This is huge. While I would like all drugs to be regulated, for now I’ll settle for a real debate on the merits of legalizing marijuana. To me it’s a amazing that simply debatingsuch an issue has been taboo. At least until now. Why? Because prohibitionists are going to lose this debate. I’ll give Schwarzenegger…
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Joba Cahmberlain’s mother, Jacqueline Standley, was arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska. Read Tony Newman’s take on the situation: America likes to promote itself as the “home of the free” but, unfortunately, we have the embarrassing honor of being known as the incarceration nation. … We lock up more people on drug charges than Western Europe locks…
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The Obama administration said it favors shorter jail sentences for crimes involving crack cocaine. … Under current law, a person caught with 500 grams of powder cocaine gets the mandatory minimum sentence of five years, while it takes only five grams of crack cocaine to trigger the same sentence. … “Our stance on this is…
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There’s a one-day conference on Safe Injection Facilities (a legal place where addicts can shoot up) at John Jay College on May 22, 2009. The conference organizer is looking for somebody to provide a law enforcement perspective. Any police out there interested in talking about what police officers think about such programs? Email Rick Curtis.…
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In the New York Times. Instead of fighting a war we can’t win, we could buy the drugs. Burn it if we want. Sell it if we’re smart. It would be cheaper and better than sending soldiers into harm’s way. Perhaps just $300,000,000 a year. That’s what they say the Taliban makes in drug profits…
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I wishit weren’t always the Narcs. And now, because I’m older and wiser (and somewhat shamed by comments to other posts), I’ll add that it isn’t allnarcs. Most narcotic officers do their job and do it well. But corruption always has a vice link. Always. Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker write in the Philadelphia Daily…
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I don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed I love ViceMagazine. It’s anti-consumer attitude is completely and unashamedly support by consumer culture and slutty American Apparel ads. I don’t know how to describe Vice so I won’t. Let’s just say it’s eclectic and, among other things, sometimes provides a wonderfully unsanitized view of…
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Eight-term Iowa Republican Congressman Tom Latham is asked about LEAP, a group of former law enforcement agents who support drug legalization. He responds, “They’re probably a bunch of old potheads.” Don’t like the message? Disparage the messenger. That’s what they call an ad hominem attack. Maybe he should get to know us. Of well, you…
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They say it’s a success. Here’s a report from the Cato Institute.
I haven’t listened yet, but I assume it’s good. From NPR.