Isn’t it great that the very weapons which we gave to those in South America in order to fight communism during the Cold War are now being used against us by violent drug cartels? Will we ever learn that when we give weapons away to foriegners in order to fight some ideological cause, such as […]
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Apparently libertards are all for drug laws emanating at the federal level. I wonder how quickly their position will change when asked about drug laws in relation to California? Oh, wait. I guess I don’t have to wait too long at all.
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‘Ain’t prohibition great?
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Justin Scheck via The Wall Street Journal: Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, his budget under pressure in a weak economy, has laid off staff, reduced patrols and even released jail inmates. But there’s one mission on which he’s spending more than in recent years: pot busts. The reason is simple: If he steps up his […]
For just one second, I’d like you to imagine a land in which you had your rights as a parent taken away for taking legally prescribed medications. “No way!” most would say, “That place is fucking gulag!” And I would absolutely agree. But apparently we have such a hard-on for the War on Drugs in […]
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Jim Warren of The Lexington Herald-Leader on the finding of Moonshine in rural Kentucky: Moonshine whiskey is an illegal product that Kentucky was once well known for producing. But nowadays marijuana has largely replaced moonshine as a problem for law enforcement officers. Too bad the solution to the problem has been lost in translation.
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Kareem Fahim via The New York Times: The government has not said whether any of the people killed by security forces were armed. And although almost a thousand people were arrested and detained for days, all but 10 of them were eventually released without charge. A side note to the collateral damage in Jamaica as […]
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Though it certainly shouldn’t be taken as an indication that the war on drugs will be coming to a close, this new memo from Attorney General Holder is a step in the right direction. Mike Scarcella via The National Law Journal: Sentencing Commission Vice Chairman William Carr Jr. said the Holder memo “clearly” gives more […]
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Kareem Fahim via The New York Times: After five days of sporadic fighting in the capital, the Jamaican police have still not found the object of their raid, a gang leader wanted in the United States on gun and drug charges, but the death toll has risen to at least 70 and complaints are mounting […]
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Gene Healy via The Washingtion Examiner: Like many middle-class kids, the president briefly flirted with drug culture before putting away childish things and becoming a high achiever. (Indeed, looking at what he has achieved since, you sometimes wish pot killed motivation as effectively as drug-war propagandists claim.) The president lacks the moral authority to lock […]
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