Tam: I knew that the overdose situation was getting dire, but according to a spot I just caught on Today, Ohio is apparently on pace for ten thousand overdose deaths this year. Wow. Kind of puts the alleged specter of gun violence into perspective.

So, soon, you’ll have to provide ID and get registered to buy medicine for diarrhea?

Good for Obama, commuting non violent drug offenders.

So, the police in GA went and got their no knock raid on against a drug dealer. Instead of doing the safer thing and going after the guy while he was, say, on his way to work or to run errands. But those safer tactics don’t justify police budgets for ninja gear. The drug dealer […]

Sums the whole thing up: According to the DEA, then, marijuana prohibition has driven people to “easily available” but more dangerous alternatives. The solution? More prohibition!

That’s a lot of gear and manpower to get a sack of weed.

It’s not going away because lobbying for marijuana prohibition makes lobbyists rich. And follow the money: Some of the groups who want to keep the drug illegal are police unions that want more members to pay more dues. One of the primary sources for cash for more policing activities are Federal grants for penalizing illegal […]

The connection

The war on some drugs is responsible for the militarization of the police. There’s a time for the police to put on ninja gear and get all tactical. But that should not be SOP. That makes me unpatriotic.

Looking for iodine? Too bad. Seems it’s going the way of decongestants because of the war on drugs. What you do instead of something.

Police officer signs petition for legalizing pot, gets fired.

News Channel 5 notices that drug stops are a revenue measure: Glad to see the press reporting on stuff like this.

Says Jeffrey Miron. True. Have you seen how ATF operates? In fact, there’s a blog called just that.

Grandmother arrested for buying cold medicine.

We’re losing the war: A group of police and judges who want to legalize drugs pointed to new FBI numbers released today as evidence that the “war on drugs” is a failure that can never be won. The data, from the FBI’s “Crime in the United States” report, shows that in 2008 there were 1,702,537 […]

Kinda scary: Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man. Armed kidnappers snatch victims from cars and even a local shopping mall across the Phoenix valley for ransom, turning the sun-baked city into the “kidnap capital” of the United States. It’s […]

So, we’ve had police raiding wrong homes and killing people. We’ve had criminals raiding homes acting like police to make robbing them easy. Now, we have police raiding homes and robbing people: Two former police officers were convicted in federal court Wednesday of participating in a robbery ring that disguised home invasions as drug raids.

Seems that the .gov would rather let Angel Raich die an agonizing death than smoke a little weed. Jed says it for me: You know the drill; even if the state in which your reside and smoke has legalized medical use of marijuana, the feds can still bust your ass. It is a disgrace and […]

Seen at Joe’s: A 80 year old man was shot and killed by undercover police after he told them to leave his property. He brandished a gun and they shot and killed him. Witnesses say the officers never told him they were undercover. One difference this time is that the police are admitting their error: […]

The feds have raided marijuana facilities in California, some of which produce the drug for medical purposes in compliance with state law. I thought Republican administrations were supposed to be about the federalism?

That’s what Chuck is fond of saying. But there are times when they don’t take prisoners. Drug warriors rely on bogus tips from paid informants and raid the wrong house or put on their gay little ninja outfits or use excessive force. And someone dies. Pete has a memorial page for drug war casualties. Well, […]

Eh, what’s the diff? You’re with us or against us, right.

Laurie Kellman: Suffer from springtime allergies? You could be among the first affected by the USA Patriot Act poised for final congressional passage this week. Besides terrorism, the bill takes aim at the production of methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that cannot be manufactured without a key ingredient of everyday cold and allergy medicines. The […]

Over at Drug War Rant, comes this tale: Rebecca Doussan (age 26) and her twin sister Rachel were injecting cocaine. Rebecca left the apartment to get some more, and when she returned, discovered her sister drowned in the bathtub, with the water still running and the bathroom door locked. The autopsy found that Smith died […]

Pete reports that weed is now the drug of choice for financing terror: Saudi security sources said Sunni insurgents have been smuggling illegal drugs from Iraq to Saudi Arabia to finance insurgency attacks against coalition forces. The sources said the drugs being smuggling now tend to be cannabis. “In the space of one year, border […]

Drug War Rant tells us that the New Jersey police and the DEA swat teams raided the wrong house. For the second time. In four months: A State Police SWAT team and a swarm of federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed a four-family home in Newark on Tuesday, kicking down doors, waving guns and ransacking […]

Via Eric, comes this: Walgreen Co. has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle claims it broke state and federal laws by failing to monitor sales of over-the-counter cold medicine that can be used to make methamphetamine, authorities said Thursday. The company also agreed to spend $1 million to monitor purchases of this medicine. It […]

Junior has the sniffles. The Mrs. called the pediatrician to ask what to do about it and he stated to give her the orange Triaminic. No problem since she was going to Target anyway to pick up other stuff. While there The Mrs. discovers that, because Triaminic is now regulated like Sudafed since someone might […]

In Oregon, you may soon need a doctor’s prescription for Sudafed: Oregon would be the first state in the nation to fight the spread of methamphetamine by requiring prescriptions for some cold medications under legislation that passed the House on Wednesday. The 55-4 vote sent House Bill 2485 to the Senate, which unanimously approved a […]

Espo made the mistake of buying Sudafed. It’s getting to the point where people would just rather be sick than be sick of their government.