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Smoked Medicine
Remember how all the drug warriors always harp on the fact that marijuana can’t be medicine because it’s smoked? It’s been their way of glossing over the fact that there are so many studies that definitely demonstrate that marijuana has … Continue reading
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Drinking Licenses
This is slightly off-topic, but I wanted to address this bizarre suggestion by Mark Kleiman in his mostly sensible article If someone is convicted of drunken driving, or drunken assault, or drunken vandalism, or repeatedly of drunk and disorderly conductÖif, … Continue reading
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Human Events Online again
For the third time in a week, Human Events Online has a drug war piece. I’m wondering if the new one is an attempt to repair their image after the John Hawkins disaster. This one is Big, Big Government by … Continue reading
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Mark Kleiman gets it right, mostly.
Mark Kleiman has a really outstanding piece at The American Interest Online: Dopey, Boozy, Smoky — and Stupid (although the title, which he didn’t pick, sucks). This is Kleiman’s best piece to date, and finally does justice to his analyses … Continue reading
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Drug War… Victories?
Over at Human Events Online, which recently embarrassed itself by printing John Hawkins fetid In Defense of the Drug War, there is a new piece: Drug War Victories by Robert J. Caldwell. Caldwell touts the recent extradition of Mexican drug … Continue reading
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Kenneth Starr doesn’t like 9th Circuit libertarians
While working on my new Bong Hits 4 Jesus Supreme Court page I’ve found some interesting quotes in some of the briefs. For example, check out these from Ken Starr’s brief representing Principal Morse: … the court of appeals substituted … Continue reading
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Drug War Victim: 80-year-old Isaac Singletary
Another old person with a gun, living in a dangerous neighborhood. 80-year-old Isaac Singletary used to bring out his gun to scare off drug dealers, so when a saw a couple of low-lifes were on his lawn, he came out … Continue reading
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Drug War Funding Shortage a Good Thing
James Gierach rocks in this OpEd in the Daily Southtown (Chicago): County cuts could mean less drug-war money — and that’s not such a bad thing … These examples tell the folly of “staying the course” and hoping to win … Continue reading
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Magical Mushrooms
Mark Kleiman has an excellent post on last year’s study that demonstrated the enormous power for psilocybin mushrooms to generate meaningful mystical experiences in churchgoers who had no previous experience with hallucinogens. The results have potentially large importance for both … Continue reading
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More responses to the John Hawkins piece
One thing I’ll say about about John Hawkins piece In Defense of the Drug War at Right Wing News — it’s drawn a tremendous amount of fire from the libertarian and conservative (read: not authoritarian) circles (it’s less likely that … Continue reading
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