Archive for the 'drug war' Category
Hey, Look! The Democrats Do Something Good for a Change!
Via Dan Savage, the feds end the ban on needle exchanges:
For years, needle exchange programs in three dozen states have provided clean needles to intravenous drug users as a way to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. But the programs have relied solely on state and local funding because of a longtime ban [...]
Always Late: Conservatives Finally Admit What Lefties Have Known for Decades
A video that’s appropriate in more ways than one: Always Late, played by a Wurlitzer
Ross Douthat takes a look at the US prison system and realizes something that lefties like myself have recognized and argued for years: incarcerating anyone possible for any piddling reason imaginable has been a disaster:
2.3 million Americans are behind bars. Our [...]
On Not Seeing One’s Own Nose
Item: Marijuana farming rebounds in economic hard times
Marijuana farming rebounds in economic hard times
Growth industry: Recession blamed as marijuana farming increases from California to Appalachia
Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country’s top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.
The [...]
Consequences of Ctriminalized Marijuana
Until it’s taxed and regulated, shit like this will keep happening as Mexican drug cartels move into our national forests to grow pot:
Investigators said Tuesday they believe marijuana growers with possible ties to Mexican drug cartels caused an 88,650-acre wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County, and there are many more pot farms hidden in remote [...]
Legalize Marijuana
Greenwald on Drug Decrim
I couldn’t express it better myself:
Mysteries of logical reasoning
(1) Anyone who favors marijuana legalization just wants to get high without being hassled, and anyone who favors drug decriminalization generally is or wants to be a drug user.
(2) Anyone who opposes a return to alcohol prohibition is almost certainly an out-of-control drunk.
(3) Anyone who cares about [...]
Saying One Thing, Doing Another: Not Change I Can Believe In
Obama, last month:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sending strong signals that President Obama – who as a candidate said states should be allowed to make their own rules on medical marijuana – will end raids on pot dispensaries in California.
Asked at a Washington news conference Wednesday about Drug Enforcement Administration raids in California since [...]
Christine Flowers Is, as Usual, an Idiot.
One of the most tiresome things about blogging is that you continually have to respond to the same cast of hackneyed, boring, wrong-headed, disingenuous, and just plain stupid writers over and over and over again. case in point: Christine Flowers’ typically hackneyed, boring, wrong-headed, disingenuous, and just plain stupid column on marijuana legalization today. [...]
Read More..>>Another Reason to Decriminalize Marijuana
Anyone else keeping up with the “Tainted Justice” series in the Daily News? It’s an ongoing investigation looking into a corrupt cop, his informer, and the havoc that has been wreaked as a result of their collusion. The city has to revisit “scores of drug cases”, and is probably exposed to quite a few [...]
Read More..>>Loretta Sanchez: Maybe It’s Time to Legalize Marijuana
gee, ya think?
more at daily Kos on how the drug war has failed, how mexico’s drug war is spilling over into our borders, and much more.
If we legalized marijuana, we would create an entirely new revenue stream, take pressure off our police and free them to go after real criminals like rapists and murderers, and [...]
