I’m watching this show on medical marijuana on CNN while waiting on Game of Thrones, and guess who figures prominently as anti-marijuana: As a hard-partying teenager, Patrick Kennedy met President Reagan at a fundraiser for the JFK Library, a meeting captured in a photograph that the former Rhode Island congressman now hangs in his home …
The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Grand Marshal of the Fail Parade (Open Thread)
Looks like Chris Christie, who will never, ever be president, is trying to stake out a position as the biggest dick in the GOP primary: Maybe it’ll distract people from the abuse of power thing. Or not. We’re watching the Marvel “Daredevil” series on Netflix. It’s pretty interesting so far. What are you up …
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President Obama on “The Wire” and the “War on Drugs”
President Obama talks TV and the human devastation caused by the misguided war on drugs with “The Wire” creator David Simon. He really gets it. And he and AG for Life Eric Holder have actually done something about it, though much more remains to be done. I know some of y’all will call me a …
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John Oliver Gets Results
For those of you who did not see it or who may have forgotten about it, one of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight episodes had a blistering piece on the police effectively engaging in legalized theft through the asset forfeiture programs. Eric Holder, today: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and …
New York’s Finest
This is appalling: A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas. The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc …
Open Thread: Thanks A Bunch, Stoners!
It would be nice to think this was a cherry-picked, deliberately slanted story, but it’s in the bloody Guardian, yesterday: “With weed off the agenda, Colorado pot cafe patrons lose burning desire to vote“: There was an outbreak of giggles in America’s first legal marijuana cafe when I asked the question. “So … is anyone …
A New Low for Law Enforcement
I swear to goodness, the feds work like the Sons of Anarchy MC, only more duplicitous and without a code of honor: The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right to impersonate a young woman online by creating a Facebook page in her name without her …