Author Archives: Pete

In today’s Tampa Tribune: Sarasota Cashes In On Forfeitures By Luring Drug Dealers To Area SARASOTA – Dealers from as far away as England, Venezuela and Panama are being lured to Sarasota to buy illegal drugs from undercover detectives posing … Continue reading →

Local, state and federal agents have been cutting down a marijuana field in Tulare County, California with 72,321 plants (wonder how much we paid for them to count all of those…) They estimate the value of the marijuana at $289,000,000.00 … Continue reading →

Reader disgusted vet has sent along this rant on the drug war. An excellent series of points, arranged in resolution form.

… in Little Rock on Sunday: Clark said he doesn’t condone widespread use of marijuana but would consider allowing it for pain relief.æ “We need to look at that and make some allowances one way or another,” the candidate said … Continue reading →

I have to admit that I’ve had a hard time getting very excited or passionate about the California Governor’s recall election. Amused, yes. Involved, no. (other than the fact that just about all the contenders support medical marijuana). So for … Continue reading →

This is the slogan on one of the ads from Change The Climate, a marijuana policy reform organization. The current repertoire of ads (available at their site), include the slogans Enjoy Better Sex! Legalize and Tax Marijuana Save our Taxes! … Continue reading →

Maybe it’s because I’ve only been doing this blog for just over 2 months, but I still get a kick out of milestones and new links/visitors, because it means that more people are reading about the failed Drug War. So … Continue reading →

I get a lot of visitors to Drug WarRant. It can be a bit of a roller coaster, from the over 2,000 on Saturday when Metafilter gave this blog a mention, to 0 yesterday and earlier today when salonblogs’ server … Continue reading →

A big hello to Vice Squad — a relatively new blog of “Explorations of public policy concerning alcohol, nicotine, other drugs, prostitution, gambling, pornography, ….” where you’ll find some excellent academic analyses and well thought out reponses to the prohibitionist … Continue reading →

Via NORML today: One-Third Of Docs Back Prescription Cannabis, Survey Says (pdf) Wellington, New Zealand: One out of three New Zealand doctors say they would prescribe medicinal marijuana if it were legal to do so, according to a random survey … Continue reading →