Well, that’s my general position on the issue, presuming they’re not violent. But a simple question for the hardcore drug warriors out there.

Chris Christie would rather people die than give up a drug bust. Doesn’t want to look all soft on crime, you know.

Yup. Money and bureaucrats with power.

States decriminalize recreational use of weed. Obama’s DOJ will crush them for that.

Penn Jillette goes after the Obama administration for its hypocrisy.

Pat Robertson say decriminalize marijuana. No, really.

Rand Paul blocks bans on synthetic drugs due to prison sentence length.

In El Paso.

It’s getting quite tyrannical. Woman, who cares for the elderly and disabled, goes to Alabama to buy Sudafed, since she needs a prescription in Mississippi. While there, she had other family members each buy a box. May as well get a supply of medicine to keep your family healthy. Now, she’s accused attempting to make […]

They say the darnedest things.

Hope and change: Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal

Scary

A Mexican military helicopter hovers over a Texas neighborhood.

Good news: The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good […]

Folks are buying American. Weed that is. 80% of Puerto Rico Murders Called Drug-Related

Xrlqy Wrlqy says: drugs have become a religion on both sides. On the one hand, drug prohibitionists have an annoying tendency to ignore the fact that prohibiting a substance causes the price to skyrocket, thereby creating the motive underlying most “drug-related” crime. On the other, legalization and decriminalization advocates have an equally annoying tendency to […]

It’s having an impact. Seems there’s a cocaine shortage. Victory is at hand in only 240 more years!

A video of Ron Paul stating we should end the drug war. Now, I don’t think Ron Paul has a chance in Hell of winning the election. But I am glad that someone is talking about this issue. I’m also surprised since this is an issue that is usually verboten at political debates because it’s […]

Drug War Rant has a commercial about it.

Kopel: During the recent war against Israel, Hezbollah used night vision equipment which had been supplied by Iran, as detailed in a new article by the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs. Iran had obtained the equipment from the United Kingdom to “bolster Iranian efforts to combat heroin smuggling across the Afghan border as part […]

Pete notes Citizen Against Government Waste isn’t a fan of the drug czar: As the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), established in 1988 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, approaches its eighteenth year of existence, it continues to demonstrate its inability to either achieve its core objectives or function efficiently. … The government also […]

Pete Guthier, aka Drug War Rant, has put up a wiki voting guide so we can keep track of where candidates stand on the drug war. There’s no content on it yet, but with Pete’s involvement, you know it will soon be a valuable resource.

Not blogged about it because it infuriates me. But apparently some Campbell County deputies tortured some drug dealer and it was caught on tape. I haven’t listened to it as I can’t really stand to hear that crap. I perused the transcripts and it’s quite hideous. Blogs covering the issue are AC, gunner, Blake, and […]

Pete has a long post on the drug war.

I mentioned that Oregon politicos were pondering requiring prescriptions for cough medicine to prevent the meth epidemic (EPIDEMIC, AARRGGHH!). Well, they did it: Oregonians just got “safer” today (and don’t worry, YOU’RE next!) with the passage of a new law to make “certain cough medicines” (“certain”, as in the ones that actually WORK that have […]

It’s good to see the MSM addressing the serious concerns regarding the war on drugs. It’d be nicer if we could get our politicians to seriously look at it. John Tierney: It’s the same pattern observed during Prohibition, when illicit stills would blow up, and there was a rise in deaths from alcohol poisoning. Far […]

Pete reports some pretty disheartening news. The US spent money and resources to train Mexican drug warriors as commandos to stop (i.e., kill) drug dealers. The problem with this is that drugs are lucrative so the commandos switched sides and are headed to the border: a group of rogue Mexican military commandos may be headed […]

The average person likely, in the pre-dawn hours, cannot distinguish a burglary from a police raid. That is what happened to Cheryl Noel: Police raided a home in the Baltimore area and arrested Charles Noel, 51, Matthew Noel, 19, and Sarah Betz, 19. In the process of the raid, two officers opened the door to […]

Today’s must read. And more here.

And release the POWs. 14-Year Trend of Rising Opioid Deaths Reversed in Colorado After Marijuana Legalization. Yeah, correlation and all that. But this wouldn’t surprise me.