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Don’t drug test our innocent children
Nice editorial in the North County Times: If parents want to test their kids for drugs, the kits are cheap and available these days. But Vista Unified School District and other public officials should stick to education. […] It just … Continue reading
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Freepers and the Wall Street Journal article
The piece from the Wall Street Journal mentioned here yesterday, is being discussed at Free Republic. Every time drugs come up there, it’s an explosion. You’ve got a good group of intelligent libertarian conservatives mixing it up with wacked-out social … Continue reading
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Walter Cronkite
As a child, I grew up with the reassuring presence of Walter Cronkite on the television news. This is before the days of instant information and news as entertainment that must be profitable. Then, the networks considered the news the … Continue reading
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More stupid legislators
I am continually amazed at lawmakers’ proud display of their complete and absolute absence of even the barest glimmerings of human intelligence. I have to assume that their parents still tie their shoes for them. Idaho lawmakers are taking their … Continue reading
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Wall Street Journal – Intelligent Drug War Piece
This is a must-read in the Wall Street Journal: Global View by George Melloan: Musings About the War on Drugs (alternate link) Economist Milton Friedman predicted in Newsweek nearly 34 years ago that Richard Nixon’s ambitious “global war against drugs” … Continue reading
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Supreme Court rules in favor of religious use of hoasca tea
Via TalkLeft (and thanks, Daksya) In a unanimous decision (without Alito participating), the judges ruled that the government could not prevent the Uniao do Vegetal (UDV) church from utilizing ayahoasca (which contains the hallucinogenic substance DMT). In their first religious … Continue reading
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A time bomb on our border
Link From Mexican voters, in a poll for The Dallas Morning News, Al Dia and El Universal: 93 percent say drug trafficking is a serious problem in Mexico, spreading from border cities to other parts of the country. 81 percent … Continue reading
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US and Bolivia’s Morales reach an agreement
This is a bit of a surprise: Morales and his vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, held a long meeting over the weekend in Government House with U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia David Greenlee to discuss the anti-drug policy to be implemented … Continue reading
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More overkill at The Agitator
“bullet” Radley’s got the story and partial video of a bizarre 70-90 officer SWAT drug raid conducted on the Rack n’ Roll Billiards Club under the guise of an Alcohol Beverage Control inspection (therefore warrantless). Three were arrested for drug … Continue reading
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An idiot-eye view of the black market
Now and then I find something out there that is just so stupid that it really doesn’t even deserve comment… Yet how can I resist? I don’t know anything about The New Media Journal.us. For all I know, they only … Continue reading
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