Author Archives: Pete

Here’s an amazing little item that slipped by me while I was out of town. I did not realize that the Drug Czar was so incredibly talented! You may recall last September in Seattle that the Drug Czar was criticizing … Continue reading →

Ross, a defense attorney and regular reader of Drug WarRant (nice to know!), tipped me off to this story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Arnold Melnikoff is being fired for sloppy work. For years he’s been working for the state of … Continue reading →

“bullet” TalkLeft has the unbelievable story of Miguel Mendoza Palominos, a poor Mexican who just received 10 years in federal prison for the crime of being duped into being a patsy for a marijuana grow operation. So now we’ll spend … Continue reading →

From the Senlis Council release on the 17th: Canadian Senator, Pierre Claude Nolin, strongly criticised the US led drug war at a press conference in Vienna today, following an International Symposium on Global Drug Policy organised by The Senlis Council … Continue reading →

LastOneSpeaks and TalkLeft have been covering the stupid new bills being proposed for drugged driving testing. From NORML: Please Tell Congress To Identify Impaired Drivers, Not Marijuana Smokers. Urge Your Congressman To Reject H.R. 3907 And H.R. 3922 NORML needs … Continue reading →

…Seabrook, New Hampshire, which voted 1,521 to 464 for a new town ordinance requiring regular mandatory drug and alcohol testing of all town employees to be done at the local hospital. Now they’re having to face the consequences of their … Continue reading →

Hot off the electronic presses! The 2004 edition of Drug War Facts (pdf) is now available. Full of tons of useful material (you can also view individual portions at the web site).

I’m still catching up on my reading from the time I was gone. Here are a couple of things from TalkLeft that you shouldn’t miss. “bullet” TalkLeft has the info on a Denver Post series on the drug war. Most … Continue reading →

After the incredibly blatant statement by the General Accounting Office that the Drug Czar’s Office was allowed, nay encouraged, to lie (not that we were surprised by the lying part, just the willingness of the GAO to shrug their shoulders … Continue reading →

“Prohibition has never worked.” — Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson quoted last week in this Washington Post article