Monthly Archives: August 2005

Michael Mayo has an excellent column in today’s Sun-Sentinel: An ounce of pot, 10 bullets and one failed drug war “What in the hell were they doing with a SWAT team?” asked Eleanor Shockett, a retired Miami-Dade circuit judge who … Continue reading →

Via Cannabis News, check out this article by Laura McPhee in Nuvo (Indiana) Cannabis Cure: Miracle or Myth? However, an examination of the facts about marijuana demonstrates that the most common and dangerous myths about America‰s most widely used illegal … Continue reading →

Link CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – The United States has revoked the U.S. visas of six Venezuelan military officers, including a top anti-drugs chief, just days after President Hugo Chavez ended cooperation with Washington’s anti-narcotics agency. Of course, the interesting thing … Continue reading →

It’s official. Computer games have caused more overdose deaths than marijuana.

Give me your best shot in comments. [Via Dependable Renegade]

Libby at Last One Speaks has this story about Marc Craven Caven, a career snitch who uses entrapment as his normal method of operation. Here’s what he does. After getting hired by a police force, he goes looking for people … Continue reading →

I just realized that it’s been some time since I gave you an update on the HHS stalling tactics. As a recap, this is about the efforts by Americans for Safe Access to use a new law called the Data … Continue reading →

“bullet” Keith Gottschalk used to be a talk show host here in Central Illinois and I got to know him through that and through his blogging as well. He’s got a column yesterday in Rabble (a progressive Canadian publication) about … Continue reading →

There was some additional information in the papers today, and I planned an update, but Radley’s done it very well already. Go read. There’s no way that this killing can be justified. Because there is no justification for the police … Continue reading →

…for getting people talking! The blogosphere has been alive in the past day with talk of the drug war (as of this point, Feedster tracks about 50 blogs discussing Tierney and meth since his article appeared). All because a New … Continue reading →