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Canada – get ready for some misery
Canada: Harper To Unveil US-Style ‘War On Drugs’ The Harper government’s new anti-drug strategy is expected to take a tough approach to illicit drugs: cracking down on grow-ops and pushers, and retreating from “harm reduction” measures such as safe injection … Continue reading
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Just like Mom used to bake
This is causing a bit of a stir: High Number of Moms Admit Pot Use A number of mothers in the Phoenix area admit they use marijuana to wind down after a long day, television station KPHO reported. Shay Pausa … Continue reading
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Odds and Ends (and open thread)
“bullet” Alex at Drug Law Blog has a very interesting post (inspired by a discussion in comments here at Drug WarRant): Civil Disobedience, the War on Drugs, and Fiorello LaGuardia. Where’s our Fiorello LaGuardia? “bullet” From Jerry Large of the … Continue reading
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More from Gravel
A presidential candidate saying such things? Note, the transcript of this interview is pretty rough, but the meaning is clear. Timothy Gatto had an interview with Mike Gravel and this is one part: Gatto: I have seen what Cocaine, Heroin … Continue reading
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Let me clear something up, part 2
One of the arguments I often hear against legalization is that legalization would result in vast numbers of people who would then suddenly develop dangerous drug abuse problems. Here’s the problem with that argument (in addition to the fact that … Continue reading
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Let me clear something up, part 1
The drug czar has a particularly heinous post in approvingly linking to an ignorant article in the Scotsman. Yuppies’ ‹Cocaine Soaked with Innocent BloodŠ […] Wood accused thousands of middle-class cocaine users of being ‹morally and politically irresponsible,Š and spoke … Continue reading
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Maybe we should invade the U.S….
Radley Balko catches this sadly hilarious insanity from neocon Michael Ledeen lamenting the terrible state of the justice system in Iran: Terrifying pictures, to be sure. For me, the most revealing thing about them is that the police feel obliged … Continue reading
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Lou Dobbs and the Mexican Attorney General’s office just can’t understand why there is violence in the drug war.
Sigh. From Lou Dobbs’ show on Friday (unofficial transcript)… Lou Dobbs: “You’ve gotta hand it to Philipe Calderon, the President of Mexico. He’s trying, and trying very hard to deal with an out-of-control drug industry in his country. Illegal drugs. … Continue reading
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School drug testing gets thoughtful criticism
Drug testing in schools is one of the many aspects of the drug war that has a visceral appeal to those looking for quick prohibition-style solutions to the “drug problem.” Quite frankly, they are generally able to see it in … Continue reading
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Sunday afternoon reading
“bullet” Remember the time I single-handedly ended the war against marijuana? — a fun fantasy with which many of you will closely identify, I suspect.
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