Monthly Archives: May 2007

“bullet” LA Times editorializes: Ending the Marijuana Monopoly: Federal Officials Should Allow Competition in Growing the Drug for Needed Studies on Its Medical Use. Good. Puts more pressure on DEA bad girl Michele Leonhart, who has to decide how to … Continue reading →

I’m very busy in New York, seeing shows and giving walking tours all over the city. I’ve brought 79 people from Central Illinois to the city this year for a theatre trip. Saw Grey Gardens last night, Frost/Nixon and Year … Continue reading →

This editorial in the Edmonton Journal (Canada) responds to the suggestion that Harper will pursue a U.S.-style war on drugs. If that is the case, it would be an unfortunate mistake with predictable and very disappointing outcomes. While Washington from … Continue reading →

In today’s Independent on Sunday (UK), Hugh O’Shaughnessy reports: America has spent billions battling the drug industry in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. And the result? Production as high as ever, street prices at a low, and the governments of the … Continue reading →

This comment from kaptinemo is worth repeating: The goal was never to do the impossible, namely, eliminate illicit drugs from urban populations. The goal very simply was to gradually acclimate citizens to increased inroads into their civil liberties, numbing them … Continue reading →

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I’ll be taking 79 people to Manhattan for a week of theatre and walking tours, May 29 through June 5. I’m going to be extremely busy that week, but if anyone wants to get together for coffee some time to … Continue reading →

I fear for the planet. When the leadership of so much of the world is unable to understand the simplest of concepts… It is criminally irresponsible to assume that the only options to approaching certain problems are military success or … Continue reading →

Philadelphia’s likely next mayor, Michael Nutter, and Baltimore City Council’s Robert W. Curran, seem to be trying to outdo each other in the pro-authoritarian anti-reason tough-on-crime competition. Under Curran’s plan, the mayor could declare “public-safety-act zones,” which would allow police … Continue reading →

Surprise, surprise. Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan. Rice farmers along the Euphrates, to … Continue reading →