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I haven’t talked about Rep. Mark Souder for awhile. For those who don’t know, he is the one who came up with the notion of adding a question regarding drug convictions to student financial aid forms. The stupidity of this … Continue reading →

Julian Sanchez at Hit and Run has further thoughts on Caballes… A few fairly obvious problems occur to me belatedly. The first is that to the extent that law enforcement officers now feel increased license to do indiscriminate sweeps, the … Continue reading →

Over at The American Street, Kevin Haydon poses a difficult question about how someone opposed to the drug war is supposed to deal with a family member who has willfully let his addiction damage those around him. A spirited discussion … Continue reading →

I missed it. He must have mentioned it when I ran to the bathroom for a minute. You know, the State of the Union… the part where he talked about cutting all those wasteful drug war programs to reduce the … Continue reading →

The Attorneys General of Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, … Continue reading →

______, who says she is a friend of the Noel family, wrote to say how appalled she was at most of the news coverage of the Cheryl Noel tragedy. She has written a letter to the Dundalk Eagle (the one … Continue reading →

Medical Marijuana is back in the Legislature in Illinois. HB 407 has been introduced in the House of Representatives, sponsored by Representative Larry McKeon. Creates the Medical Cannabis Act. Provides that a person who has been diagnosed by a physician … Continue reading →

I was working on a post about a billboard that was put up in my town, but then it came down after a very short time. Could it be that others here found it as offensive as I did? This … Continue reading →

[Sadly, another one to add to my Drug War Victims page] Cheryl Noel, 44, was shot to death by police in her upstairs bedroom last Friday. Details of the raid are just now fully surfacing, and there are still more … Continue reading →

Kaptinemo always has good comments, and got me going with this one Pete, there’s another dimension to your comment, one that I am sure you’ve thought about from time to time: why has the veracity of the prohib’s blather never, … Continue reading →