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Congress tells ONDCP to test Biological Weapons

Just when I think we can sink no lower. Buried in the ONDCP re-authorization that the House passed with only 5 “no” votes was this piece of crap (pdf, see page 30):

(n) REQUIREMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MYCOHERBICIDE IN ILLICIT DRUG CROP ERADICATION.-Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of [...]

An interesting discussion on drug policy available online

I discussed at some length the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) report on drug policy by David Boyum and Peter Reuter. AEI recently hosted a discussion about the report, bringing in the authors and several drug policy “experts.” (I use quotation marks, because that description can be somewhat hard to define.) The entire session video [...]

Coca: as always, we demonize without understanding

In the piece about Morales giving Rice a guitar with coca leaves on it, I noted that the U.S. government has no understanding of the cultural background of these countries. This article by Niko Kyriakou really points out that gap.

The war against coca–the plant used to make cocaine–has become a defining issue for [...]

Drug Testing Summit going on Today

Tom Angell of Dare Generation Diary is live-blogging the Drug Testing Summit in Falls Church, Virginia. They’ve brought in the big guns. The Drug Czar himself is there to promote his government-sponsored fetish of watching children pee in a cup. SSDP has been doing a great job keeping on top of this issue. You [...]