Author Archives: Servetus

Lawfare turns laws into weapons. No better example of lawfare exists than the never-ending saga of the South American Drug War. Drug lawfare is waged by the DEA and the U.S. Congress to protect oil, gas, mineral, and timber extraction … Continue reading →

Brian C. Muraresku’s just-released book Immortality Key: The Secret History of a Religion with No Name explores the history of how psychoactive substances shaped the development of Christianity and Western civilization. Armed with the new science of archeological chemistry that … Continue reading →

A small Nevada gambling resort just south of the Idaho state border called Jackpot intends to set up recreational cannabis dispensaries. An editorial by Stephen Hartgen in an Idaho newspaper exposes the impending peril and doom Idaho residents and its … Continue reading →

On July 22, Donald Trump called for a “surge of federal law enforcement into American communities plagued by violent crime.” Seeking to exploit crime-drama distractions prior to the presidential election, U.S. Attorney General William J Barr sent thirty-five federal special … Continue reading →

A Mississippi federal judge has challenged the qualified immunity defense that police officers use to deflect responsibility for their degrading treatment of suspects and innocent citizens. In Jamison v. McClendon, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves recently concluded that Officer … Continue reading →

Sharp legal and social distinctions are often made between medicinal and recreational marijuana, with indistinguishable recreational marijuana typically having a dark cloud cast over it. Why the distinction? At universities in Zurich and The Netherlands the need for hedonism and … Continue reading →

It’s as if everything the drug war touches is corrupted or destroyed. The U.S. child foster care system is no exception. From 2000 to 2011, researchers estimate one third of children in the U.S. were subject to a child neglect … Continue reading →

A study headed by Elizabeth O’Connor, PhD, at the Kaiser Permanente Evidence-based Practice Center in Portland, Oregon, has bad news for drug counselors and the youth-focused drug prevention industry: 26-MAY-2020–Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has concluded … Continue reading →

Donald Trump has ordered the aerial fumigation of Colombian coca fields using the same controversial glyphosate herbicide employed in the past. The Latin American human rights organization WOLA is raising objections to more fumigation: On February 10, the Colombian government … Continue reading →

Someone forgot to inform the federal government that drug traffickers are clever and resourceful: The ladders appear to be made by hand from two poles of 3/8-inch rebar and four thinner poles, fitted with steps and bent over at the … Continue reading →