Unsurprisingly, a WaPo opinion columnist thinks that we need to really commit to more war in the War on Drugs™. You know, because over 40 years, an untold number of deaths, trillions of dollars, and zero effect on drug use (which doesn’t even question the idea that keeping people from getting high is a morally […]

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Anyone who thinks that Obama, because of his cool demeanor and past history of drug usage, would be more liberal with drug policy is a fucking idiot. Obama’s Drug Czar explains: Today, Californians recognized that legalizing marijuana will not make our citizens healthier, solve California’s budget crisis, or reduce drug related violence in Mexico [. […]

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Let’s continue to support the arrest hundreds of thousands of people a year, SWAT raids, and puppycide with our immoral War on Drugs so that we can maintain artificially high pot prices for a few people who operate in the dark. NPR: Another grower named Jay doesn’t want to use his last name because part […]

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The utterly failed War on Drugs (or as some might call it the War on People Who Use Drugs) can take full credit for a few creations. There was never such a thing as drug crime before prohibition. Nor was there such a thing as drug cartels or kingpins either. But the latest creation of […]

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The Federal Government (at Arizona): You cannot presume that you should enforce federal law, despite the explicit wishes of the residents of your state. The Federal Government, due to its behemoth size, slowly turns right while wiping drool from its chin and engages in a bout of fat-man breathing from the effort. It finally catches […]

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Ain’t government grand? Los Times de Nueva York: From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National Institutes of Health, even […]

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Hey, GOP fucktards! Haven’t I been hearing you lather on your small government sauce for the past 2 years? Or is the insistence that we arrest US citizens for committing drug “crimes” outside of the US, even in places where it isn’t a crime at all, so compelling that we should just forget about the […]

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According to the brand spanking new FBI crime statistics, we arrested a paltry 858,408 people last year for marijuana “crimes”, the vast majority of which were for simple possession. Anyone who would espouse the rightness of small government yet insist on the continuance of arresting and prosecuting those who engage in victimless “crimes” is a […]

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Fuck. Man falls and injures himself at home, police rush to the scene after paramedics are done and taze the man 3 times for resisting arrest (the only charge, so we’re clear).

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The Times, again, bending reality to fit their narrative of tax cuts adding to government debt: Republicans say cutting taxes would ease millions of families’ financial difficulties while encouraging the creation of jobs. But tax cuts mean higher government deficits, and Thursday’s report illustrated that clearly, estimating that extending the entire Bush tax cut package […]

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