Monthly Archives: July 2014

The always excellent Maia Szalavitz has another good article: Most of Us Still Don’t Get It: Addiction Is a Learning Disorder There’s a lot of misinformation pushed out there about addiction, and much of it is used to justify interventional … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we discussed the idea of law enforcement visiting the holocaust museum to avoid the authoritarian mistakes of the past. Of course, the problem is, even as the linked article admitted, it’s not so easy to see past your own … Continue reading →

This surprised the hell out of me… FBI sends agents to Holocaust museum We send every one of our agents to the Holocaust Museum before they’re agents to know and understand what happens when an agency goes rogue,” ex-FBI director … Continue reading →

Report: Honduras President Blames US Drug Policy for Migrant Surge Hernandez, who took office in January after winning on a pledge to be tough on crime, said only a drop in violence would curb the wave of families and unaccompanied … Continue reading →

Programming note: DEBATE ON LEGALIZED MARIJUANA TO BE BROADCAST WEDNESDAY Judge Jim Gray to Advocate for Legalization Opposite Dr. Kevin Sabet CO—Former federal prosecutor, judge advocate for the Navy JAG corps and Superior Court Judge Jim Gray (Ret.) is in … Continue reading →

White House Opposes Republican Amendment Undermining D.C. Marijuana law Reform So the District of Columbia essentially passed a law reducing the penalty for marijuana from jail to a fine. But U.S. Representative Andy Harris (R-MD) pushed forward an amendment in … Continue reading →

Radley Balko with more good stuff: Daniel Chong is the entirely predictable result of dehumanizing drug offenders “Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.” – Myles Ambrose, director of the Office ofDrug Abuse Law Enforcement during the Nixon Administration. … Continue reading →

LA Times: DEA may be losing the war on marijuana politics “For 13 of the 14 years I have worked on this issue, when the DEA came to a hearing, committee members jumped over themselves to cheerlead,” said Bill Piper, … Continue reading →

Jacob Sullum does an excellent job of analyzing this year’s stragety: Obama’s ‘Third Way’ Looks a Lot Like the War on Drugs As Sullum appropriately notes, it’s a mixture of good and bad elements, but it still overall adds up … Continue reading →

I’m on my way to Los Angeles for a few days for work. Here are a few items to get your blood boiling… Meet Jason Westcott, your latest, needless, inexcusable drug war tragedy On the night of May 27, as … Continue reading →