Author Archives: Pete Guither

Tarika Wison is still dead LIMA, Ohio (AP) – An outside review has concluded that a Lima police officer didn’t violate any department rules in the fatal shooting of unarmed woman during a drug raid. Let’s see if I’ve got … Continue reading →

via Cato is this article: President Manuel Zelaya proposed legalizing drug use, which he said would free up Honduras’s financial resources and defang international traffickers. “The trade of arms, drugs and people … are scourges on the international economy, and … Continue reading →

“bullet” Via Transform, comes the interesting case of a man who is taking his drug charges in the U.K. to the High Court on the basis that it’s an arbitrary abuse of power to charge him for cannabis when alcohol … Continue reading →

Link The U.S. deputy drug czar will be in Grand Rapids Monday to campaign against an initiative on the state’s Nov. 4 ballot that would legalize marijuana use for serious medical conditions such as cancer and glaucoma. Call your Congressman … Continue reading →

… because we need one. Go at it. “bullet” “drcnet”

New Zealand Police have hired one of the country’s top lawyers to investigate a former officer’s stunning confession that he lied in court – and wrongfully sent at least 150 people to prison. Patrick O’Brien wrote to Chief Justice Dame … Continue reading →

Remember the Peacemaker? This is the Peacekeeper. Don’t they just love their war toys? Via Radley.

The contempt for the rule of law, the abandonment of Constitutional principles, the foundation-laying toward an extreme and entrenched Authoritarian government — these are things that drug policy reform advocates have seen happening for many years in conjunction with the … Continue reading →

Interesting press release about the problems of field drug test kits that are so ubiquitous, yet keep giving false positives and really messing up people’s lives. However, there is now conclusive evidence the field drug tests falsely indicate the presence … Continue reading →

Dan Gardner slams the UNODC This failure has many causes but a key one is the simple fact that the primary source of information about the drug trade is the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. For the UNODC, … Continue reading →