Author Archives: Pete Guither

“bullet” Grits for Breakfast followed up on the atrocious drug task force story I talked about here earlier. Scott went to Palestine, Texas with a reporter to investigate the charges. Guess what? All 72 defendants are black. This looks like … Continue reading →

Via TalkLeft, this strange article in Pennsylvania: County elections officials confirmed yesterday that an undetermined number of students had their voter registration switched to Republican when they signed a petition supporting the legalization of medicinal marijuana in September. … The … Continue reading →

Midway Customs Agents Charged In Drug Ring. “We’ve successfully plugged a significant pipeline of drugs to Chicago and halted the flow of cash back to the suppliers,” said Richard W. Sanders, special agent in charge of the Chicago office of … Continue reading →

At long last, here is Drug WarRant’s analysis and endorsement for the Presidential race. I’ve taken a look at the two major party candidates in several specific areas (some of which have been ignored in other analyses I’ve seen), a … Continue reading →

Via Scott at Grits for Breakfast is what appears to be another Tulia-style outrage, foisted upon us by the ever-corrupt drug task force process. Following a two year investigation by local, state, and federal law enforcement, there has been a … Continue reading →

Vin Suprynowicz Las Vegas Review-Journal properly ridicules the government’s drug war, focusing on the problems (or interpretation thereof), in Afghanistan: A huge problem for — and with — the gang in charge in Washington these days is that they define … Continue reading →

Dan Forbes — one of the very best investigative journalists to take on the drug war — sent me an invitation to a book event. Not just any book event — this could be the most unusual and entertaining book … Continue reading →

This article in the SFGate notes that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer sided with two medical marijuana patients Wednesday in their U.S. Supreme Court battle with the Bush administration, arguing that patients who use locally grown marijuana in states that … Continue reading →

Scott knows I love it when the Drug Czar’s office gets trashed, so he sent me this gem from the Missoula Independent. Everyone has heard the joke about how you can tell when operatives from the Bush administration are lying … Continue reading →

TalkLeft notes that Edwards Calls for Crackdown on Meth Labs. Edwards said he and presidential nominee John Kerry would propose legislation to limit consumers to two standard packages per day of cold medicines that contain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient used in … Continue reading →