Monthly Archives: July 2008

link The War on Drugs has cost taxpayers $500 billion since 1973. Nearly 500,000 people are behind bars on drug charges today, yet drugs are as available as ever. Do you plan to continue the War on Drugs, or will … Continue reading →

It is the silly season, but this goes beyond to some kind of twilight zone. John McCain gave a speech at the NAACP convention, and authorized Dr. Ada Fisher (candidate for the House in North Carolina) to speak as official … Continue reading →

An interesting, and possibly telling, controversy boiled up in the Illinois House yesterday… The Illinois House erupted in an angry confrontation over regionalism and race Wednesday, after a legislator from Chicago accused downstate lawmakers of wanting to stoke urban crime … Continue reading →

John Carnevale, who worked with four drug czars in the past as budget director, criticizes the ONDCP in the Huffington Post. (This isn’t the first time — he has previously accused Walters of simplifying data.) Carnevale criticizes the over-reliance on … Continue reading →

Serving and protecting (via Radley) A confidential informant and an undercover detective waited inside the restaurant [McDonald’s] to sell Dixon an ounce of cocaine and 100 Ecstasy pills for $950. More than a dozen officers waited outside, including Lt. Steve … Continue reading →

Radley Balko asks the question over at Fox News: – In 1989, your wife Cindy became addicted to the prescription drugs Percocet and Vicodin. Eventually, she began stealing medication from the non-profit medical charity she ran to assist the victims … Continue reading →

Economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw has an OpEd in the New York Times What If the Candidates Pandered to Economists? It’s a light piece about how the campaign might be different if McCain and Obama were trying to court the … Continue reading →

“bullet” Grits for Breakfast reports on a police officer’s approach to conducting his job Investigators found that the sergeant had used drug evidence with the wrong cases, disposed of narcotics evidence and improperly stored evidence envelopes in his desk. The … Continue reading →

“bullet” Graham Boyd continues his reports from Vienna conference on drug policy, including some intriguing stuff regarding attempts from the ONDCP office to sabotage their efforts. Day Two and Day Three “bullet” U of Central Florida column by Ben Badio: … Continue reading →