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Time – Brain Damage

OK, Time Magazine is entitled to their own list of the top 100 influential albums of all time. But can you possibly take a list like that seriously when it doesn’t include Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”? I mean, how can that even be a consideration? It’s not a border-line option. I mean, […]

Context for Kathryn Johnston

Radley has an outstanding (and horrifying — even though I’ve read about all those cases before, it still hurts) piece putting the Johnston story in perspective, with examples from other bad raids.

People like Maye and Johnston are supposed to show remarkable poise and judgment, despite the fact that armed men are breaking into their […]

Robyn Blumner on Friedman and the Drug War

A refreshing OpEd in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Friedman made right call on legalization

… In a Newsweek article Friedman wrote in 1972, he took a step outside his realm of monetary policy and free marketeering and laid out in clear, unequivocal terms what kind of social disaster we were buying with Nixon’s drug war. […]

Son of Sam Walton on John Oliver on police drug raids: “When my homeboy’s house got busted, the cops came in just singing, though no shooting. A civil lawsuit over the…” Mar 8, 09:35
Son of Sam Walton on Billie Holliday and Harry Anslinger: “And to think she also lived in a whore house as a child, according to wiki. Forced to do things…” Mar 7, 09:08
Servetus on Billie Holliday and Harry Anslinger: ““I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti…” Mar 6, 15:28
Carlyle Moulton on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “I tried to edit this comment but doing so was very difficult because the comment extended outside the bounds of…” Mar 3, 10:37
Carlyle Moulton on Drug Wars are a Social Health Menace: “There is not now nor in the past ever has been a “war against drugs” but there has been and…” Mar 3, 10:17
Servetus on Washington Supreme Court rules felony drug possession law unconstitutional: “Buprenorphine used by patients with opioid use disorder is safe to use with benzodiazepines while still reducing ODs: March 3,…” Mar 3, 09:47
Servetus on John Oliver on police drug raids: “Kamala Harris joined the Biden prohibition league and will not be supporting marijuana legalization at the federal level. What else…” Mar 2, 13:16

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