Monthly Archives: December 2008

“bullet” More 10th Graders Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes. Maybe that’s bad. Maybe that’s good. But it certainly isn’t a vindication of the drug czar’s successes. “bullet” Drug czar accuses reformers of secretly wanting to encourage teen use. “bullet” More Obfuscation … Continue reading →

Regardless of the answers given (or not) by the Obama transition team to the questions below, the mere fact that they were asked and obviously resonated so strongly with people, is already making an impact. Quite a few people have … Continue reading →

Excellent job, people. The Obama transition team has got to be scrambling to figure out how to deal with this. When they opened up for questions about what concerns Americans and let people vote on the questions online in a … Continue reading →

At President-elect Obama’s site: change.gov, they have instituted a new system for people to ask questions and then others vote on the questions to bring them to the top of the pile. It’s called Open for Questions There are already … Continue reading →

Drug Czar John Walters will be hosting Ask the White House this Friday, December 12. Send in your questions now. Of course, they’re pre-screened and selected and you don’t get a follow-up, so don’t imagine you’re going to nail him … Continue reading →

As you may know, the U.S. has put the Merida Initiative underway to help the Mexican government fight their drug war — $1.6 billion over three years, with $400 million going to Mexico this year for a combination of law … Continue reading →

As if there weren’t already enough, Maia Szalavitz picks up some more: Jim Ramstad was the sole sponsor of an earmark providing $235,000 to Minnesota Teen Challenge, a branch of a national anti-addiction group which believes that recruiting people into … Continue reading →

There must have been some massive breakdown in procedure in the arrest of a suspect in Chicago early this morning by the FBI. Check out how they went about it. Robert Grant, the FBI special agent in charge, called the … Continue reading →

Via Radley, Colbert King at the Washington Post, who has done more to shed light on Jonathan Magbie’s death back in 2004, continues with For Jonathan Magbie, a Catalogue of Injustice For those who missed this case back then, Magbie … Continue reading →

The foremost academic apologist for a kinder, gentler prohibition — Mark Kleiman — has resurfaced to address prohibition again, and as usual resorts to academic dishonesty and outright wankery. Kleiman had pretty much stopped writing about drug policy at his … Continue reading →