Author Archives: Pete

Big press conference today from all the dinosaurs of prohibition, with such names as Bill Bennett, John Walters, Peter Bensinger, Robert DuPont, Calvina Faye, David Evans, and more, pushing to get the Attorney General to speak out against the marijuana … Continue reading →

Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study. Advisors say no serious rise in consumption is likely if possession of small amounts of controlled drugs is allowed. Front page major article in the Guardian tomorrow. Also front page of the … Continue reading →

The ONDCP is wants you to Celebrate National Substance Abuse Month. Celebrate? But “celebrate” isn’t the word that they keep abusing. It is, in fact, “abuse.” Check out their definition. Millions of Americans suffer from substance abuse, which includes underage … Continue reading →

40 Years of Drug War Failure Represented in a Single Chart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWr0neESf-M&sns=em http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf9XPlRRvxE&sns=em

The prohibitionists know that the con game they have to sell is a pig in a poke that that the public has seen through, which is why they keep trying to put lipstick on it. You have Kerlikowske, for example, … Continue reading →

Christie conditionally vetoes Good Samaritan Emergency Act “This bill as drafted … fails to carefully consider all the interests that must be balanced when crafting immunities to the protections provided in our criminal laws,” Christie, a former U.S. attorney for … Continue reading →

Occasionally in comments for newspaper articles, I’ll see some comment along the lines of: We don’t need any more unmotivated zoned-out stoners, so let’s keep marijuana illegal. Wow. What a concept. The “we-don’t-need-any-more” system of legislating. Forget analysis of whether … Continue reading →

“Think of the children” is one of the most maddeningly ridiculous mantras of the drug warrior, as if the entire world was intended to be some kind of padded child-safe cocoon. It’s certainly a terrible reason to lock up adults … Continue reading →

Vote to end the insanity of marijuana prohibition in The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon) Outstanding piece written by our own Allan Erickson