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The word is that Colombian President Uribe is going to face new challenges when facing a Democratic House as he lobbies for more drug war funding. Chris Kraul writes in the Los Angeles Times: When Republicans were in control of … Continue reading →

Your tax dollars at work. Decades of taxpayer money spent, poor farmers’ lives ruined, excessive violence… And drug war success in Colombia is measured this way… The results of the 2006 U.S. Government survey of cultivation in Colombia indicate that … Continue reading →

You cannot fight a military war against drugs. All that you will do is destroy your own country. Three Mexican army officers and 16 soldiers were ordered detained Monday in connection with the weekend shooting deaths of two women and … Continue reading →

“bullet” thehim’s Shooting Fish in a Barrel discusses a High School undercover operation (where the officer approaches students asking them to procure drugs for them) and just how ridiculous it is to assume that arrests in that situation have any … Continue reading →

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“bullet” LA Times editorializes: Ending the Marijuana Monopoly: Federal Officials Should Allow Competition in Growing the Drug for Needed Studies on Its Medical Use. Good. Puts more pressure on DEA bad girl Michele Leonhart, who has to decide how to … Continue reading →

I’m very busy in New York, seeing shows and giving walking tours all over the city. I’ve brought 79 people from Central Illinois to the city this year for a theatre trip. Saw Grey Gardens last night, Frost/Nixon and Year … Continue reading →

This editorial in the Edmonton Journal (Canada) responds to the suggestion that Harper will pursue a U.S.-style war on drugs. If that is the case, it would be an unfortunate mistake with predictable and very disappointing outcomes. While Washington from … Continue reading →

In today’s Independent on Sunday (UK), Hugh O’Shaughnessy reports: America has spent billions battling the drug industry in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru. And the result? Production as high as ever, street prices at a low, and the governments of the … Continue reading →

This comment from kaptinemo is worth repeating: The goal was never to do the impossible, namely, eliminate illicit drugs from urban populations. The goal very simply was to gradually acclimate citizens to increased inroads into their civil liberties, numbing them … Continue reading →