If he keeps this up, the Drug Warriors are going to have John Tierney’s head on a most wanted sign: When the Supreme Court ruled in June that states could not legalize marijuana for medical uses, Justice Stephen Breyer voted with the majority. But during oral arguments, he suggested an alternative way for patients to …
The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
The War on Pain Relief Goes Digital
And yet another Bush-signed bill I don’t like: President Bush signed into law a bill to create electronic monitoring programs to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs in all 50 states. The new law creates a grant program for states to create databases and enhance existing ones in hopes of ending the practice of “doctor …
Why Does Drug Reporting Suck?
Jack Schafer asks the important question. Short answer: Because it always has.
Another Insurgent Down
Hooray! Radley Balko reports that another insurgent was gunned down in the struggle of our times, the War on Drugs War on Your Neighbor® Global Struggle Against Killer Weed®: Police seized 2 ounces of marijuana at the home of Anthony Diotaiuto after shooting him 10 times, according to information on the drug raid released Tuesday. …
The War on Your Neighbor- Meth Edition
John Tierney picks up where Jack Shafer left off in his attempts to debunk the hysteria about meth use and abuse, and he pens a great editorial in the NY Times: Amphetamines can certainly do harm and are a fad in some places. But there’s little evidence of a new national epidemic from patterns of …
Misplaced Priorities and Power Grabs
More Republican perfidy, as Henry Hyde inserts vague measures into the House version of the Patriot Act that would create massive mandatory minimums for ‘narco-terrorism.’ TalkLeft has the details. And the War on Drugs War on Your Neighbor® continues in earnest.
Defending Abuse
There is, however, no way I can come up with any way to put a positive spin on ths administration decision: The Bush administration in recent days has been lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” of detainees, from hiding …