Author Archives: Pete Guither

Two years ago I reported about a particularly heinous police action in Flint, Michigan. Innocent partygoers at Club What’s Next were strip searched and arrested for “frequenting a drug establishment” simply because someone else at the club possessed illegal drugs. … Continue reading →

Link The film’s visibility just raised a couple more notches. Think he’ll play Coleman?

“bullet” First the good: Via TalkLeft — Link: A federal judge threw out criminal charges today against an Oakland man accused of growing medical marijuana, ruling that authorities had vindictively prosecuted him because of remarks he made after he successfully … Continue reading →

HBO opens up a big new project tomorrow night: Addiction, a 14-part documentary produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism … Continue reading →

“bullet” RSA Drugs Report – so near and yet so far. The Transform Drug Policy Foundation Blog has updated and expanded its outstanding analysis of the new RSA report. “bullet” Another Walter Reed Scandal by Fred Gardner explores the other … Continue reading →

Good news. Some members of Congress have finally stopped being scared wimps long enough to actually acknowledge that the sentencing disparities between the two forms of cocaine are unfair and unjust. In the Senate, Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama is … Continue reading →

Maia Szalavitz does a great job of keeping the Richard Paey travesty in view (something lacking in the mainstream media). The latest news is that the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal (a story that appears to only … Continue reading →

Again, I don’t think he has any kind of real chance of winning the Presidency, but there’s a real possibility that his candidacy will force some important discussions. Even the article mentioning his announcement notes that: “He also supports medicinal … Continue reading →

NORML’s Paul Armentano really nails Mark Souder in the Fort Wayne, Indiana News Sentinel. Go read.

The President tried to paint a positive picture about the drug war we’ve funded in Colombia although security (despite 20,000 troops) wouldn’t let him stay in Bogota for more than seven hours. Peter Baker writes for the Washington Post: As … Continue reading →