Author Archives: Pete Guither

John Carnevale, who worked with four drug czars in the past as budget director, criticizes the ONDCP in the Huffington Post. (This isn’t the first time — he has previously accused Walters of simplifying data.) Carnevale criticizes the over-reliance on … Continue reading →

Serving and protecting (via Radley) A confidential informant and an undercover detective waited inside the restaurant [McDonald’s] to sell Dixon an ounce of cocaine and 100 Ecstasy pills for $950. More than a dozen officers waited outside, including Lt. Steve … Continue reading →

Radley Balko asks the question over at Fox News: – In 1989, your wife Cindy became addicted to the prescription drugs Percocet and Vicodin. Eventually, she began stealing medication from the non-profit medical charity she ran to assist the victims … Continue reading →

Economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw has an OpEd in the New York Times What If the Candidates Pandered to Economists? It’s a light piece about how the campaign might be different if McCain and Obama were trying to court the … Continue reading →

“bullet” Grits for Breakfast reports on a police officer’s approach to conducting his job Investigators found that the sergeant had used drug evidence with the wrong cases, disposed of narcotics evidence and improperly stored evidence envelopes in his desk. The … Continue reading →

“bullet” Graham Boyd continues his reports from Vienna conference on drug policy, including some intriguing stuff regarding attempts from the ONDCP office to sabotage their efforts. Day Two and Day Three “bullet” U of Central Florida column by Ben Badio: … Continue reading →

My show opens in Chicago tomorrow evening. “Unsex Me Here” – a Living Canvas production – running July 11 through August 16, Fridays and Saturdays at 11 pm at National Pastime Theater, 4139 N. Broadway in Chicago. Powerful movement, mesmerizing … Continue reading →

Radley Balko has the story of another drug raid gone wrong, this one in Troy, New York, terrifying a young single mother — no guns, no drugs. Apparently it was based on a bad tip, with no follow-up buys or … Continue reading →

The ACLU is presenting this week at the Beyond 2008 Forum in Vienna, as part of the input toward the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 10 year evaluation of world drug policy. Remember, 10 years ago, the UN … Continue reading →