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It’s one of the things that’s slipped by on this blog, but there’s quite a drug war situation in Jamaica right now. Nina, from Drugs, Law and Conflict was there recently and has a good report on the situation: State of emergency in Jamaica: new place, same story Basically, what you have is a [...] Some really good reading: President Obama’s war on his own ‘youthful irresponsibility’ by Gene Healy in the Washington Examiner [Thanks, Tom] Unthinkable? Repeal drugs laws — a very strong editorial by The Guardian. ONDCP on the defensive as drug war exposed to mainstream media critique — an excellent point-by-point takedown by [...] The new numbers are out from SAMHSA, so expect a variety of efforts to get the press to report that marijuana is so dangerous that more and more people are being admitted to treatment for marijuana addiction. Which, of course, is a complete misreading of the facts (or lie, if you prefer). Some preliminary [...] Police clean out a city park. Police later hauled away 300-400 medium-sized plants that they also believed was marijuana. If fact, officers only stopped collecting the plants because it got too dark, and planned to return in the morning to look around for more. However, after spending more than an hour removing and tagging [...] Radley Balko talks about a recent O’Reilly show with Charles Krauthammer on to talk about the Missouri SWAT raid. I really loathe this about cable news. They bring in the same personalities to talk what’s going on in the news. It doesn’t matter if those personalities have the slightest idea what they’re talking [...] We really made an impact here. I don’t know if he’s saying it because he thinks it’ll get the protesters off his back, or because he really does see the value of it, but it’s good either way. Via Morgan Fox at MPP: During a press conference yesterday, Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton went [...] I’ve talked about how the drug czar is trying to cover up the failures of supply side drug war (and all the other aspects of the national drug control policy) by simply saying the word “balance” as much as possible. “It’s a balanced approach,” they say, and that’s somehow supposed to make us go [...] Edward Schumacher-Matos in the Washington Post: The best thing that can be said about the 23,000 people who have been killed during Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s campaign against drug cartels in the last three years is that it proves that the war on drugs will never work. President Obama calls Calderon Mexico’s Elliott Ness [...] So with the huge AP story about us having wasted a trillion dollars on a failed drug war hitting almost every media outlet this week, I was wondering when the Drug Czar would start “pushing back.” (Oh, wait, that was the old name of the “blog.”) Well, the ONDCP’s ofSubstance “blog” has responded: ONDCP [...] Family values conservative and sadomoralist Mark Souder (R-Ind) to Resign Amid Allegations of Affair With Staffer Eight-term Rep. Mark Souder was announcing his resignation Tuesday after admitting to an affair with a female aide who worked in his district office. Souder, who will step down on Friday, said in remarks obtained by Fox News [...] |
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