Author Archives: Pete Guither

At the Rocky Mountain News: Legal Pot Activists Angry at Police At LEAP: Heartless Feds, Apparently Heartless City Cops, Too …two years ago Denver voters approved a city ordinance that allows possession of less than one ounce of marijuana for … Continue reading →

Via Scott Morgan: New anti-marijuana ads in Australia are trying to be hip using lines like: “Pot. It mightn’t kill you, but it could turn you into a dickhead” Hmmm… Is that true? So I decided to check it out. … Continue reading →

“bullet” LEAP’s Howard Woolridge has a great OpEd in the Huntington, WV Herald Dispatch: Legalizing drugs is better way to fight problem.Update: That article appears to be gone from the paper’s website, but it’s available here. “bullet” With friends like … Continue reading →

Just in case you forgot… TEHERAN – Ten people have died after drinking homemade hooch in a holy city in Iran, where the consumption of all alcohol is banned, the Kayhan newspaper reported on Sunday. […] Home distilled spirits sell … Continue reading →

If you want to somehow try to scare people into not using drugs (and it probably won’t work no matter what approach you try), the absolute worst idea you could imagine is… a wax museum. But that’s what they did … Continue reading →

Andrew Sullivan on the Drug War and Football: More pharmaceutical double-standards with respect to pain-relief. It seems any addictive pain-killer is fine with the NFL. Oxycontin? Have a Limbaugh-sized dose. But marijuana? You’ll be suspended. How often does our irrational … Continue reading →

The editorial staff at the Austin Peay State University (TN) All State like to use the word “logic,” but it’s clear that the university has utterly failed to teach their students what that word actually means. Link [Warning: Do not … Continue reading →

First they came for our baking soda. Then they came for our tomatoes. PULLMAN, Wash. — A Pullman landlord notified police about a grow lamp in a closet, and police got a search warrant for a drug raid. Eight officers … Continue reading →

In this week’s Drug War Chronicle, there’s one thing in particular I wanted to point out: Somewhat lost in the news of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signing a new medical marijuana law, is the fact that he also signed … Continue reading →