There was a bit of discussion of teenage drug use in my post on Boyhood a couple of days ago, so I thought this story and graph about the kids in America was interesting. Kids just aren’t drinking as much as they used to, and pot use over the last decade is flat-ish or down …
The War on Your Neighbor, aka the War on Drugs
Root Cause
By now you have heard that Attorney General Holder, Claire McCaskill, Rand Paul, and others have all called for the demilitarization of America’s police, and Rep. Hank Johnson plans to introduce a bill limiting military weapons being transferred to municipalities: A Democratic congressman plans to introduce a bill to restrict a Defense Department program that …
Monday Evening Open Thread: “America’s Prisons Are Broken”
. … with special appearances from adorable puppets, and clips from Sen. Al Franken, also venal Arizona pols and Florida Gov. Rick “Bat Boy” Scott! A small ray of hope, from NYMag: In a move to address the absurdly overcrowded American prison system, where about half of those locked up are in for drug crimes, …
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Getting Better All the Time
Apparently MoDo did do research before she ate the demon weed, and just chose to ignore the advice she was given: So given Dowd’s awful experience with her overdose — which was so potent that she wrote in her June 3 column, “As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no …
What She Said
Jeralynn Merritt at TalkLeft nails what I was getting at last night regarding that idiot MoDo: What she should have written: “I went to Colorado and decided to get high. I was stupid and did no research or fact-checking. I asked no questions. I just started eating, and then ate some more. I got really …
Mo-Do in the Sky with Diamonds
Maybe you shouldn’t do drugs before figuring out what you are getting into, you jackass: The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child. Sitting in my hotel room in Denver, I nibbled off the end and then, when nothing happened, nibbled some more. I …
“Kids are Different Today”
The average heroin user is white, mid-20s, and living in the suburbs or the country (via): Our data show that the demographic composition of heroin users entering treatment has shifted over the last 50 years such that heroin use has changed from an inner-city, minority-centered problem to one that has a more widespread geographical distribution, …