A liquor store in Baltimore is being forced to close because a man was killed there and drug dealers congregate. Here’s the story in the Sun. I’m of mixed feelings. Liquor stores in the ghetto are hardly the most sympathetic businesses. But if they were all shut down, it’s not like the neighborhood’s problems would…
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Oops. Sorry. Not really. The story from the Baltimore Sun is here. This is Sector One in the Eastern, for those who care.
The Washington Postreports: “A growing number of teenagers say it’s easier to illegally obtain prescription drugs than to buy beer or marijuana.” 19 percent, to be exact (according to the survey from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuseat Columbia University). 25% say marijuana is the easiest, with 43 percent saying they could buy…
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Australia police confiscated 15 million pills of ecstasy. That’s a lot of dancing! The ecstasy was hidden in cans from Italy, supposedly of canned tomatoes. What’s amazing about hauls of these huge sizes is just how little they matter. Why, what if all that ecstasy had gotten through?! I mean just think, every shipment before…
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If you want to keep a bad drug raid from hitting the papers, I guess you shouldn’t do it to prominent white folk (see picture). Doug Donovan in the Baltimore Sun reports: [The Mayor of Berwyn Hights, Prince George County, Maryland] Calvo’s home was raided by the county Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and narcotics officers…
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Don’t forget to buy the current issue of U.S. News & World Report to see my piecein print.
This is crazy. I hate the war on drugs. Here’s part of the storyin the Washington Post. A police SWAT team raided the home of the mayor in the Prince George’s County town of Berwyn Heights on Tuesday, shooting and killing his two dogs, after he brought in a 32-pound package of marijuana that had…
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Cocaine Sustains War Despite Rebel Losses in Colombia …this is what drug prohibition does. From the New York Times.
I just chased two junkies off my stoop! This is, as they say, not that kind of neighborhood. Plus this block has something like four active and former cops living on it. I’m sitting here writing about drug legalization in my basement office, and I hear two guys outside the window. One goes on my…
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Me and Lee Brown (former Houston mayor, New York Police Commissioner, and federal Drug Czar) mano-a-mano in a no-holds-barred cage match! (Also known as 700 words in U.S. News & World Report.) I think I kick his ass. But then I would think that, wouldn’t I? And it’s not really a fair cage match. He…
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