Author Archives: Pete Guither

“bullet” Christopher sent me this AP story: College towns lead in marijuana use (talk about headlines stating the obvious). The interesting point — Christopher notes that if the numbers are true in the article, then 17.5 million Americans smoked pot … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Jeralyn Merritt and the always outstanding TalkLeft. TalkLeft is three today, which makes it one of the wise old elders in blog years. TalkLeft is the most prominent blog on the left that consistently and thoroughly covers the … Continue reading →

Here are some of the highlights from the Hinchey debate from the actual transcripts (instead of my hurried scribbling in yesterday’s posts): — Continue Reading —

From the Denver Post, Commerce Clause is Infinitely Elastic by Ed Quillen. He spends the first part of the column examining Wickard and commerce clause history trying to find how Raich and Monson’s activity of growing their own could reach … Continue reading →

…comes from reader BD in comments: Isn’t it interesting that Angel Raich, totally cognizant and aware of her pain, didn’t arouse as much sympathy from our public servants as Terri Schiavo did?

[First off — welcome to post number 1,000 at Drug WarRant. What a ride! When I started this blog just under two years ago, I expected to be posting once or twice a week. Obviously I got a little more … Continue reading →

Official vote breakdown here. The Drug Policy Alliance also has a list of how the Representatives voted. You can send them a message saying what you thought of their vote at that link. But don’t stop there. Here’s a letter … Continue reading →

[See full proceedings through the Hinchey Amendment in the post below] In this post, we’ll continue to watch items in the proceedings. “bullet” C.L. “Butch” Otter (Idaho) has put forward an amendment to restrict the “sneak-and-peek” search warrants and brings … Continue reading →

The House of Representatives is about to continue with consideration of amendments to the Justice Appropriations bill. The Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment (preventing the use of federal funds to harass sick people in medical marijuana states) will most likely be considered today, … Continue reading →

Looks clear to me: A random sample of 732 registered voters nationwide was interviewed by telephone June 8-11, 2005 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C. Margin for error is plus or minus 3.7%. The survey was commissioned … Continue reading →