Author Archives: Pete

Last month, the U.S. denied that they were setting up military bases in Colombia, claiming that the new arrangement to lease up to seven military bases in Colombia was simply for “fighting drug traffickers.” This didn’t pass the smell test … Continue reading →

Mary Anastasia O’Grady has always been one of the brighter lights in the Wall Street Journal opinion section. She understands that supply side efforts in the drug war are incapable of success. It’s a simple matter of the laws of … Continue reading →

That’s the title of a strange, disconcerting, and absurd column by Doug Hunter in the Tri-City Times (Michigan). Doug Hunter has been riding along with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, and reports on a couple of heinous crimes that … Continue reading →

ENCOD sends a letter to Malaysia asking them to stop killing people for trafficking small amounts of a plant that doesn’t kill people. Many people in Malaysia want to consume cannabis and other drugs, so it is obvious that other … Continue reading →

In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cynthia Tucker cautiously moves a step forward with Why not de-criminalize marijuana use?. It’s a short post that riffs off The Washington Post article I mentioned, as well as Andrew Sullivan’s Cannabis Closet posts. What’s interesting … Continue reading →

Well, duh. Washington Post: Cartels Face an Economic Battle Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have … Continue reading →

Regular readers have heard me rail against Caballes v. Illinois, the truly awful Supreme Court decision that allowed searches based only on the whim of a dog, thereby encouraging fishing expeditions. Well, the Supreme Court of Canada Saskatchewan Court of … Continue reading →

We see this all the time… 80% of Puerto Rico Murders Called Drug-Related SAN JUAN – About 80 percent of the murders committed in Puerto Rico are directly linked to drug trafficking, authorities and academics say. So despite the headline, … Continue reading →

Some people have so totally lost touch with reality that all I can do is laugh. Here’s the American Patrol Report writing at Right Side News about the recent El Paso conference. Critics say the people at the conference missed … Continue reading →

Robert Almonte, executive director, Texas Narcotic Officers Association and El Paso police deputy chief (retired), had a different view of the war on drugs than most of the learned participants in the recent conference in El Paso (surprise, surprise): ‘War … Continue reading →