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Monthly Archives: December 2007
New Racial Disparity Report
The Justice Policy Institute will be releasing a study today “detailing the different treatment white and black drug offenders receive under the criminal justice system.” It appears to be explosive from the first reports to hit the news… According to … Continue reading
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Bestowing the gluteus maximus of a rodent
Mark Kleiman and the Drug Czar both link approvingly to Physicians unlikely to embrace marijuana as medicine by Keith Humphreys. We know the drug czar’s motivation — he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about sick people today and is willing … Continue reading
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Antonio Maria Costa
I’ve been doing a little more thinking about one of the Thursday keynote speakers at the Drug Policy Alliance’s 2007 International Drug Policy Reform Conference — UNODC’s Antonio Maria Costa. I find myself wondering what I would say if I … Continue reading
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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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