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Via TalkLeft comes this article about an upcoming showdown (which I paraphrase): Karzai: “You tortured prisoners!” U.S.: “Oh yeah? Well… you have poppies!”

Freeport is a town of about 26,000 in the middle of a large agricultural area in Northern Illinois. And yet, the Freeport Journal Standard editorial today nails Congress as far as mandatory minimums and the drug war: Mandatory Minimums a … Continue reading →

Assistant Editor Michael Smith has it right in today’s Galveston County Daily News: Some in the Texas Legislature think the police ought to know how much cold and allergy medicine you’re buying. They want consumers’ names entered in a log … Continue reading →

“bullet” The Whizzinator: A House Panel’s No. 1 Priority — that’s right, our tax dollars are spent investigating ways to outlaw a fake penis that’s used to fool drug tests … The Whizzinator isn’t quite the gold standard in athletic … Continue reading →

Interesting analysis of the Afghanistan situation by David Bosco at Slate.

Adam wrote and asked me to take on the OpEd in the Washington Post: Cutting Marijuana Use Calls for More Than Tough Policing by Joseph Califano The increased potency of today’s marijuana and the greater knowledge we have of the … Continue reading →

Marco wrote in to tell me about his experience being one of the chosen. Yes, he was selected to participate in a paid survey — the kind that ends up part of the government’s statistics in the war on drugs. … Continue reading →

USA Today gave a fairly scathing editorial against our approach to marijuana enforcement, drawing upon the Sentencing Project study. Definitely worth a read. The conclusion? It’s time for a serious debate on whether massive arrests of low-level users are worth … Continue reading →

From today’s Roll Call: Potheads vs. Narcs by Mary Ann Akers It would have been the zaniest game of the softball season. But it seems the Narcs are too chicken to play a bunch of stoners. The One Hitters, the … Continue reading →