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Another newspaper deserts

Eric Baerren, News Editor of the Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Morning Sun has a strong and detailed response to the recent Michigan Supreme Court decision allowing the discovery of chemical byproducts in the blood to qualify as “impaired” driving. Baarren takes apart the entire drug war and what it’s led to — more than I can […]

Secret, possibly illegal government spy program used to identify drug transactions

It’s simply the latest in the series of stories that reveal the administration’s mistaken belief that the 911 terrorists crashed into and destroyed the Constitution instead of the World Trade Center. This one has to do with secret investigations of international (and including domestic) financial transactions. As reported in the Washington Post:

U.S. counterterrorism officials […]

More on Len Bias

Today’s Washington Post has a good article by Eric E. Sterling and Julie Stewart: Undo This Legacy of Len Bias’s Death.

One result was the innocuous-sounding Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act, which became the first element of the enormous Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, hurried to the floor a little over two months after Bias’s […]

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I’ve added a number of new items at the Drug WarRant Store, utilizing the End Prohibition Now theme. These and more…

Servetus on Finally, a better use for dog sniffing: “Another reason not to throw people into some county lockup, even for a short period of time, for merely possessing…” Feb 24, 10:24
strayan on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “New study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0003134821995053 There was no apparent increase in the incidence of driving under the influence of marijuana after legalization” Feb 21, 06:18
Son of Sam Walton on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “Michele Alexander wrote about how the black culture has accepted gang culture as a source of pride. And in this…” Feb 18, 20:37
WalStMonky on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “. . Perhaps we just need to demand continuity from our governments. I think we all know that the Feds…” Feb 18, 10:40
Servetus on Really, Idaho?: “A total and permanent ban on hemp cultivation in California’s Humboldt County is designed to address the problems of pollen…” Feb 17, 11:38
Servetus on Finally, a better use for dog sniffing: “How do they do it? Dogs have “125-300 million olfactory cells and a third of their brains [are] devoted to…” Feb 11, 18:21
Servetus on Really, Idaho?: “Thanks for letting me know, Mitchell. I have a subscription to The Nation, which is why I was able to…” Feb 11, 11:31

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