*”Guest Rant: Ethan Straffin takes…

“Guest Rant: Ethan Straffin takes on Lou Dobbs”
Last week, Lou Dobbs hosted a series on CNN called “The Forgotten War” (entire transcript) in which he gave particular emphasis to the distortions of drug war cheerleaders like former drug czar William Bennett and current drug czar John Walters.
On August 10, Dobbs followed this stunt with an outrageous OpEd in the New York Daily News, in which he parroted false and distorted information from the drug warriors, and ignored his supposed economic credentials.
As a special treat today, I bring you the wonderful response by a fellow drug policy reformer Ethan Straffin. You can also read Lou Dobbs’ original article, and my letter to the editor.
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