Author Archives: Pete

Nice piece at The Age today by Michael Coulter: The long-running war on drugs has failed: we need to legalise now It would be nice to say that the war on drugs had achieved nothing. The truth is far worse. … Continue reading →

Cute cover of Time Magazine with “The Highly Divisive, Curiously Underfunded, Strangely Promising, World of Pot Science” or The Great Pot Experiment by Bruce Barcott and Michael Scherer. Not a bad article about the politicization of pot science, although to … Continue reading →

How many times have we heard that? “We don’t make the laws; we just enforce them.” Of course, that’s complete crap, as any of us who have attended a legislative session about medical marijuana legalization know – seeing the law … Continue reading →

When I write on Facebook, it’s an entirely different audience — coming mostly from my work — so I write on a variety of subjects and I’m careful not to inundate them with drug war rants all the time. In … Continue reading →

Brilliant! Via Tom Angell at Marijuana.com One of the U.S.’s foremost drug policy reform organizations is lending a tongue-in-cheek assist to the country’s top anti-drug enforcement agency. The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is taking out a mock “Help Wanted” ad … Continue reading →

Nice little article in Time by Aileen Teague, a Ph.D. history student, about the impact on Mexico of the U.S. war on drugs. How Our War on Drugs Undermines Mexico But here’s the key point: And yet last year’s federal … Continue reading →

This article is nothing new to us, but it’s a story that needs to be continually circulated so the rest of the population starts getting a little bit more pissed off about it. DEA to traveler: Thanks, I’ll take that … Continue reading →

I know we’ve got a lot of veterans here, and this one is really going to make your head explode… GOP congressman warns pot is making our veterans psychotic In a debate on the House floor over the Department of … Continue reading →

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. It’s the end of the semester and I’ve been going non-stop with a variety of events and responsibilities. It’s great fun, but I’m completely wiped out. It’ll ease up after Commencement this coming … Continue reading →

David Simon has an outstanding interview with the Marshall Project. Nothing new to us here, but very well said… David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish I guess there’s an awful lot to understand and I’m not sure I understand all of … Continue reading →