Monthly Archives: August 2010

A very good post by David Bratzer at the LEAP blog: Black police officers? You can’t talk about them here Definitely worth reading. I’d like to focus on one part of that post, a response David once got from “Inspector … Continue reading →

This is just unbelievable… NV judge orders drug offender write report on pot A Nevada judge has issued a homework assignment in the form of an unusual sentence for a 25-year-old Sacramento man who sold marijuana to a police informant … Continue reading →

Nope, not talking about the Showtime series. Just like the word. Californians must look at science of marijuana by Timmen Cermak, president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. Cermak supports Prop 19, but is also full of crap, looking … Continue reading →

A little Sunday reading for you: Liberty Lost: The Moral Case for Marijuana Law Reform by Eric D. Blumenson (Suffolk University Law School) and (Eva S. Nilsen) Boston University School of Law. Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 09-20. … Continue reading →

In drug war, the beginning of the end? by Bernd Debusmann of Reuters. Excellent OpEd. Between 1971, when Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs, and 2008, the latest year for which official figures are available, American law enforcement officials … Continue reading →

New York Times A national group of African-American law enforcement officers has endorsed Proposition 19, a ballot measure that would tax and regulate marijuana in California. The National Black Police Association, which has more than two dozen chapters across the … Continue reading →

The Daily Caller reports that recent efforts to get Obama to reconsider his choice of keeping Michele Leonhart as the head of the DEA have failed. But according to a senior White House official, not even the combined grassroot powers … Continue reading →

The Drug Czar’s “blog” continues its orgy of back-to-school “advice,” this time from Assistant Deputy Secretary Kevin Jennings. It may be obvious but, as students across the country head back to school and colleges this fall, it bears repeating: young … Continue reading →

California is a state in financial crisis. California also has the largest prison population in the country, after unprecedented growth in the past two decades. And California’s cost per inmate is $45,045 compared to the national average of $28,689. This … Continue reading →

At the Drug Czar’s “blog,” the ONDCP’s Ben Tucker gives advice to students heading off to college. Much of the advice is fine and appropriate: “Get to class on time, get to know your professors, be respectful of your peers … Continue reading →