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Another Success
DEA Official Announces Successful Drug Bust On Son's Room Go to the Onion site to watch the video. The flash implementation by The Onion has been freezing up certain browsers, so I’ve taken it off this post.
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The incoherence of prohibitionist discourse
After Steve Chapman had his outstanding OpEd in the Chicago Tribune: An unconventional cure for Mexico’s drug violence, former DEA administrator emerged to pen this letter to the Tribune: Fighting for health and safety In it, he basically tosses out … Continue reading
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America the Ugly
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother … Continue reading
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10 Rules now online
The new video by Flex Your Rights.org, “10 Rules for Dealing with Police” (which I reviewed here), is now available for free on YouTube. You can also pick up the DVD for $15 so you can have your own copy … Continue reading
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Getting all those nasty drugs off the streets
So the Drug Czar is pretty excited. He got to check out some seized drugs when he visited with the Arizona Region of the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) office. This was a pretty major operation that … Continue reading
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Money money money money
I’m seeing more articles like this these days: Marijuana starting to look like a new revenue source for states by David Harrison Mary Lou Dickerson had seen enough. After wrenching cuts to Washington’s state drug and alcohol treatment programs, Dickerson, … Continue reading
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The never-ending supply
Mexican drug cartel leaders know the realities of the drug war, and apparently, compared to their government counterparts, they are willing to state the obvious. Mexican cartels cannot be defeated, drug lord says Mexico’s war on the drug trade is … Continue reading
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And the Titanic’s band plays on
Scientists stand up to the government in the UK. Drug ban chaos after resignation of adviser The war of attrition between the Government and its scientific advisers over how to curb illegal drug use claimed another casualty yesterday as an … Continue reading
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Coroner’s report: man killed by meteorite had marijuana in his system
Article in The Daily TonterÃa: San Hoyo, California: A coroner’s report released yesterday by police confirmed the presence of marijuana compounds in the system of Jonah Ellis, a 23-year-old man who was killed last Thursday just outside the town limits … Continue reading
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Weighing in on California
Drug Czar Ducks on California Pot Measure Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said he wouldn’t speculate on what the Obama administration would do if California voters approve a ballot initiative that would make marijuana legal for consumption but subject it to … Continue reading
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