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The U.S. drug prohibitionists are now reeling from a 1-2-3 punch. 1. We start the salvo by hitting the DEA in the Washington Post and elsewhere by tying prohibition with failure and a profitable black market. 2. Afghan opium hits … Continue reading →

A nice feature in today’s Drug War Chronicle: SSDP, Drug War Rant Blog Score Media Hit With Attack on DEA Drug-Terror Exhibit.

For those who can’t get enough of the Museum of Science and Industry saga and have nothing better to do — here’s a nice long letter (pdf) I wrote to the legal counsel of the Chicago Park District (which owns … Continue reading →

I’ve never gone the advertising route on this site, so my first impulse was to discard the email I got today. But then I thought about it and realized I kind of liked the idea. Product placement on Drug WarRant! … Continue reading →

Afghan opium cultivation hits a record Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press. […] Gen. Khodaidad, … Continue reading →

“bullet” Reefer Gladness, in which Philadelphia City Paper’s Brian Hickey discovers (and falls in love with) Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. I realized this LEAP thing can’t be as easily dismissed as a bunch of hacky-sack-circling, NORML-pamphlet-pushing hippies from Swarthmore. By … Continue reading →

Say goodbye to Sierra de la Macarena. Here’s how you lose a forest… Defying immutable economic laws, governments prohibit a popular drug, making the illegal production and distribution obscenely profitable. Government compounds the problem by attempting to go after the … Continue reading →

A number of people have wanted to know how the passing out of flyers went at the museum on Friday. So I’ve got a little story to tell. And you’ll learn… – That the museum personnel know very little about … Continue reading →

In today’s Congressional Quarterly (sorry, no link – subscription only) Drug Dissenters Make Terror Link by Shawn Zeller, CQ Staff For the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks, federal drug warriors have publicized the ways that ill-gotten narcotics profits … Continue reading →

We’ve had a good start with our response to the DEA exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. I know a lot of you wanted to do something to help, but aren’t available to pass out flyers. Here’s your … Continue reading →