Author Archives: Pete Guither

Jeanne Lenzer with the British Medical Journal (with follow-ups by World Net Daily) has a strong report: Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness. The sweeping mental health initiative that President Bush will unveil in July is … Continue reading →

Via TalkLeft comes this AP report: n a scathing criticism of the system used to punish federal crimes, a judge on Monday called the government’s sentencing guidelines unconstitutional, saying they unfairly limit the authority of judges. In a series of … Continue reading →

See Last One Speaks for this travesty: In yet another example of forfeiture run amok, 81 year old David Davies, a WWII vet and his wife Florence had their life’s worth of assets seized because their son was storing 19 … Continue reading →

Walter in Denver notes Why The Drug War Is Doomed To Fail He points to a Rocky Mountain News article which pretty well indicates that people will always find a drug of choice, legal or illegal: Colorado calls to the … Continue reading →

Jason at Positive Liberty sent me this bizarre item in The Guardian. As part of a long story about unusual and deadly plants in a castle garden… ‡ Cannabis sativa Indian hemp or marijuana (not to mention pot, dope, spliff, … Continue reading →

Joel Miller’s article Why Drug Cops Can’t Win” at World Net Daily is an interesting read. (Joel Miller is also author of the new book “Bad Trip: How the Drug War is Destroying America.”) In the World Net Daily article, … Continue reading →

Nice column by Dean Becker in this month’s The Free Press (Houston, TX) For 89 1/2 years, we have escalated the mechanisms, the bloodshed, the deaths, disease and misery of our nation through our policy of “drug prohibition”.æ Based on … Continue reading →

I spent the day yesterday with my Dad. I didn’t have the time — there’s so much to do — but I drove the three hours each way, and helped him fix the settings on his new computer, and we … Continue reading →

Via TalkLeft Not surprisingly, Texas has enacted another dumb, probably unconstitutional law–delivery of a controlled substance to a minor–via the womb. It’s now a felony to smoke pot while pregnant –punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Alma Baker … Continue reading →

Via Chris and Sam.com comes an article in the Macomb Daily: “Sheriff gets armored vehicles” Macomb County’s “newest” weapon against crime is 44 years old, weighs a beefy 10 tons, travels only 3 miles on a gallon of gas, sits … Continue reading →