In Washington state, it’s officially 24 ounces and 15 plants. That’s a lot of marijuana. In Holland, by the way, you’re only allowed to have 6 plants. And a “coffee shop,” the place that legally sellsmarijuana, is only supposed to hold 16 ounces at any given times (but for practical reasons, that limit is often…
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But that means that 40% support mandatory prison terms for non-violent drug offenses. Still I guess it’s less than half. Read the story in the Christian Science Monitor.
The Agitator has a story about a drug raid gone amok. I had never heard about Ryan Frederick or Detective Jarrod Shivers. There is so much I don’t like about this: the war on drugs, a bad CI (confidential informant), a drug raid, and (most of all) a dead police officer. I hate the war…
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Jack Cole, the founder of LEAP, has an op-ed in today’s Boston Globe. WAR AND RACE dominate the presidential campaign, but one nation-shaping war with profound racial consequences eludes the political radar: the drug war. I was a frontline soldier in this self-perpetuating, ineffectual effort that has swallowed more than a trillion tax dollars and…
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A federal a local task force, HIDTA (“High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area”) busted down 27 doors in what must have been a very long night’s work. I hope people feel safer.
“Tens of thousands protested drug violence this weekend. Many blame the president.” Here’s the story by Sara Miller Llana in The Christian Science Monitor. In August alone, the teenage son of a Mexican businessman was found dead in the trunk of a car, after being kidnapped at a fake police checkpoint; a dozen decapitated bodies…
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George Washington, in his 1796 farwell address, warned about unnecessary foreign entanglements: The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good…
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Sometimes I kind of feel sorry for these guys. From the Boston Globe. The New England Mafia just is not what it used to be. In what would be an unusual move for a man of his rank, the family’s reputed underboss, Carmen “The Cheese Man” DiNunzio, is accused of personally delivering a $10,000 bribe…
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I am proudly liberal. I am not an economic libertarian or social conservative. With that, I heard Ron Paul interviewed on National Public Radio yesterday. Of course like any politician, he was playing to his audience. On NPR, he’s talking about ending the war in Iraq and not, say, overturning Roe v. Wade. But with…
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Thanks to the War on Drugs, submarines are slipping undetected into the U.S. The Boston Globe has the latest story.