Monthly Archives: June 2004

Walter in Denver notes Why The Drug War Is Doomed To Fail He points to a Rocky Mountain News article which pretty well indicates that people will always find a drug of choice, legal or illegal: Colorado calls to the … Continue reading →

Jason at Positive Liberty sent me this bizarre item in The Guardian. As part of a long story about unusual and deadly plants in a castle garden… ‡ Cannabis sativa Indian hemp or marijuana (not to mention pot, dope, spliff, … Continue reading →

Joel Miller’s article Why Drug Cops Can’t Win” at World Net Daily is an interesting read. (Joel Miller is also author of the new book “Bad Trip: How the Drug War is Destroying America.”) In the World Net Daily article, … Continue reading →

Nice column by Dean Becker in this month’s The Free Press (Houston, TX) For 89 1/2 years, we have escalated the mechanisms, the bloodshed, the deaths, disease and misery of our nation through our policy of “drug prohibition”.æ Based on … Continue reading →

I spent the day yesterday with my Dad. I didn’t have the time — there’s so much to do — but I drove the three hours each way, and helped him fix the settings on his new computer, and we … Continue reading →

Via TalkLeft Not surprisingly, Texas has enacted another dumb, probably unconstitutional law–delivery of a controlled substance to a minor–via the womb. It’s now a felony to smoke pot while pregnant –punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Alma Baker … Continue reading →

Via Chris and Sam.com comes an article in the Macomb Daily: “Sheriff gets armored vehicles” Macomb County’s “newest” weapon against crime is 44 years old, weighs a beefy 10 tons, travels only 3 miles on a gallon of gas, sits … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, comes this article by Ellis Henican in Newsday. Robert Morgenthau had called this meeting to announce that he was throwing his considerable political weight behind a bill to make marijuana legal for medical uses … Continue reading →

This one’s a doozy. From today’s St. Petersburg Times: TAMPA – The federal government took a hit Tuesday in its ongoing efforts against overseas drug smuggling. After a six-week trial involving 16 people from Lithuania and Ukraine accused of smuggling … Continue reading →

An AP story today: NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney joined television talk show host Montel Williams on Tuesday to support the legalization of marijuana for medical use. “It should be available to those whose suffering would be eased … Continue reading →