Author Archives: Pete Guither

Link. Mark R. Trouville, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office: “This ain’t your grandfather’s or your father’s marijuana,” Trouville said. “This will hurt you. This will addict you. This will kill you.” Perhaps Trouville would care to … Continue reading →

Wow. Booker redirects his anger at the war on drugs This is big. He is an angrier man now. And the focus of that anger is a public policy that he believes is ruining his city and threatening his hopes … Continue reading →

Tranform Drug Policy Foundation NEWS RELEASE On Tuesday June 26th the UN office of drugs and crime (UNODC) will celebrate annual World Anti-Drugs Day. Transform Drug Policy Foundation, the UK’s leading independent centre of expertise on drug policy and law … Continue reading →

I ran across this singularly bad (and ignorant) piece of political poetry, supposedly about the drug war, and it got me thinking that maybe we have some poets in our midst who would like to try their hand at some … Continue reading →

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The Drug Czar’s latest “report” on teens, drugs and violence is the usual mishmash of distorted statistics and implied conclusions not drawn from the data, all in an attempt to scare people. Today ONDCP released a new Special Report showing … Continue reading →

Radley Balko’s doing some great stuff. Today, he’s testifying “as part of House Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott’s ‘Crime Summit.’ … topic is the militarization of domestic police departments.” There’s nobody better to talk about that subject. And on July … Continue reading →

“bullet” Brian Bennett challenges the drug policy reform establishment again with The Catch-22 of Drug Law Reform “bullet” The so-called Drug Czar uses his so-called “blog” to brag Governor of Connecticut Vetoes So-Called “Medical” Marijuana Bill. He’s particularly good at … Continue reading →

Via Vote Hemp: On June 18, 2007 the two North Dakota farmers granted state hemp farming licenses, Rep. David Monson and Wayne Hauge, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in an effort to … Continue reading →