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Christmas Greetings
Via Transform I’d recommend buying hemp products for your Christmas presents instead.
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Wrong-address raids reaching wider audience?
Another wrong-address raid, as a result of bad informant information, took place in Minneapolis earlier this week. With her six kids and husband tucked into bed, Yee Moua was watching TV in her living room just after midnight when she … Continue reading
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Odds and Ends
“bullet” Tom Angell has been looking over the big appropriations bill in Congress. Here’s what he’s found so far (of course, this could still change). Drug Czar’s “anti-drug” ad budget is being slashed down to $60 million next year (down … Continue reading
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Word of the Day: Fungible
noun: 1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. In an interesting article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune about the fear-mongering over the retroactivity regarding the slight reduction in crack cocaine sentencing, this caught my attention: [Federal judge Ruben] Castillo, who helped … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! … Continue reading
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Drug war and terrorism war as excuses for expanded government surveillance
Interesting article in tomorrow’s New York Times: Wider Spying Fuels Aid Plan for Telecom Industry by Eric Lightblau, James Risen and Scott Shane. We’ve long talked about the increase in government abuse of Constitutional rights and privacy in the name … Continue reading
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December 15, 1791 (updated)
Bill of Rights ratified Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to … Continue reading
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Prohibition and deterrence
Politicians have the answer — the magic demand-side solution to creating a drug-free world. It’s a simple concept called deterrence. If there’s an activity with which you disapprove, all you have to do is find the right penalty, and people … Continue reading
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Letting go of prohibition propaganda
In the course of my wandering across the net searching for interesting things to share with you, I occasionally come upon some minor thing that strikes me, maybe in comments somewhere. That happened with this post at a site I … Continue reading
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