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When your drug war is a failure, silence those who actually have a solution

Everybody in the entire world is in agreement that the international effort to deal with opium in Afghanistan has been a colossal failure. Everybody is blaming everybody else and nobody has a clue what to do about it, with one exception: The Senlis Council (a European think-tank) has developed and promoted concrete and workable plans, […]

Drug WarRant needs a new laptop

Maybe I should say I want a new computer. My current laptop is still working, and I hope to get it to limp along until January at least, but it’s missing a couple of keys and is held together with tape. My 12″ Mac Powerbook has been phenomenal — it has been my workhorse for […]

HHS gets a letter

Via Americans for Safe Access, Senator James Jeffords (Vermont) sent a letter (pdf) to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, asking why they hell it’s taking them so long to do their job in the legal process of evaluating a petition to reschedule marijuana (he worded it a little different […]

The ONDCP’s pet talks about needle exchange

Over at the Drug Czar’s “blog,” they have crafted an Ask the Expert “interview” with “Doctor” David Murray on needle exchange. This is their own pet doctor who they trot out whenever they want to sound like they have something medical to say. It’s as bizarre as most of what comes out of the Drug […]

Radley Balko

Congratulations to Radley Balko for his new gig as a senior editor at Reason. Sounds like a good fit to me. Radley, of course, is the author of Overkill, has done incredible research in the area of the militarization of the drug war, and is The Agitator who brought the Corey Maye case to national […]

Servetus on Taking bets: “At CU Boulder, Colorado, machine learning is being applied to distinguishing little-studied cannabinoids and other compounds in marijuana: 29-SEP-2020…beyond intoxicating…” Sep 29, 21:31
darkcycle on The war on drugs complicity in the death of Breonna: “Thanks, Servetus and DdC. That is effectively a bombshell.” Sep 29, 12:37
Servetus on The war on drugs complicity in the death of Breonna: “My information came from a piece on Tucker Carlson who says Breonna, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake had it coming,…” Sep 28, 19:12
DdC on The war on drugs complicity in the death of Breonna: “Lawyer: Plea offer tried to link Breonna Taylor to drug ring https://www.local10.com/news/national/2020/09/01/lawyer-plea-offer-implicated-breonna-taylor-in-drug-ring/ Wine said Glover, Taylor’s former boyfriend implicated Taylor…” Sep 28, 16:54
DdC on The war on drugs complicity in the death of Breonna: “This is more “Bad Laws” enforced that make cops look more racist and brutal than normally. These “laws” were written…” Sep 28, 15:15
darkcycle on The war on drugs complicity in the death of Breonna: “Servetus, do you have a link to where you saw that one reason given for the Taylor raid was police…” Sep 28, 14:01
Servetus on Taking bets: “The epigenetics of cocaine addiction is highlighted by researchers in a rat study: Summary: Individuals suffering from substance-use disorders develop…” Sep 27, 08:11

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