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Daily Archives: December 1, 2007
How political decisions are made
This is such an amazingly spot-on description of how politicians make decisions related to the drug war… Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is pressing ahead with plans to create mandatory minimum prison terms for drug crimes in spite of two … Continue reading
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How America Lost the War on Drugs
Ben Wallace-Wells’ extensive article in Rolling Stone chronicles a litany of failures in the modern age of the war on drugs — failures of politics, judgement, and personality. While I’m not sure I agree with all of Wallace-Wells’ assumptions (such … Continue reading
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