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Christy McCampbell, State Department Employee, Idiot

Via PoliBlog, comes this unbelievable quote in the Miami Herald:

”Our belief is that if we could eradicate all coca, we could eradicate all cocaine, because it is the basic ingredient for cocaine,” said Christy McCampbell, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for international narcotics and law enforcement.

That’s your “belief?” No. That’s a fact. […]

60 minutes on California’s ‘Pot Shops’

tonight — I expect that this will be a bit of a hit piece on how the California med-mar distribution has evolved. I’m interested to see how balanced it is (and how much recreational marijuana is demonized by both sides). I’ll be in rehearsal, so if you see it, let us know in comments.

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