Author Archives: Pete Guither

While the headline and overall tone of this AP article — Study: Marijuana potency increases in 2007 — is typical fear mongering and parroting of Drug Czar press releases, the Associated Press gets a point for at least talking about … Continue reading →

Bloomin’ Idiot of the day: Alan Lupo in the Boston Herald. Look at this — he has it. It almost appears that he understands it… “It doesn’t matter how many millions the government pours in here to stop drugs,” a … Continue reading →

If you support drug prohibition policies that make black market drug sales profitable, then you are encouraging violent behavior by criminals and supporting the funding of terrorists. This directly results in the deaths of thousands. You are a death enabler. … Continue reading →

Over at ACLU blog, Jag Davies talks about George Soros’ speech at the ACLU Membership Conference this week. Soros is, of course, a lightning rod for hatred from some on the neocon right — but he understands freedom better than … Continue reading →

Bob Barr gives a rare (for a poliician) public mea culpa in I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs — It’s A Failure over at the Huffington Post. I’ll admit it, just five years ago I was “Public Enemy … Continue reading →

A good editorial: Drug war squabble an ongoing fraud at the Santa Fe New Mexican. Seems no one on Capitol Hill wants to confront a reality: Drug trafficking, in Mexico and everywhere else illicit narcotics are grown, processed and moved … Continue reading →

Here’s another example of lawmakers trying to add extra pile-on charges in the drug war. Baltimore Councilman William Cole IV has introduced legislation adding a civil fine of $1,000 to anyone caught buying drugs if they live out of town. … Continue reading →

Here’s an article that really helps show the poverty of the drug prohibitionists’ line. Cartels driven by desire for big payoff We have our drug czar with the old smoke-a-joint-assassinate-a-Mexican nonsense. “The largest single source of their revenue is marijuana,” … Continue reading →

I’ve long considered the American Family Association to be one of those annoying, hateful and un-Christian organizations that we must tolerate as a free society. Now I add “clueless” to the list. I don’t watch any prime-time TV, so I … Continue reading →

Bizarre headline: Mexico accuses U.S. of meddling in drug war Meddling? Don’t they know that the drug war is a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. Government? It’s ours, baby. Sure, we license out some franchises — some directly, some … Continue reading →