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Downing Street’s Secret Drugs Report
Go see Daksya’s new blog, Psychotonic. He’s done a great job of laying out the Downing Street Report (something he had sent to me, but I had not gotten around to posting). Here it is in four installments: Part 1 … Continue reading
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The Return of Reefer Madness
At Salon, Maia Szalavitz takes on the ONDCP’s advertising campaigns, including some of the borderline and outright lies about mental illness, depression, and cancer. Nothing new to those of us who follow this regularly, and it’s not particularly compelling reading, … Continue reading
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Just a simple case of mistaken identity?
Via Last One Speaks and US Marijuana Party, comes this gem. So here’s the deal… Cops think they see marijuana plants in a back yard. They take pictures They show the pictures to the district attorney The district attorney takes … Continue reading
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Asset Forfeiture Abuse
The Las Vegas Review Journal nails Boulder City Attorney David Olsen in this scathing editorial Southern Nevada has a new general in the drug war: Boulder City Attorney David Olsen. And Mr. Olsen isn’t concerned about sacrificing freedom to wage … Continue reading
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Drug War and Class War
In today’s Providence Journal, a good read by Froma Harrop […]Possession of cocaine, a felony, did not interfere with [George W. Bush or Lincoln Chaffee’s] Ivy League education. Nor did it stop them from seeking and attaining high public office. … Continue reading
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