards long. Initial reports said it is 5 feet high and 3.5 feet wide. [...] Made of concrete, the passageway [...] That’s right. A student group is suing the Department of Education, because, well, the Department of Education is apparently made up of a bunch of morons. Students for Sensible Drug Policy is an incredible activist group that has been working tirelessly to overturn the stupid and counter-productive Higher Education Act provision that denies financial [...] With all the hysterical media in Britain going on and on about how marijuana makes everyone go psychotic, I’ve been surprised that I haven’t heard more of that Reefer Madness style reporting in the U.S. — in fact, there’s been little in the press here about the connection. Well, the Boston Globe tackled the [...] Count on William F. Buckley, Jr. to give an interesting perspective on our Latin American drug policies. He notes that Morales, a socialist who has called for an end to US crop eradication in Bolivia, knows how to use the free trade argument against us. Morales shapes his complaint in language similar to that [...] New rant added at Guest Rants — My ‘religion’ by tros. link OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadians elected their first Conservative government in 12 years, but gave it only a limited minority mandate to change policies and priorities. Harper is the guy who promised to get tougher on drugs. Asked why he would saddle a student who is caught with a small amount of the substance [...] Via Email from International AntiProhibitionist League… These are excerpts from a European Parliament Resolution adopted on January 18. The European Parliament, [...] D. whereas the pervasive opium and heroin production carries the risk of permanently affecting the nation‰s politics, crippling its society and distorting a fragile economy while consolidating a corrupt narco-elite, [...] [...] New York Times (via Atrios) Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who led the National Security Agency when it began the warrantless wiretaps, vigorously defended the program , though he acknowledged that it depended on a lower standard of evidence than required by courts. “The trigger is quicker and a bit softer,” said General Hayden, an [...] It’s gotten to the point where it just makes me laugh. Mark Kleiman has a good post about meth policy based on a New York Times Article. Policies that make pseudoephedrine harder to buy in order to deprive methamphetamine cooks of a key ingredient can indeed reduce small-scale domestic production, but the result is [...] Nathan Tabor is a professional moralist who writes for The Conservative Voice, and he brings us The War on Drugs Update: Each night, network news programs in America turn their focus on the war in Iraq. Yet, routinely, the national news media ignore another war that’s been going on now for more than 30 [...] |
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