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Should medical marijuana be kept from minors at all costs? Why is it that pharmacists can dispense amphetamines without getting busted, but legal operators who dispense medical marijuana face prison time? Why do armed federal agents persist in raiding California? … Continue reading →

Vincent Hodgkiss, dead, from a paramilitary-style drug raid. Details are still sketchy, but it’s clearly a death that didn’t have to happen. People are finally starting to ask the right questions, though. [Thanks, Allan]

“bullet” Radley Balko has discovered some potentially earth-shattering information in the Ryan Frederick case. If the police were, in fact, directing or encouraging criminals to break into private homes in order to search for evidence, then some major heads need … Continue reading →

“bullet” Scott Morgan has the surreal posts: Vietnam Orders Police to Win the Drug War by August and People are Getting Themselves Arrested Just So They Can Sell Drugs in Jail “bullet” Grant Smith at D’Alliance has a wonderful account … Continue reading →

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 →