Author Archives: Pete Guither

O’Reilly is against open societies. World O’Crap notes that Bill needs to stop going to Doors’ concerts. Basically, Bill seems to believe that we need to keep arresting 750,000 people for marijuana each year — otherwise inconsiderate men will blow … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) comes this commentary by Barry R. McCaffrey and Mitchell S. Rosenthal. Driven in large measure by harsh drug laws, our prison population has grown from 200,000 to two million over the past 30 … Continue reading →

My original post back in January… From the Oregon Register-Guard: [Kari] Rein, 42, and her husband James Jungwirth, 41, a U.S. citizen, have lived in Williams, near Grants Pass, for 15 years. They run an herb and seaweed harvesting business … Continue reading →

A reminder that Guest Drug WarRants are always welcome. Here’s a new addition – a piece on drugs and sports.

David Gross sent me a note that I thought I’d share with you: A lot of people don’t know that cannabis had a real rennaissance in the United States before the sixties… the 1860s, I mean. To American marijuana enthusiasts, … Continue reading →

Via Hit and Run, Nick Gillespie in the Washington Post reviews a new book by Martin Torgoff: Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 Each year, police make more than 700,000 marijuana-related arrests in the … Continue reading →

Unresolved Problems Segment Montel Williams on medical marijuana Bill speaks to talk show host Montel Williams about medical marijuana and how that usage could lead the way for the drug being fully legalized. I can’t watch it, so someone let … Continue reading →

A recap of some interesting articles from today and earlier this week — “bullet” A nice little piece on Valerie Corral in today’s Los Angeles Daily News: Tiny Pot Protagonist Beat Ashcroft In Court SANTA CRUZ, Calif.  — What do … Continue reading →

Via Grassroots Buzz comes this horrible news from Drug War Chronicles. First, the drug testers came for the chess players, and we did nothing. Now the inexorable, totalitarian logic of drug prohibition has invaded the laid-back domain of competitive Frisbee, … Continue reading →

One of the many problems with abstinence-only education is that it is all or nothing. It is sending an amateur across a tight-rope without a net, under the philosophy that if you give them a net it might encourage them … Continue reading →